Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Structure of the human sodium leak channel NALCN in complex with FAM155A

  • Jiongfang Xie,
  • Meng Ke,
  • Lizhen Xu,
  • Shiyi Lin,
  • Jin Huang,
  • Jiabei Zhang,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jianping Wu,
  • Zhen Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19667-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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NALCN, a sodium leak channel, plays a key role in regulating the resting membrane potential and controlling neuronal excitability. Here the authors report a cryo-EM structure of human NALCN in complex with FAM155A, that with complementary functional analyses provide insights on its ion selectivity, voltage sensing and specific interactions with auxiliary subunits.