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Increased inwardly rectifying potassium currents in HEK-293 cells expressing murine transient receptor potential 4.


ABSTRACT: Drosophila transient receptor potential (Trp) and its mammalian homologues are postulated to form capacitative Ca2+ entry or store-operated channels. Here we show that expression of murine Trp4 in HEK 293 cells also leads to an increase in inwardly rectifying K+ currents. No similar increase was found in cell lines expressing Trp1, Trp3 or Trp6. Consistent with typical characteristics of inward rectifiers, the K+ currents in Trp4-expressing cells were blocked by low millimolar concentrations of Cs+ and Ba2+, but not by 1.2 mM Ca2+, and were only slightly inhibited by 5 mM tetraethylammonium. Single channel recordings of excised inside-out patches revealed the presence of two conducting states of 51 pS and 94 pS in Trp4-expressing cells. The outward current in the excised patches was blocked by 1 mM spermine, but not by 1 mM Mg2+. How Trp4 expression causes the increase in the K+ currents is not known. We propose that Trp4 either participates in the formation of a novel K+ channel or up-regulates the expression or activity of endogenous inwardly rectifying K+ channels.

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1221704 | biostudies-other | 2001 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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