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ReviewFunction (Oxford, England)2025

From Selective Permeation to Physiology in Potassium Channels.

Sun-Joo Lee, Johanna Schillings, Reinier de Vries, Marcos Matamoros, Bert L de Groot, Colin G Nichols

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Review in Function (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sun-Joo LeeCenter for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases, and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6302-7986
Johanna SchillingsMax Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Reinier de VriesMax Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Marcos MatamorosCenter for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases, and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Bert L de GrootMax Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Colin G NicholsCenter for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases, and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4929-2134

Funding

Cardiovascular potassium channels: From molecular basis to disease therapeuticsR35HL171542 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Colin G Nichols · 2024 to 2026
$3.2M
K+ channel structural dynamics landscape: from selectivity to gatingK99GM147529 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MATAMOROS CAMPOS, MARCOS · 2023 to 2024
$250k
Structure/function analysis of understudied pH-sensitive Kir4.2 channels in vitro with conformation specific nanobodiesR03TR003670 · NCATS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, SUN JOO · 2021 to 2021
$158k
NCATS NIH HHS R03 TR003670NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL171542NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM147529NIH HHS K99 GM147529NIH HHS R03 TR003670NIH HHS R35 HL171542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly K+-selective potassium channels are essential for electrical signaling. The high selectivity of most K+ channels, with relative K+: Na+ permeabilities being as high as 100-1000:1 arises from the conserved so-called K+ channel selectivity filter (SF). Structural and computational studies have shown how the SF forms multiple sites that coordinate K+, by mimicking the water dipoles that coordinate K+ ions in solution, and thermodynamically favoring the binding of K+ over Na+. Selective conduction of K+ ions then results from a "knock-on" mechanism, whereby entering ions destabilize the next ion in the file. This review highlights key biophysical and biochemical research that provides insights to the atomic details of these processes. It then discusses how mutations that alter K+ selectivity and permeation in different K+ channels underlie multiple simple and complex diseases, illustrating how selectivity and permeation are central to physiology and to pathophysiology and important for physiologists to be aware of.

Indexed as

PotassiumPotassium ChannelsAnimalsHumansIon Channel GatingMutationSodiumPotassiumPotassium ChannelsSodiummonogenic diseasepermeationpotassium channelselectivity

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PMID41172239
PMCPMC12658365

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