Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Palmitoylation targets the calcineurin phosphatase to the phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase complex at the plasma membrane

  • Idil Ulengin-Talkish,
  • Matthew A. H. Parson,
  • Meredith L. Jenkins,
  • Jagoree Roy,
  • Alexis Z. L. Shih,
  • Nicole St-Denis,
  • Gergo Gulyas,
  • Tamas Balla,
  • Anne-Claude Gingras,
  • Péter Várnai,
  • Elizabeth Conibear,
  • John E. Burke,
  • Martha S. Cyert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26326-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Calcineurin — the Ca2+ regulated phosphatase and target of immunosuppressants — regulates GPCR-mediated phospholipid signaling at the plasma membrane. Here the authors show that CNAβ1 (a poorly studied isoform of the calcineurin catalytic subunit) is targeted to the plasma membrane through palmitoylation to dephosphorylate and promote PI4KA complex activity.