AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 4 C877-C882, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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CaMKII mediates stimulation of chloride conductance by calcium in T84 cells

R. T. Worrell and R. A. Frizzell
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.

We used the secretory colonic cell line T84 to study the regulatory pathways controlling the Ca-stimulated Cl conductance [GCl(Ca)]. Under whole cell patch clamp, basal (unstimulated) current levels averaged 73 +/- 9 pA/20 pF (n = 93) and increased to 600 +/- 100 pA/20 pF (n = 53; at +100 mV) on exposure to 1-2 microM ionomycin. Bath application of the calmodulin (CaM) antagonists trifluoperazine, calmidazolium, or sphingosine (50 microM) reversibly inhibited GCl(Ca), whereas the protein kinase C antagonists H7 and phloretin (50 microM) were without effect. This suggests that increases in intracellular Ca stimulate GCl(Ca) via a CaM-dependent process rather than activating Cl channels directly. To assess the involvement of protein kinases in the Ca-dependent stimulation of Cl conductance, we employed pseudosubstrate peptide inhibitors of protein kinase C (PKC) and the Ca/CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII). Cellular concentrations of inhibitors during whole cell recording were estimated to be 4-20 times the inhibitory constant values for kinase inhibition observed in vitro. Pipette solutions containing the PKC peptide inhibitor PKC-(19-36) (7.5 microM) had no effect on GCl(Ca). In contrast, stimulation of GCl(Ca) by ionomycin was abolished when pipette solutions contained 10 microM CaMKII peptide inhibitor CaMKII-(273-302). The truncated peptide CaMKII-(284-302) (20 microM) lacks the CaMKII inhibitory domain and did not affect GCl(Ca). These data suggest that CaM, acting through the multifunctional CaMKII, mediates the Ca-dependent stimulation of Cl conductance in colonic secretory cells.

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