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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 256: C1016-C1021, 1989;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 5 C1016-C1021, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Activation of potassium channels in renal epithelioid cells (MDCK) by extracellular ATP

F. Friedrich, H. Weiss, M. Paulmichl and F. Lang
Institut fur Physiologie, Universitat Innsbruck, Austria.

Extracellular ATP has been shown to stimulate transepithelial chloride transport in confluent Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cell layers and to enhance potassium conductance in subconfluent MDCK cells. The present study has been performed to test for the effect of extracellular ATP on channel activity in patches from subconfluent MDCK cells. Within 8 s, addition of extracellular ATP (10 mumol/l) leads to a sustained, but fully reversible, appearance of potassium-selective channels in cell-attached patches [increase of open probability from 0.03 +/- 0.02 (n = 10) to 0.50 +/- 0.07 (n = 6)]. With the use of pipettes filled with 145 mmol/l KCl, inwardly rectifying property of the channels is disclosed with a single-channel conductance of 65.7 +/- 3.1 pS (n = 9) at zero potential difference between pipette and bath and with a reversal potential of 75.4 +/- 2.0 mV (n = 5; pipette negative vs. reference in the bath). The open probability of the channels is not significantly modified by altering pipette potential from -50 mV, pipette positive, to 50 mV, pipette negative. At extracellular calcium activities of less than 10 nmol/l, ATP leads to a transient activation of channels. In conclusion, extracellular ATP activates inwardly rectifying potassium channels in the cell membrane of subconfluent MDCK cells. A sustained activation of the channels requires the presence of extracellular calcium and is probably mediated by increases in intracellular calcium.


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