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Science 329 (5988): 182-186

Copyright © 2010 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Structure of the Human BK Channel Ca2+-Activation Apparatus at 3.0 Å Resolution

Peng Yuan, Manuel D. Leonetti, Alexander R. Pico,* Yichun Hsiung, Roderick MacKinnon{dagger}

Abstract: High-conductance voltage- and Ca2+-activated K+ (BK) channels encode negative feedback regulation of membrane voltage and Ca2+ signaling, playing a central role in numerous physiological processes. We determined the x-ray structure of the human BK Ca2+ gating apparatus at a resolution of 3.0 angstroms and deduced its tetrameric assembly by solving a 6 angstrom resolution structure of a Na+-activated homolog. Two tandem C-terminal regulator of K+ conductance (RCK) domains from each of four channel subunits form a 350-kilodalton gating ring at the intracellular membrane surface. A sequence of aspartic amino acids that is known as the Ca2+ bowl, and is located within the second of the tandem RCK domains, creates four Ca2+ binding sites on the outer perimeter of the gating ring at the "assembly interface" between RCK domains. Functionally important mutations cluster near the Ca2+ bowl, near the "flexible interface" between RCK domains, and on the surface of the gating ring that faces the voltage sensors. The structure suggests that the Ca2+ gating ring, in addition to regulating the pore directly, may also modulate the voltage sensor.

Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.

* Present address: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mackinn{at}rockefeller.edu

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