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Reconstitution of a Kv Channel into Lipid Membranes for Structural and Functional Studies
Published on: July 13, 2013
Modulation of coated vesicle chloride channel activity and acidification by reversible protein kinase A-dependent
A E Mulberg1, B M Tulk, M Forgac
1Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract:
We have previously shown that activity of a Cl- channel is required for acidification of clathrin-coated vesicles by the coated vesicle (H+)-ATPase (Arai, H., Pink, S. and Forgac, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 3075-3082). We demonstrate that activity of the coated vesicle Cl- channel is modulated by phosphorylation. Cl- conductance was measured in a reconstituted preparation of coated vesicle membrane proteins using the Cl(-)-sensitive fluorescence probe, 6-methoxy-N-(3-sulfopropyl)quinolinium. Treatment of coated vesicle membranes with alkaline phosphatase resulted in a 25 +/- 5% decrease in Cl- channel activity. A parallel decrease in ATP-dependent acidification of coated vesicles was also observed. The decrease in Cl- conductance and ATP-dependent acidification was reversed by treatment with protein kinase A and MgATP; the alkaline phosphatase inhibitor, sodium orthovanadate, blocked the inhibition of acidification. These results indicate that Cl- conductance in coated vesicles is modulated by a protein kinase A-dependent phosphorylation and that this modulation in turn affects ATP-dependent acidification.
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