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MECHANISM OF APICAL K+ CHANNEL MODULATION IN PRINCIPAL RENAL TUBULE CELLS - EFFECT OF INHIBITION OF BASOLATERAL NA+-K+-ATPASE
Author(s): WANG WH, GEIBEL J, GIEBISCH G
Source: JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY    Volume: 101    Issue: 5    Pages: 673-694    Published: MAY 1993  
Times Cited: 58     References: 49     
Abstract: The effects of inhibition of the basolateral Na+-K+-ATPase (pump) on the apical low-conductance K+ channel of principal cells in rat cortical collecting duct (CCD) were studied with patch-clamp techniques. Inhibition of pump activity by removal of K+ from the bath solution or addition of strophanthidin reversibly reduced K+ channel activity in cell-attached patches to 36% of the control value. The effect of pump inhibition on K+ channel activity was dependent on the presence of extracellular Ca2+, since removal of Ca2+ in the bath solution abolished the inhibitory effect of 0 mM K+ bath. The intracellular [Ca2+] (measured with fura-2) was significantly increased, from 125 nM (control) to 335 nM (0 mM K+ bath) or 408 nM (0.2 mM strophanthidin), during inhibition of pump activity. In contrast, cell pH decreased only moderately, from 7.45 to 7.35. Raising intracellular Ca2+ by addition of 2 muM ionomycin mimicked the effect of pump inhibition on K+ channel activity. 0.1 mM amiloride also significantly reduced the inhibitory effect of the K+ removal. Because the apical low-conductance K channel in inside-out patches is not sensitive to Ca2+ (Wang, W., A. Schwab, and G. Giebisch. 1990. American Journal of Physiology. 259:F494-F502), it is suggested that the inhibitory effect of Ca2+ is mediated by a Ca2+-dependent signal transduction pathway. This view was supported in experiments in which application of 200 nM staurosporine, a potent inhibitor of Ca2+-dependent protein kinase C (PKC), markedly diminished the effect of the pump inhibition on channel activity. We conclude that a Ca2+-dependent protein kinase such as PKC plays a key role in the downregulation of apical low-conductance K+ channel activity during inhibition of the basolateral Na+-K+-ATPase.
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Reprint Address: WANG, WH (reprint author), YALE UNIV, SCH MED, DEPT CELLULAR & MOLEC PHYSIOL, 333 CEDAR ST, POB 3333, NEW HAVEN, CT 06510 USA
Publisher: ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS, 1114 FIRST AVE, 4TH FL, NEW YORK, NY 10021
Subject Category: Physiology
IDS Number: LC793
ISSN: 0022-1295
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