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The receptor-like pseudokinase MRH1 interacts with the voltage-gated potassium channel AKT2
Author(s) -
Kamil Sklodowski,
Janin Riedelsberger,
Natalia Raddatz,
Gonzalo Riadi,
Julio Caballero,
Isabelle Chérel,
Waltraud X. Schulze,
Alexander Graf,
Ingo Drèyer
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
scientific reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.24
H-Index - 213
ISSN - 2045-2322
DOI - 10.1038/srep44611
Subject(s) - biology , transmembrane domain , microbiology and biotechnology , akt2 , potassium channel , transmembrane protein , akt1 , biochemistry , biophysics , signal transduction , receptor , pi3k/akt/mtor pathway
The potassium channel AKT2 plays important roles in phloem loading and unloading. It can operate as inward-rectifying channel that allows H + -ATPase-energized K + uptake. Moreover, through reversible post-translational modifications it can also function as an open, K + -selective channel, which taps a ‘potassium battery’, providing additional energy for transmembrane transport processes. Knowledge about proteins involved in the regulation of the operational mode of AKT2 is very limited. Here, we employed a large-scale yeast two-hybrid screen in combination with fluorescence tagging and null-allele mutant phenotype analysis and identified the plasma membrane localized receptor-like kinase MRH1/MDIS2 (AT4G18640) as interaction partner of AKT2. The phenotype of the mrh1-1 knockout plant mirrors that of akt2 knockout plants in energy limiting conditions. Electrophysiological analyses showed that MRH1/MDIS2 failed to exert any functional regulation on AKT2. Using structural protein modeling approaches, we instead gathered evidence that the putative kinase domain of MRH1/MDIS2 lacks essential sites that are indispensable for a functional kinase suggesting that MRH1/MDIS2 is a pseudokinase. We propose that MRH1/MDIS2 and AKT2 are likely parts of a bigger protein complex. MRH1 might help to recruit other, so far unknown partners, which post-translationally regulate AKT2. Additionally, MRH1 might be involved in the recognition of chemical signals.

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