title: Phosphorylation of SPICK2, an AKT2 channel homologue from Samanea motor cells.
abstract: SPICK2, a homologue of the weakly-inward-rectifying Shaker-like Arabidopsis K channel, AKT2, is a candidate K+-influx channel participating in light- and clock-regulated leaf movements of the legume, Samanea saman. Light and the biological clock regulate the in situ K+-influx channel activity differentially in extensor and flexor halves of the pulvinus (the S. saman leaf motor organ), and also-though differently-the transcript level of SPICK2 in the pulvinus. This disparity between the in situ channel activity versus its candidate transcript, along with the sequence analysis of SPICK2, suggest an in situ regulation of the activity of SPICK2, possibly by phosphorylation and/or by interaction with cAMP. Consistent with this (i) the activity of the voltage-dependent K+-selective fraction of the inward current in extensor and flexor cells was affected differentially in whole-cell patch-clamp assays promoting phosphorylation (using the protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid); (ii) several proteins in isolated plasma membrane-enriched vesicles of the motor cells underwent phosphorylation without an added kinase in conditions similar to patch-clamp; and (iii) the SPICK2 protein was phosphorylated in vitro by the catalytic subunit of the broad-range cAMP-dependent protein kinase. All of these results are consistent with the notion that SPICK2 is the K+-influx channel, and is regulated in vivo directly by phosphorylation.
authors.affiliation: The Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: Hadas
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Levi
authors.forename: Menachem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moshelion
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hedrich
authors.forename: Ilana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lotan
authors.forename: Arie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pick
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Naveh
authors.forename: Yael
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Libal
authors.forename: Nava
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moran
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002586:Cesium / Q000494:pharmacology; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000502:physiology; D007313:Insecta / Q000235:genetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D019319:Okadaic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D010766:Phosphorylation; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D024661:Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D024661:Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D002586:Cesium; D019319:Okadaic Acid; D000242:Cyclic AMP