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"Using immunocytochemistry and the cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) membrane protein as a trafficking reporter, we demonstrate that fusion of KCNQ2 carboxy-terminal tail is sufficient to target CD4 protein to the axonal surface whereas inhibition of calmodulin binding to KCNQ2 abolishes axonal surface expression of CD4 fusion proteins by retaining them in the endoplasmic reticulum."
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"In contrast, the A343D mutation, which blocked CaM binding to KCNQ2 (XREF_FIG) XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR, abolished surface and intracellular expression of HA-KCNQ3 and KCNQ2 channels at the AIS and distal axons (XREF_FIG, XREF_FIG) and reduced the surface " Axon and Dendrite " ratio to below 1 (XREF_FIG)."
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"Since the R353G mutation in KCNQ2 reduces CaM binding to heteromeric KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 channels only by 20% XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR, our results suggest that a greater degree of impairment in CaM binding to KCNQ2 is needed to prevent targeting of heteromeric channels to the axonal surface."
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"Although CaM can still interact with KCNQ3 subunits xref , xref , the A343D mutation, which abolished CaM binding to KCNQ2 ( xref ), prevented surface and intracellular expression of intact HA-KCNQ3/KCNQ2 channels at the AIS and distal axons ( xref – xref ), consistent with a recent study reporting altered neuronal distribution of heteromeric channels by the I340A mutation xref ."
sparser
"Using immunocytochemistry and the cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) membrane protein as a trafficking reporter, we demonstrate that fusion of KCNQ2 carboxy-terminal tail is sufficient to target CD4 protein to the axonal surface whereas inhibition of calmodulin binding to KCNQ2 abolishes axonal surface expression of CD4 fusion proteins by retaining them in the endoplasmic reticulum."
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"Although CaM can still interact with KCNQ3 subunits XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR, the A343D mutation, which abolished CaM binding to KCNQ2 (XREF_FIG), prevented surface and intracellular expression of intact HA-KCNQ3 and KCNQ2 channels at the AIS and distal axons (XREF_FIG - XREF_FIG), consistent with a recent study reporting altered neuronal distribution of heteromeric channels by the I340A mutation XREF_BIBR."
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"Since A-kinase-anchoring protein (AKAP) 79 XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR regulates CaM binding to KCNQ2 XREF_BIBR and serves as an adaptor protein for CaM and PKC XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR, the mechanism responsible for CaM mediated trafficking of KCNQ channels to the axonal surface may well converge with the ability of CaM to modulate PKC dependent inhibition of M-current via AKAP79/150 XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR and PIP 2 XREF_BIBR."
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"Both WT and dominant-negative CaM bind to the C terminus of KCNQ2 ( xref ) and (a) mutations in KCNQ2 that affect CaM binding, (b) expression of dominant-negative CaM, or (c) expression of a “CaM sponge” lead to retention of KCNQ2 homomeric channels in the ER ( xref ; xref ; xref )."
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"The process appears to require at least two steps; the first involves the transient association of CaM with KCNQ2, and in the second, the complex adopts an "active" conformation that is more stable and is that which confers the capacity to exit the endoplasmic reticulum."