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INACTIVATION of ion channels is important in the control of membrane excitability. For example, delayed-rectifier K+ channels, which regulate action potential repolarization, are inactivated only slowly, whereas A-type K+ channels, which affect action potential duration and firing frequency, have both fast and slow inactivation1. Fast inactivation of Na+ and K+ channels may result from the blocking of the permeation pathway by a positively charged cytoplasmic gate2 such as the one encoded by the first 20 amino acids of the Shaker B (ShB) K+ channel3, 4. We report here that mutation of five highly conserved residues between the proposed membrane-spanning segments S4 and S5 (also termed H4)5 of ShB affects the stability of the inactivated state and alters channel conductance. One such mutation stabilizes the inactivated state of ShB as well as the inactivated state induced in the delayed-rectifier type K+ channel drkl (ref. 6) by the cytoplasmic application of the ShB N-terminal peptide. The S4–S5 loop, therefore, probably forms part of a receptor for the inactivation gate and lies near the channel's permeation pathway.
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Isacoff, E., Jan, Y. & Jan, L. Putative receptor for the cytoplasmic inactivation gate in the Shaker K+ channel. Nature 353, 86–90 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/353086a0
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