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Uchino T, Zheng MQ, Wang Y, Ono K. Cardiac specific transcription factor Csx/Nkx2.5 regulates transient-outward K + channel expression in pluripotent P19 cell-derived cardiomyocytes. J Physiol Sci 2020; 70:20. [PMID: 32213161 PMCID: PMC7096375 DOI: 10.1186/s12576-020-00748-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The homeobox-containing gene Csx/Nkx2.5 codes several cardiac transcription factors and plays a critical role in early cardiogenesis. We investigated the effect of Csx/Nkx2.5 on the expression of cardiac ion channels using P19-derived cardiomyocytes. P19CL6 cells and P19CL6 cells with Csx/Nkx2.5 overexpression (P19CL6-Csx cells) were induced to differentiate into cardiomyocytes by treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide. Action potentials and membrane currents were measured by whole cell patch clamp at different differentiation stage: the early stage (1–5 days after beating had begun) and the late stage (10–15 days after beating). Expression of Csx/Nkx2.5 mRNA was increased as the differentiation stages advanced in both P19CL6 and P19CL6-Csx cells. In action potential configuration, maximal diastolic potentials in P19CL6-Csx cells exhibited more hyperpolarized potential (‒ 64.2 mV) than those in P19CL6 cells (‒ 54.8 mV, p < 0.01) in the early stage. In P19CL6 cells, among 6 different voltage-gated and ligand-operated K+ channels expressed during the early stage, the transient-outward K+ channel was most predominant. By overexpression of Csx/Nkx2.5, developmental decrease in the transient-outward K+ channel was suppressed. Homeobox-containing gene Csx/Nkx2.5 modifies the amount of distinct ionic channels, during differentiation periods, predominantly changing the expression of the transient-outward K+ channel.
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- Tomoko Uchino
- Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Oita, Japan.,Department of Anesthesiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Oita, Japan.,Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Oita, Japan.
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The invasiveness of human cervical cancer associated to the function of Na V1.6 channels is mediated by MMP-2 activity. Sci Rep 2018; 8:12995. [PMID: 30158710 PMCID: PMC6115389 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31364-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 08/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels have been related with cell migration and invasiveness in human cancers. We previously reported the contribution of NaV1.6 channels activity with the invasion capacity of cervical cancer (CeCa) positive to Human Papilloma Virus type 16 (HPV16), which accounts for 50% of all CeCa cases. Here, we show that NaV1.6 gene (SCN8A) overexpression is a general characteristic of CeCa, regardless of the HPV type. In contrast, no differences were observed in NaV1.6 channel expression between samples of non-cancerous and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Additionally, we found that CeCa cell lines, C33A, SiHa, CaSki and HeLa, express mainly the splice variant of SCN8A that lacks exon 18, shown to encode for an intracellularly localized NaV1.6 channel, whereas the full-length adult form was present in CeCa biopsies. Correlatively, patch-clamp experiments showed no evidence of whole-cell sodium currents (INa) in CeCa cell lines. Heterologous expression of full-length NaV1.6 isoform in C33A cells produced INa, which were sufficient to significantly increase invasion capacity and matrix metalloproteinase type 2 (MMP-2) activity. These data suggest that upregulation of NaV1.6 channel expression occurs when cervical epithelium have been transformed into cancer cells, and that NaV1.6-mediated invasiveness of CeCa cells involves MMP-2 activity. Thus, our findings support the notion about using NaV channels as therapeutic targets against cancer metastasis.
