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Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-sensitive K + (K ATP ) channels are molecular sensors of cell metabolism. These hetero-octameric channels, comprising four inward rectifier K + channel subunits (Kir6.1 or Kir6.2) and four sulfonylurea receptor (SUR1 or SUR2A/B) subunits, detect metabolic changes via three classes of intracellular adenine nucleotide (ATP/ADP) binding site. One site, located on the Kir subunit, causes inhibition of the channel when ATP or ADP is bound. The other two sites, located on the SUR subunit, excite the channel when bound to Mg nucleotides. In pancreatic β cells, an increase in extracellular glucose causes a change in oxidative metabolism and thus turnover of adenine nucleotides in the cytoplasm. This leads to the closure of K ATP channels, which depolarizes the plasma membrane and permits Ca 2+ influx and insulin secretion. Many of the molecular details regarding the assembly of the K ATP complex, and how changes in nucleotide concentrations affect gating, have recently been uncovered by several single-particle cryo-electron microscopy structures of the pancreatic K ATP channel (Kir6.2/SUR1) at near-atomic resolution. Here, the author discusses the detailed picture of excitatory and inhibitory ligand binding to K ATP that these structures present and suggests a possible mechanism by which channel activation may proceed from the ligand-binding domains of SUR to the channel pore.

Cryo-electron microscopy structures and progress toward a dynamic understanding of KATP channels