Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24912149›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Molecular determinants of Hv1 proton channel inhibition by guanidine derivatives.

Liang Hong, Iris H Kim, Francesco Tombola

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Modulators of the Human Voltage-Gated Proton Channel HPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  5. Hv1 channel in immune cells and pharmacology.Pharmacological research · 2025
    Review
  6. Validation of HvFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Identification of a Novel Structural Class of HJournal of chemical information and modeling · 2024
    Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Inhibition of the HFrontiers in immunology · 2024
    Article
  12. Trapping Charge Mechanism in Hv1 Channels (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Fifty years of gating currents and channel gating.The Journal of general physiology · 2023
    Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. The Voltage-Gated Hv1 HInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Article
  19. Review
  20. Article

6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liang HongDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
Iris H KimDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
Francesco TombolaDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 ftombola@uci.edu.
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Permeation and Gating of Voltage-Sensing DomainsR01GM098973 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI TOMBOLA, FRANCESCO · 2011 to 2025
$4.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098973NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM098973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The voltage-gated proton channel Hv1 plays important roles in proton extrusion, pH homeostasis, and production of reactive oxygen species in a variety of cell types. Excessive Hv1 activity increases proliferation and invasiveness in cancer cells and worsens brain damage in ischemic stroke. The channel is composed of two subunits, each containing a proton-permeable voltage-sensing domain (VSD) and lacking the pore domain typical of other voltage-gated ion channels. We have previously shown that the compound 2-guanidinobenzimidazole (2GBI) inhibits Hv1 proton conduction by binding to the VSD from its intracellular side. Here, we examine the binding affinities of a series of 2GBI derivatives on human Hv1 channels mutated at positions located in the core of the VSD and apply mutant cycle analysis to determine how the inhibitor interacts with the channel. We identify four Hv1 residues involved in the binding: aspartate 112, phenylalanine 150, serine 181, and arginine 211. 2GBI appears to be oriented in the binding site with its benzo ring pointing to F150, its imidazole ring inserted between residue D112 and residues S181 and R211, and the guanidine group positioned in the proximity of R211. We also identify a modified version of 2GBI that is able to reach the binding site on Hv1 from the extracellular side of the membrane. Understanding how compounds like 2GBI interact with the Hv1 channel is an important step to the development of pharmacological treatments for diseases caused by Hv1 hyperactivity.

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedGuanidinesHumansIon Channel GatingIon ChannelsXenopus laevis2-benzimidazolylguanidineGuanidinesHVCN1 protein, humanIon ChannelsHVCN1 blockermacrophagemicroglial cell

Identifiers

PMID24912149
PMCPMC4103315
OpenAlexW2027551150

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.