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Adipose tissue-derived stem cell response to the differently processed 316L stainless steel substrates. Tissue Cell 2012; 44:365-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2012.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2011] [Revised: 05/28/2012] [Accepted: 06/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Jasmin, Spray DC, Campos de Carvalho AC, Mendez-Otero R. Chemical induction of cardiac differentiation in p19 embryonal carcinoma stem cells. Stem Cells Dev 2010; 19:403-12. [PMID: 20163207 PMCID: PMC3032260 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2009.0234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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P19 cells, a pluripotent cell line derived from a teratocarcinoma induced in C3H/HeHa mice, have been widely used as a model system to study cardiac differentiation. We have used these cells to evaluate the extent to which exposure to DMSO and/or cardiogenol C for 4 days in suspension culture enhanced their differentiation into cardiomyocytes. Cardiac differentiation was assessed by observing beating clusters and further confirmed using immunocytochemical, biochemical, and pharmacological approaches. The presence of functional gap junctions in differentiated P19 cells was identified through calcium wave analyses. Proliferation rate and cell death were analyzed by BrdU incorporation and activated caspase-3 immunodetection, respectively. Beating clusters of differentiated P19 cells were only found in cultures treated with DMSO. In addition, groups treated with DMSO up-regulated cardiac troponin-T expression. However, when DMSO was used together with cardiogenol C the up-regulation was less than that with DMSO alone, approximately 1.5 times. Moreover, P19 cells cultured in DMSO or DMSO plus 0.25 microM cardiogenol C had lower proliferation rates and higher numbers of activated caspase-3-positive cells. In summary, using several methodological approaches we have demonstrated that DMSO can induce cardiac differentiation of P19 cells but that cardiogenol C does not.
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- Jasmin
- Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Wooltorton JRA, Gaboyard S, Hurley KM, Price SD, Garcia JL, Zhong M, Lysakowski A, Eatock RA. Developmental changes in two voltage-dependent sodium currents in utricular hair cells. J Neurophysiol 2006; 97:1684-704. [PMID: 17065252 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00649.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Two kinds of sodium current (I(Na)) have been separately reported in hair cells of the immature rodent utricle, a vestibular organ. We show that rat utricular hair cells express one or the other current depending on age (between postnatal days 0 and 22, P0-P22), hair cell type (I, II, or immature), and epithelial zone (striola vs. extrastriola). The properties of these two currents, or a mix, can account for descriptions of I(Na) in hair cells from other reports. The patterns of Na channel expression during development suggest a role in establishing the distinct synapses of vestibular hair cells of different type and epithelial zone. All type I hair cells expressed I(Na,1), a TTX-insensitive current with a very negative voltage range of inactivation (midpoint: -94 mV). I(Na,2) was TTX sensitive and had less negative voltage ranges of activation and inactivation (inactivation midpoint: -72 mV). I(Na,1) dominated in the striola at all ages, but current density fell by two-thirds after the first postnatal week. I(Na,2) was expressed by 60% of hair cells in the extrastriola in the first week, then disappeared. In the third week, all type I cells and about half of type II cells had I(Na,1); the remaining cells lacked sodium current. I(Na,1) is probably carried by Na(V)1.5 subunits based on biophysical and pharmacological properties, mRNA expression, and immunoreactivity. Na(V)1.5 was also localized to calyx endings on type I hair cells. Several TTX-sensitive subunits are candidates for I(Na,2).
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Scornik FS, Desai M, Brugada R, Guerchicoff A, Pollevick GD, Antzelevitch C, Pérez GJ. Functional expression of "cardiac-type" Nav1.5 sodium channel in canine intracardiac ganglia. Heart Rhythm 2006; 3:842-50. [PMID: 16818219 PMCID: PMC1989775 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2006] [Accepted: 03/14/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND The autonomic nervous system has been implicated in several arrhythmogenic diseases, including long QT syndrome type 3 (LQT3) and Brugada syndrome. Scarce information on the cellular components of the intrinsic cardiac ganglia from higher mammals has limited our understanding of the role of the autonomic nervous system in such diseases. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to isolate and characterize the electrophysiologic properties of canine intracardiac neurons. METHODS Action potentials (APs) and ionic currents were studied in enzymatically dissociated canine intracardiac neurons under current and voltage clamp conditions. Immunohistochemical and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis was performed using freshly isolated intracardiac ganglia. RESULTS APs recorded from intracardiac neurons displayed a tetrodotoxin-resistant (TTX-R) component. TTX-R APs were abolished in the absence of sodium but persisted in the absence of external calcium. Immunohistochemical studies showed the presence of TTX-R sodium channels in these ganglia. Sodium currents were characterized by two components with different affinities for TTX: a tetrodotoxin-sensitive (TTX-S) component and a TTX-R component. TTX-S current inactivation was characteristic of neuronal sodium currents, whereas TTX-R current inactivation time constants were similar to those previously reported for Na(v)1.5 channels. TTX sensitivity (IC(50) = 1.17 microM) of the TTX-R component was in the range reported for Na(v)1.5 channels. Expression of Na(v)1.5 channels in intracardiac ganglia was confirmed by PCR analysis and sequencing. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that canine intracardiac neurons functionally express Na(v)1.5 channels. These findings open an exciting new door to our understanding of autonomically modulated arrhythmogenic diseases linked to mutations in Na(v)1.5 channels, including Brugada syndrome and LQT3.
