Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Phospholipid flippase ATP11C is endocytosed and downregulated following Ca2+-mediated protein kinase C activation

  • Hiroyuki Takatsu,
  • Masahiro Takayama,
  • Tomoki Naito,
  • Naoto Takada,
  • Kazuya Tsumagari,
  • Yasushi Ishihama,
  • Kazuhisa Nakayama,
  • Hye-Won Shin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01338-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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ATP11C is a flippase that uses ATP hydrolysis to translocate phospholipids at the plasma membrane. Here, the authors show that the activation of Ca2+-dependent protein kinase C increases ATP11C endocytosis thus downregulating phospholipid translocation.