Mass spectrometry of intact membrane proteins: shifting towards a more native-like context

A Oluwole, D Shutin, JR Bolla - Essays in Biochemistry, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Integral membrane proteins are involved in a plethora of biological processes including
cellular signalling, molecular transport, and catalysis. Many of these functions are mediated …

Native MS-guided lipidomics to define endogenous lipid microenvironments of eukaryotic receptors and transporters

D Wu, H Tang, X Qiu, S Song, S Chen, CV Robinson - Nature Protocols, 2024 - nature.com
The mammalian membrane is composed of various eukaryotic lipids interacting with
extensively post-translationally modified proteins. Probing interactions between these …

Conformational trajectory of allosteric gating of the human cone photoreceptor cyclic nucleotide-gated channel

Z Hu, X Zheng, J Yang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels transduce chemical signals into electrical signals in
sensory receptors and neurons. They are activated by cGMP or cAMP, which bind to the …

Constitutive activation mechanism of a class C GPCR

J Shin, J Park, J Jeong, JH Lam, X Qiu, D Wu… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Class C G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are activated through binding of agonists to
the large extracellular domain (ECD) followed by rearrangement of the transmembrane …

Propofol rescues voltage-dependent gating of HCN1 channel epilepsy mutants

ED Kim, X Wu, S Lee, GR Tibbs, KP Cunningham… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels are essential for
pacemaking activity and neural signalling,. Drugs inhibiting HCN1 are promising candidates …

Studying Membrane Protein–Lipid Specificity through Direct Native Mass Spectrometric Analysis from Tunable Proteoliposomes

A Panda, C Brown, K Gupta - Journal of the American Society for …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Native mass spectrometry (nMS) has emerged as a key analytical tool to study the
organizational states of proteins and their complexes with both endogenous and exogenous …

PIP2 inhibits pore opening of the cyclic nucleotide-gated channel SthK

O Thon, Z Wang, PAM Schmidpeter… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The signaling lipid phosphatidylinositol-4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP2) regulates many
ion channels. It inhibits eukaryotic cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels while activating …

Structural basis for hyperpolarization-dependent opening of human HCN1 channel

V Burtscher, J Mount, J Huang, J Cowgill… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hyperpolarization and cyclic nucleotide (HCN) activated ion channels are critical for the
automaticity of action potentials in pacemaking and rhythmic electrical circuits in the human …

Direct regulation of the voltage sensor of HCN channels by membrane lipid compartmentalization

LJ Handlin, G Dai - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Ion channels function within a membrane environment characterized by dynamic lipid
compartmentalization. Limited knowledge exists regarding the response of voltage-gated …

Gating intermediates reveal inhibitory role of the voltage sensor in a cyclic nucleotide-modulated ion channel

X Gao, PAM Schmidpeter, V Berka, RJ Durham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding how ion channels gate is important for elucidating their physiological roles
and targeting them in pathophysiological states. Here, we used SthK, a cyclic nucleotide …