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SLEEPLESS, a Ly-6/neurotoxin family member, regulates the levels, localization and activity of Shaker.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Jan 2010
Wu Mark N, Joiner William J, Dean Terry, Yue Zhifeng, Smith Corinne J, Chen Dechun, Hoshi Toshinori, Sehgal Amita, Koh Kyunghee
Abstract excerpt
Sleep is a whole-organism phenomenon accompanied by global changes in neural activity. We previously identified SLEEPLESS (SSS) as a glycosylphosphatidyl inositol-anchored protein required for sleep in Drosophila. Here we found that SSS is critical for regulating the sleep-modulating potassium channel Shaker. SSS and Shaker shared similar expression patterns in the brain and specifically affected each other's...
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