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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2013 Aug 15;52(34):5708–5722. doi: 10.1021/bi400804z

Table 2.

Single-channel properties of MscS family members

Species Name Unitary conductance Ion selectivity (PCl : PK) Number of TMHsc Identity in the pore-lining domain + upper vestibule to EcMscS, %d References
Prokaryotes E. coli EcMscL a 3 nS 1 Non-selective 2 - Sukharev, 1994; Häse, 1995
EcMscS 1.2 nS 1/350 pS 5 1.2–3 3 100 Levina, 1999; Sukharev, 2002
EcMscK 1 nS 1 < EcMscS 11* 32 Martinac, 1987; Li, 2002
YjeP 250–400 pS 1 NR 11* 27 Edwards, 2012
YbdG b 350–400 pS 1 NR 5* 21 Schumann, 2010
YnaI ~ 100 pS 1 NR 5* 30 Edwards, 2012
YbiO ~ 850 pS 1 NR 12* 24 Edwards, 2012
S. pomeroyi MscSP 1.04 nS 2 1.4 3* 49 Petrov, 2013
T. tengcongensis TtMscS 134 pS 1 8.7 3 29 Zhang, 2013
C. glutamicum MscCG 328 pS 2 0.3 4 29 Börngen, 2010; Becker, 2012
M. jannashii MscMJLR 2 nS 3 0.2 5* 41 Kloda, 2001a,b
MscMJ 270 pS 3 0.16 5* 36 Kloda, 2001a
Eukaryotes C. reinhardtii MSC1 390 pS 4 7 5* 32 Nakayama, 2007
A. thaliana MSL10 103 pS 5 5.9 (PCl : PNa) 6* 18 Haswell, 2008; Maksaev, 2012
1

200 mM KCl, 90 mM MgCl2, 10 mM CaCl2, and 5 mM HEPES (pH 7.0)

2

250 mM KCl, 90 mM MgCl2, and 5 mM HEPES (pH 7.2)

3

200 mM KCl, 5 mM MgCl2, and 5 mM HEPES (pH 7.2)

4

200 mM KCl, 40 mM MgCl2, 10 mM CaCl2, 0.1 mM EDTA, and 5 mM HEPES-KOH (pH 7.2)

5

96 mM NaCl, 2 mM KCl, 2 mM CaCl2, 1 mM MgCl2, and 5 mM HEPES (pH 7.38)

6

100 mM KCl, 10 mM MgCl2, 10 mM HEPES-KOH (pH 7.4)

a

MscL is not a MscS homolog, added for reference

b

Channel activity was only shown for a V229A mutant of YbdG-encoded protein

c

number of transmembrane helices were predicted via TMHMM 2.0 server.

d

Alignments were made using Kalign algorithm in Unipro UGENE software

*

= Predicted

NR = not reported