Phosphorylation of a tyrosine at the N-terminus regulates the surface expression of GIRK5 homomultimers.

FEBS Lett

Departamento de Fisiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 04510 Mexico, DF.

Published: June 2005

The G protein-coupled inwardly rectifying GIRK5 and Delta5GIRK5 splicing variants do not express functional potassium channels. In contrast, Delta25GIRK5 forms functional homomultimers in Xenopus laevis oocytes. A tyrosine is present at the N-term of the non-functional isoforms. We studied the effect of endogenous tyrosine phosphorylation on the GIRK5 surface and functional expression. Unlike wild type channels, GIRK5Y16A and Delta5GIRK5Y16A mutants displayed inwardly rectifying currents and inhibitors of Src tyrosine kinase promoted the traffiking of GIRK5 to the cell surface. This is the first evidence that endogenous phosphorylation of a tyrosine residue in a GIRK channel inhibits its surface expression.

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