IDENTIFICATION OF AN INTRACELLULAR DOMAIN OF THE SODIUM-CHANNEL HAVING MULTIPLE CAMP-DEPENDENT PHOSPHORYLATION SITES
- 25 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 262 (36), 17530-17535
Abstract
Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase catalyzes the incorporation of 3-4 mol of phosphate into the .alpha. subunit of rat brain sodium channels in vitro or in situ. Digestion of phosphorylated sodium channels with CNBr yielded three major phosphorylated fragments of 25, 31, and 33 kDa. These fragments were specifically immunoprecipitated with site-directed antisera establishing their location within an intracellular loop between the first and second homologous domains containing residues 448 to 630 of sodium channel R1 or residues 450-639 of sodium channel R11. Five of the seven major tryptic phosphopeptides generated from intact sodium channel .alpha. subunits were contained in each of the 25-, 31-, and 33-kDa CNBr fragments, indicating that most cAMP-dependent phosphorylation sites are in this domain. Since CNBr digestion of sodium channels which had been metabolically labeled with 32P in intact neurons yielded the same phosphorylated fragments, the phosphorylated region we have identified is the major location of phosphorylation in situ. Only serine residues were phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase in vitro, while approximately 16% of the phosphrylation in intact neurons was on threonine residues that must lie outside the domain we have identified. Since this domain is phosphorylated in intact neurons, our results show that it is located on the intracellular side of the plasma membrane. These results are considered with respect to models for the transmembrane orientation of the .alpha. subunit.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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