Publication Date:
1993-09-10
Description:
The function of voltage-gated sodium channels that are responsible for action potential generation in mammalian brain neurons is modulated by phosphorylation by adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase (cA-PK) and by protein kinase C (PKC). Reduction of peak sodium currents by cA-PK in intact cells required concurrent activation of PKC and was prevented by blocking phosphorylation of serine 1506, a site in the inactivation gate of the channel that is phosphorylated by PKC but not by cA-PK. Replacement of serine 1506 with negatively charged amino acids mimicked the effect of phosphorylation. Conversion of the consensus sequence surrounding serine 1506 to one more favorable for cA-PK enhanced modulation of sodium currents by cA-PK. Convergent modulation of sodium channels required phosphorylation of serine 1506 by PKC accompanied by phosphorylation of additional sites by cA-PK. This regulatory mechanism may serve to integrate neuronal signals mediated through these parallel signaling pathways.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, M -- West, J W -- Numann, R -- Murphy, B J -- Scheuer, T -- Catterall, W A -- R01-NS15751/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- T32-GM07270/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1993 Sep 10;261(5127):1439-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8396273" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Action Potentials
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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CHO Cells
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Consensus Sequence
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Cricetinae
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
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Phosphorylation
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Protein Kinase C/*metabolism
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Protein Kinases/*metabolism
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Sodium/metabolism
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Sodium Channels/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
