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. 2024:2796:271-289.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3818-7_16.

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry for Fragment-Based Analysis of Ion Channel Interactions

Crystal Archer  1
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Isothermal Titration Calorimetry for Fragment-Based Analysis of Ion Channel Interactions

Crystal Archer. Methods Mol Biol. 2024.

Abstract

Ion channels are membrane proteins that may also have intracellular and extracellular domains that interact with other ligands. In many cases, these interaction sites are highly mobile and may undergo changes in the configuration upon binding with regulatory signaling molecules. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is a powerful technique to quantify protein-ligand interactions of purified samples in solution. This chapter describes a fragment-based analysis method using ITC to quantify the interactions between a domain of the voltage-gated Kv7 channel and the calcium-regulated protein calmodulin. This example can be used to quantify the interactions between specific domains of other ion channels and their regulatory signaling proteins.

Keywords: Calmodulin; Fragment-based analysis; G-protein; Isothermal titration calorimetry; Kv7; Peptides.

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