Sci. STKE, 4 September 2001
Vol. 2001, Issue 98, p. pe1
[DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.982001pe1]
PERSPECTIVES
Unzipping Ion Channels
Stacey Nee MacFarlane and
Irwin B. Levitan
The authors are at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: levitani{at}mail.med.upenn.edu
Abstract:
The functions of ion channels can be regulated by their phosphorylation state. Protein kinases and protein phosphatases tightly control the activity of channels, thereby regulating the flow of ions across cell membranes. Channel proteins and kinases or phosphatases can associate directly or through intermediate adaptor proteins. An interaction domain termed the leucine zipper (LZ), once thought to be unique to some families of transcription factors, has been identified in channel proteins and their cognate binding proteins. MacFarlane and Levitan discuss what roles LZ-containing proteins might have in controlling channel function.
Citation: S. N. MacFarlane, I. B. Levitan, Unzipping Ion Channels. Sci. STKE 2001, pe1 (2001).
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