Sodium channels develop a tyrosine phosphatase complex
Michael W. Salter
& Yu Tian Wang
The authors are in the Programme in Brain and Behaviour,
University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University
Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8,
Canada. mike.salter@utoronto.ca or y.t.wang@utoronto.ca
A new study shows that sodium channels interact with receptor-like
tyrosine phosphatase , which increases sodium currents and may also
help localize the channels.