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Effects of myosin light chain kinase inhibitors on caubachol-activated nonselective cationic current in guinea-pig gastric myocytes
- Title
- Effects of myosin light chain kinase inhibitors on caubachol-activated nonselective cationic current in guinea-pig gastric myocytes
- Authors
- Kim Y.C.; Kim S.J.; Kang T.M.; Suh S.H.; So I.; Kim K.W.
- Ewha Authors
- 서석효
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 서석효
- Issue Date
- 1997
- Journal Title
- Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology
- ISSN
- 0031-6768
- Citation
- Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology vol. 434, no. 4, pp. 346 - 353
- Indexed
- SCI; SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- The effects of myosin light chain kinase inhibitors on muscarinic stimulation-activated nonselective cationic current (I(CCh)) in guinea-pig gastric antral myocytes were studied using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. I(CCh) was induced by carbachol (CCh, 50 μM) at a holding potential of -30 mV or -60 mV. ML-7, a chemical inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), inhibited I(CCh) concentration dependently in a reversible manner (53 ± 8.6% at 1 μM, mean ± SE, n = 11). In addition, amplitudes of I(CCh) were only 37 ± 2.7% of the daily control values following the addition of a peptide inhibitor of MLCK to the pipette solution. On the other hand, ML-7 had an inhibitory effect on voltage-operated Ca 2+ channel current. The peak value of Ba 2+ current at 0 mV was reduced to 35 ± 7.4% (n = 9) by 3 μM of ML-7. As I(CCh) is known to have an intracellular Ca 2+ dependence, we tried to exclude the possibility that ML-7 inhibited I(CCh) indirectly via suppression of Ca 2+ current and the similar inhibitory effects of ML7 on I(CCh) were confirmed under the following conditions: (1) clamp of membrane potential at -60 mV; (2) clamp of intracellular [Ca 2+] to 1 μM by 10 mM BAPTA; (3) pre-inhibition of Ca 2+ channel by verapamil. Different from the effects on I(CCh), ML-7 barely inhibited the same cationic current induced by guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP[γS], 0.2 mM) in the pipette solution. These results suggest that a Ca 2+-calmodulin-MLCK-dependent pathway can modulate the activation of I(CCh) in guinea-pig gastric antral myocytes.
- DOI
- 10.1007/s004240050407
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