Phosphorylation-regulated Cl- channel in CHO cells stably expressing the cystic fibrosis gene - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1991 Aug 15;352(6336):628-31.

doi: 10.1038/352628a0.

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Phosphorylation-regulated Cl- channel in CHO cells stably expressing the cystic fibrosis gene

J A Tabcharani et al. Nature. 1991.

Abstract

A cyclic AMP-stimulated chloride conductance appears when the cystic fibrosis gene is expressed in non-epithelial cells by infection with recombinant viruses. Cyclic AMP-stimulated conductance in this system is mediated by the same ohmic, low-conductance Cl- channel as in human secretory epithelia, but control of this channel by phosphorylation has not been directly demonstrated. Here we report the appearance of the low-conductance Cl- channel in Chinese hamster ovary cells after stable transfection with the cystic fibrosis gene. The channel is regulated on-cell by membrane-permeant analogues of cAMP and off-cell by protein kinases A and C and by alkaline phosphatase. These results are further evidence that the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator is a Cl- channel which can be activated by specific phosphorylation events and inactivated by dephosphorylation; they reveal an unsuspected synergism between converging kinase regulatory pathways.

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