The skeletal muscle calcium release channel: coupled O2 sensor and NO signaling functions.
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Journal Article
Ion channels have been studied extensively in ambient O2 tension (pO2), whereas tissue PO2 is much lower. The skeletal muscle calcium release channel/ryanodine receptor (RyR1) is one prominent example. Here we report that PO2 dynamically controls the redox state of 6-8 out of 50 thiols in each RyR1 subunit and thereby tunes the response to NO. At physiological pO2, nanomolar NO activates the channel by S-nitrosylating a single cysteine residue. Among sarcoplasmic reticulum proteins, S-nitrosylation is specific to RyR1 and its effect on the channel is calmodulin dependent. Neither activation nor S-nitrosylation of the channel occurs at ambient PO2. The demonstration that channel cysteine residues subserve coupled O2 sensor and NO regulatory functions and that these operate through the prototypic allosteric effector calmodulin may have general implications for the regulation of redox-related systems.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Eu, JP; Sun, J; Xu, L; Stamler, JS; Meissner, G
Published Date
- August 18, 2000
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 102 / 4
Start / End Page
- 499 - 509
PubMed ID
- 10966111
Pubmed Central ID
- 10966111
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0092-8674
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)00054-4
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States