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Pharmacological modification of sodium channels from the human heart atrium in planar lipid bilayers: electrophysiological characterization of responses to batrachotoxin and pentobarbital. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2003. [DOI: 10.1097/00003643-200305000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Maier SKG, Westenbroek RE, Schenkman KA, Feigl EO, Scheuer T, Catterall WA. An unexpected role for brain-type sodium channels in coupling of cell surface depolarization to contraction in the heart. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:4073-8. [PMID: 11891345 PMCID: PMC122650 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.261705699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Voltage-gated sodium channels composed of pore-forming alpha and auxiliary beta subunits are responsible for the rising phase of the action potential in cardiac muscle, but the functional roles of distinct sodium channel subtypes have not been clearly defined. Immunocytochemical studies show that the principal cardiac pore-forming alpha subunit isoform Na(v)1.5 is preferentially localized in intercalated disks, whereas the brain alpha subunit isoforms Na(v)1.1, Na(v)1.3, and Na(v)1.6 are localized in the transverse tubules. Sodium currents due to the highly tetrodotoxin (TTX)-sensitive brain isoforms in the transverse tubules are small and are detectable only after activation with beta scorpion toxin. Nevertheless, they play an important role in coupling depolarization of the cell surface membrane to contraction, because low TTX concentrations reduce left ventricular function. Our results suggest that the principal cardiac isoform in the intercalated disks is primarily responsible for action potential conduction between cells and reveal an unexpected role for brain sodium channel isoforms in the transverse tubules in coupling electrical excitation to contraction in cardiac muscle.
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- Sebastian K G Maier
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Zholos AV, Baidan LV, Wood JD. Sodium conductance in cultured myenteric AH-type neurons from guinea-pig small intestine. Auton Neurosci 2002; 96:93-102. [PMID: 11958482 DOI: 10.1016/s1566-0702(01)00364-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Whole-cell patch clamp methods were used to investigate sodium conductance in after-hyperpolarization-type (AH) enteric neurons in culture after dissociation from the myenteric plexus of guinea-pig small intestine. Inward current carried by Na+ (I(Na)) was identified and its current-voltage characteristics were compared with those for inward Ca2+ current (I(Ca)). The I(Na) current was a rapidly inactivating current relative to I(Ca). Application of tetrodotoxin (TTX) blocked I(Na) with an EC50 of 10.7 nM. Activation curves for I(Na) showed a rapid decrease in time to peak for test potentials from holding potentials of -80 mV to between -40 and -10 mV. Voltage-dependence of steady-state inactivation curves for I(Na) was fit to the Boltzmann equation with potential for half-inactivation (V(1/2)) = -55.6 mV and slope factor (k) = 6.4 mV. Steady-state inactivation for I(Ca) fit the Boltzmann equation with a V(1/2) = -38.9 mV and k= 14.4 mV. Kinetics for inactivation of I(Na) were voltage dependent at potentials between -70 and -30 mV and accelerated and became less voltage-dependent at more positive potentials. The time constant (tau) for inactivation at -70 mV was tau = 161 +/- 23 ms and decreased to tau = 2.3 +/- 0.2 ms at -30 mV. Rapid acceleration of inactivation occurred between -50 and -40 mV. This was also the range where activation began. Recovery from inactivation with the membrane potential clamped at -100 or -80 mV was rapid and fit by a single exponential with tau = 7.3 +/- 1.1 ms for -100 mV and 21.5 +/- 5.1 ms for -80 mV. The results suggest that AH-type enteric neurons have only one type of Na+ channel that behaves like the "classical" voltage-gated tetrodotoxin-sensitive fast channel. The findings support the hypothesis that I(Na) current is an important factor in determination of excitability and firing behavior in AH neurons. I(Na) and I(Ca) together determine the properties of the rising phase of the spike and thereby contribute to global determinants of excitability as the neurons are exposed to multiple depolarizing and hyperpolarizing stimuli from synaptic inputs and mediators released from enteroparacrine cells.
