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Voltage-gated potassium channel proteins and stereoselective S-nitroso-L-cysteine signaling
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Voltage-gated potassium channel proteins and stereoselective S-nitroso-L-cysteine signaling

Benjamin Gaston, Laura Smith, Jurgen Bosch, James Seckler, Diana Kunze, Janna Kiselar, Nadzeya Marozkina, Craig A. Hodges, Patrick Wintrobe, Kellen McGee, …
JCI insight, Vol.5(18), e134174
09/17/2020
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.134174
PMCID: PMC7526540
PMID: 32790645
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https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.134174View
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Abstract

S-nitroso-L-cysteine (L-CSNO) behaves as a ligand. Its soluble guanylate cyclase-independent (sGC-independent) effects are stereoselective - that is, not recapitulated by S-nitroso-o-cysteine (D-CSNO) - and are inhibited by chemical congeners. However, candidate L-CSNO receptors have not been identified. Here, we have used 2 complementary affinity chromatography assays - followed by unbiased proteornic analysis - to identify voltage-gated K+ channel (Kv) proteins as binding partners for L-CSNO. Stereoselective L-CSNO-Kv interaction was confirmed structurally and functionally using surface plasrnon resonance spectroscopy; hydrogen deuterium exchange; and, in 101.1/Kv1.2/K beta 2-overexpressing cells, patch clamp assays. Remarkably, these sGCindependent L-CSNO effects did not involve S-nitrosylation of Kv proteins. In isolated rat and mouse respiratory control (petrosyl) ganglia, L-CSNO stereoselectively inhibited Kv channel function. Genetic ablation of Kv1.1 prevented this effect. In intact animals, L-CSNO injection at the level of the carotid body dramatically and stereoselectively increased minute ventilation while having no effect on blood pressure; this effect was inhibited by the L-CSNO congener S-methyl-L-cysteine. Kv proteins are physiologically relevant targets of endogenous L-CSNO. This may be a signaling pathway of broad relevance.
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