Shiuan-Chen Lin, Chun Ma, Kao-Jung Chang, Han-Ping Cheong, Ming-Cheng Lee, Yuan-Tzu Lan, Chien-Ying Wang, Shih-Hwa Chiou, Teh-Ia Huo, Tsui-Kang Hsu, Ping-Hsing Tsai, Yi-Ping Yang
The with-no-lysine (WNK) kinase family, comprising four serine-threonine protein kinases (WNK1-4), were first linked to hypertension due to their mutations in association with pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII). WNK kinases regulate crucial blood pressure regulators, SPAK/OSR1, to mediate the post-translational modifications (PTMs) of their downstream ion channel substrates, such as sodium chloride co-transporter (NCC), epithelial sodium chloride (ENaC), renal outer medullary potassium channel (ROMK), and Na/K/2Cl co-transporters (NKCCs)...
September 2, 2022: Biomedicines