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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 1999, 19(12):4847-4854

Mapping the Agonist Binding Site of the GABAA Receptor: Evidence for a beta -Strand

Andrew J. Boileau, Amy R. Evers, Anson F. Davis, and Cynthia Czajkowski

Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

GABAA receptors, along with the receptors for acetylcholine, glycine, and serotonin, are members of a ligand-gated ion channel superfamily (Ortells and Lunt, 1995). Because of the paucity of crystallographic information for these ligand-gated channels, little is known about the structure of their binding sites or how agonist binding is transduced into channel gating. We used the substituted cysteine accessibility method to obtain secondary structural information about the GABA binding site and to systematically identify residues that line its surface. Each residue from alpha 1 Y59 to K70 was mutated to cysteine and expressed with wild-type beta 2 subunits in Xenopus oocytes or HEK 293 cells. The sulfhydryl-specific reagent N-biotinylaminoethyl methanethiosulfonate (MTSEA-Biotin) was used to covalently modify the cysteine-substituted residues. Receptors with cysteines substituted at positions alpha 1 T60, D62, F64, R66, and S68 reacted with MTSEA-Biotin, and alpha 1 F64C, R66C, and S68C were protected from reaction by agonist. We conclude that alpha 1 F64, R66, and S68 line part of the GABA binding site. The alternating pattern of accessibility of consecutive engineered cysteines to reaction with MTSEA-Biotin indicates that the region from alpha 1 Y59 to S68 is a beta -strand.

Key words: GABA; GABAA receptor; binding site; substituted cysteine accessibility method; beta -strand; cysteine mutagenesis; molecular model


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