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- Alexander V Zholos
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1218, USA
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Plummer NW, McBurney MW, Meisler MH. Alternative splicing of the sodium channel SCN8A predicts a truncated two-domain protein in fetal brain and non-neuronal cells. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:24008-15. [PMID: 9295353 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.38.24008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The voltage-gated sodium channel alpha subunit SCN8A is one of the most abundant sodium channels in neurons from brain and spinal cord. We have identified two alternatively spliced exons, 18N and 18A, that encode transmembrane segments S3 and S4 in domain III. Exon 18N is expressed in fetal brain and non-neuronal tissues. Transcripts with exon 18N have a conserved in-frame stop codon that predicts the synthesis of a truncated, two-domain protein similar to the fetal form of the muscle calcium channel. The proportion of transcripts containing exon 18N is highest in mouse fetal brain between E12.5 and P1.5; at later ages transcripts containing exon 18A predominate. This developmental program is recapitulated in P19 cells during retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation. Non-neuronal tissues contain a low level of SCN8A transcripts containing exon 18N. SCN8A thus provides a new model of differentiation specific splicing. Genomic analysis of SCN8A from human, mouse, and fish demonstrated a conserved structure in which exon 18N is located 300-500 bp upstream of exon 18A. Duplication of exon 18 thus preceded the divergence of fish and mammals. The genomic organization, developmental regulation, and coding content of exons 18N and 18A closely resemble the previously described alternate exons 5N and 5A of the neuronal sodium channel genes. Our proposal that the evolutionary origin of exons 18N and 18A was by duplication of exons 5N and 5A is consistent with other evidence that the four-domain cation channels arose by two rounds of duplication from a single-domain ancestral channel.
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- N W Plummer
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0618, USA
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Human central nervous system (CNS) cell lines would substantially facilitate drug discovery and basic research by providing a readily renewable source of human neurons. We isolated clonal human CNS cell lines that had been immortalized with a tetracycline (Tc)-responsive v-myc oncogene; addition of Tc to the growth medium suppressed the oncoprotein rapidly and virtually completely, allowing differentiation to proceed. Two classes of bipotent precursor cells were immortalized: the first class had a default differentiation pathway of neurons only, and the second class had a default differentiation pathway of neurons and astrocytes. We found that after exposure to different external signals in vitro, the environment is capable of redirecting the fate of a particular cell, even in the case of the bipotent precursor cell whose default differentiation pathway was neurons only. These data suggest that extrinsic cues can prevail over intrinsic determinants in directing cell fate in the human CNS.
