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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
We studied modulation of current in human embryonic kidney tsA-201 cells coexpressing rat erg1 channels with M1 muscarinic receptors. Maximal current was inhibited 30% during muscarinic receptor stimulation, with a small positive shift of the midpoint of activation. Inhibition was attenuated by coexpression of the regulator of G-protein signalling RGS2 or of a dominant-negative protein, Gq, but not by N-ethylmaleimide or C3 toxin. Overexpression of a constitutively active form of Gq (but not of G13 or of Gs) abolished the erg current. Hence it is likely that Gq/11, and not Gi/o or G13, mediates muscarinic inhibition. Muscarinic suppression of erg was attenuated by chelating intracellular Ca2+ to < 1 nM free Ca2+ with 20 mM BAPTA in the pipette, but suppression was normal if internal Ca2+ was strongly clamped to a 129 nM free Ca2+ level with a BAPTA buffer and this was combined with numerous other measures to prevent intracellular Ca2+ transients (pentosan polysulphate, preincubation with thapsigargin, and removal of extracellular Ca2+). Hence a minimum amount of Ca2+ was necessary for the inhibition, but a Ca2+ elevation was not. The ATP analogue AMP-PCP did not prevent inhibition. The protein kinase C (PKC) blockers staurosporine and bisindolylmaleimide I did not prevent inhibition, and the PKC-activating phorbol ester PMA did not mimic it. Neither the tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein nor the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor dephostatin prevented inhibition by oxotremorine-M. Hence protein kinases are not needed. Experiments with a high concentration of wortmannin were consistent with recovery being partially dependent on PIP2 resynthesis. Wortmannin did not prevent muscarinic inhibition. Our studies of muscarinic inhibition of erg current suggest a role for phospholipase C, but not the classical downstream messengers, such as PKC or a calcium transient.
(Received 23 April 2004;
accepted after revision 28 June 2004;
first published online 2 July 2004)
Corresponding author B. Hille: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, G-424 Health Sciences Building, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA. Email: hille{at}u.washington.edu
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