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Department of Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. p.viard@ucl.ac.uk
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) has been shown to enhance native voltage-dependent calcium channel (Ca(v)) currents both in myocytes and in neurons; however, the mechanism(s) responsible for this regulation were not known. Here we show that PI3K promotes the translocation of GFP-tagged Ca(v) channels to the plasma membrane in both COS-7 cells and neurons. We show that the effect of PI3K is mediated by Akt/PKB and specifically requires Ca(v)beta(2) subunits. The mutations S574A and S574E in Ca(v)beta(2a) prevented and mimicked, respectively, the effect of PI3K/Akt-PKB, indicating that phosphorylation of Ser574 on Ca(v)beta(2a) is necessary and sufficient to promote Ca(v) channel trafficking.
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