YKC1 encodes the depolarization-activated K+ channel in the plasma membrane of yeast
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YKC1 encodes the depolarization-activated K+ channel in the plasma membrane of yeast
Abstract
Our previous patch-clamp studies showed that depolarization activates a K(+)-specific current in the plasma membrane of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae [Gustin et al. (1986) Science 233, 1195-1197]. The Yeast Genome Sequencing Project has now uncovered on the left arm of chromosome X an open reading frame (ORF) that predicts a 77-kDa protein reminiscent of a shaker-like alpha subunit with 6 membrane spans followed by a subunit with 2 spans. We found that deleting this ORF removes the yeast K+ current. Furnishing the ORF from plasmids restores or even greatly amplifies this current. These manipulations have no effects on the 40-pS mechanosensitive conductance also native to this membrane. Thus, this ORF, named YKC1 here, likely encodes a structure for the K(+)-specific channel of the yeast plasma membrane. This and other K+ channel subunits are compared and the possible uses of this gene in research are discussed. YKC1 has recently been shown by others to induce in frog oocytes a K+ current. Its activation is coupled to EK+ and its outward rectification depends on external divalent cations. We found the YKC1 channel in its native membrane activates at low voltages largely independent of EK+ and it remains so despite removal of divalents by chelation.
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