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XB-ART-18024
Pflugers Arch 1996 Jul 01;4323:516-22. doi: 10.1007/s004240050164.
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cAMP stimulation of CFTR-expressing Xenopus oocytes activates a chromanol-inhibitable K+ conductance.

Mall M , Kunzelmann K , Hipper A , Busch AE , Greger R .


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Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) functions as a Cl- channel in a large variety of cells expressing this protein. Recently evidence has accumulated that it also regulates other ion channels. A coordinated increase in Cl- and K+ conductances is necessary in many Cl--secreting epithelia. This has, for example, recently been demonstrated for the colonic crypt, for which a new type of K+ channel and a specific inhibitor of this channel, the chromanol 293B, have been described. In the present study we have examined whether the cAMP-evoked activation of CFTR, overexpressed in Xenopus oocytes, in addition to its known activation of a Cl- conductance, also upregulates endogenous K+ channels. It is shown that CFTR-cRNA-injected but not water-injected oocytes possess a cAMP-activated Cl- conductance. Of the cAMP-induced whole-cell current increase, 15-25% was due to a 293B-, Ba2+and TEA+-inhibitable K+ conductance. The cRNA of the mutated CFTR (DeltaF508 CFTR) had no such effect. We conclude that cAMP activated CFTR and an endogenous IsK-type and 293B-sensitive K+ conductance. Similar events, occurring, for example, in the colonic crypt possessing CFTR and 293B-sensitive K+ channels, might explain the coordinated cAMP-mediated increase in Cl- and K+ conductances.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: camp cftr kcne1

References [+] :
Anderson, Demonstration that CFTR is a chloride channel by alteration of its anion selectivity. 1991, Pubmed