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- D W Sah
- Signal Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
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Zeng D, Kyle JW, Martin RL, Ambler KS, Hanck DA. Cardiac sodium channels expressed in a peripheral neurotumor-derived cell line, RT4-B8. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 270:C1522-31. [PMID: 8967455 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1996.270.5.c1522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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RT4-B is one of several cell lines derived from a multipotent stem cell line, RT4-AC, which originated from a rat peripheral neurotumor. Based on Northern blot and ribonuclease protection experiments, RT4-B8 cells have been proposed to express rat cardiac Na channel mRNA as the major isoform. We report here direct electrophysiological evidence that the expressed voltage-gated Na channels in the RT4-B8 cell line are of the cardiac phenotype with no evidence for subpopulations expressing other Na channel isoforms. Current activation half point (conductance) was -41 +/- 5 mV (n = 7) and the steady-state voltage-dependent availability half point was -89 +/- 1 mV. As expected for cardiac Na channels, the half concentration of block for tetrodotoxin block was 0.74 microM, for saxitoxin (STX) was 0.15 microM, and for the class 2B divalent cation Cd2+ was 67 microM. Block was well described by single-site dose-response relationships with no indication of a subpopulation with "neuronal" affinity. Single-channel conductance (140 mM Na+) was 10 pS and predicted the average number of channels open at peak Na current to be 3 channels/microns2. [3H]STX binding data were also consistent with a single population of low-affinity STX binding sites and predicted channel density to be 11 sites/microns2. No inwardly or outwardly rectifying K or Ca currents were detected electrophysiologically, although in some cells a small time-independent Cl current was detected. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction of mRNA isolated from RT4-B8 cells demonstrated the presence of rat cardiac (rH1) and brain IIa alpha-subunit mRNA, as well as mRNA for the Na channel beta 1-subunit. Northern blot analysis confirmed the predominance of the rat cardiac Na mRNA compared with brain IIa. The beta 1-subunit mRNA levels were significantly lower than those detected in rat brain and heart mRNA but were comparable to the low level of beta 1-subunit mRNA detected in isolated rat ventricular myocytes.
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- D Zeng
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Zhang X, Phelan KD, Geller HM. A novel tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium current from an immortalized neuroepithelial cell line. J Physiol 1996; 490 ( Pt 1):17-29. [PMID: 8745276 PMCID: PMC1158645 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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1. Voltage-gated ionic currents were recorded from cells of an immortalized neuroepithelial cell line named V1. The cell line was produced by insertion of the temperature-sensitive tsA58 allele of the SV40 large T-antigen into embryonic day 14 mouse hypothalamic cells. V1 cells display a mixed immature neural-glial phenotype and have two phenotypes, round and flat. 2. Recordings from round V1 cells demonstrate voltage-gated Na+ and K+ currents (n = 297), while no voltage-gated currents were observed in flat V1 cells (n = 45). Voltage-gated currents were recorded from cells cultured at both permissive and restrictive temperatures. 3. Internal Cs+ and external tetraethylammonium (TEA) were used to suppress outward currents. The remaining inward current has rapid activation and inactivation time constants which decreased as the test potential increased. In different cells, the amplitude of the peak inward current varied from about 50 pA to as large as 4500 pA (in 120 mM external Na+). The reversal potential for the inward current was close to the predicted Nernst equilibrium potential for Na+. Both the magnitude and reversal potential of the inward current were dependent on the external Na+ concentration. It is therefore considered to be a Na+ current, INa. 4. INa was found to be TTX resistant. About 5% of the INa was blocked by 200 nM TTX and 20 microM TTX fully suppressed the Na+ current. The apparent Kd for TTX blockade was estimated to be 1.49 microM. 5. The activation kinetics of INa could be described by a Hodgkin-Huxley model with an m3 variable. The time constants of activation and inactivation of INa are fast, similar to those of the TTX-resistant and TTX-sensitive Na+ currents in central nervous system neurons and glial cells. 6. The divalent and trivalent cations Cd2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+ and La3+ shifted the activation of INa to more positive potentials and decreased the maximal conductance in a dose-dependent manner. The apparent Kd values for blockade of the INa by Cd2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+ and La3+ were 430, 3500, 1900, 83 and 202 microM, respectively. 7. The addition of phorbol myristate acetate, an activator of protein kinase C, consistently produced a reduction in the amplitudeof INa without affecting the time course of activation or inactivation. 8. INa in V1 cells expresses a unique combination of voltage and time kinetics and sensitivity to blockade by TTX and cations. We hypothesize that this Na+ current may be expressed transiently during development of the central nervous system at the stage of development represented by the V1 cell line.
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- X Zhang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, USA
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