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  • 标题:Agonist-independent activation of acetylcholine receptor channels by protein kinase A phosphorylation
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  • 作者:A V Ferrer-Montiel ; M S Montal ; M Díaz-Muñoz
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:1991
  • 卷号:88
  • 期号:22
  • 页码:10213-10217
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.88.22.10213
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Protein phosphorylation is a ubiquitous and one of the most effective means of regulating protein activity. Receptor phosphorylation is a key event in signal transduction. The question, therefore, that arises is whether this modulatory mechanism might produce functional changes in a membrane receptor in the absence of its naturally occurring ligand. To examine this issue, single-channel properties of purified acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) from Torpedo californica reconstituted in lipid bilayers were studied in the absence of ACh in both unphosphorylated preparations and after in vitro phosphorylation by a purified catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A). Notably, the spontaneous open-channel probability of phosphorylated AChRs is significantly higher than that of unphosphorylated AChRs. Channel activation by protein kinase A is correlated with AChR phosphorylation and is abolished by alpha-bungarotoxin. Analysis of probability distributions of the open dwell times indicates that, similar to unphosphorylated AChR has two distinct open states, short- and long-lived. The frequency of occurrence of the long openings over the short and the magnitude of both time constants increase after phosphorylation, as they do with agonist concentration. Thus, phosphorylation of AChR gamma and delta subunits activates AChR channel opening in the absence of ligand binding. This result is compatible with the notion that protein phosphorylation may effectively act as an intracellular ligand with the phosphorylation sites envisioned as cytoplasmic ligand binding sites.
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