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Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0576
ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels are therapeutic targets for several diseases, including angina, hypertension, and diabetes. This is because stimulation of KATP channels is thought to produce vasorelaxation and myocardial protection against ischemia, whereas inhibition facilitates insulin secretion. It is well known that native KATP channels are inhibited by ATP and sulfonylurea (SU) compounds and stimulated by nucleotide diphosphates and K+ channel-opening drugs (KCOs). Although these characteristics can be shared with KATP channels in different tissues, differences in properties among pancreatic, cardiac, and vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells do exist in terms of the actions produced by such regulators. Recent molecular biology and electrophysiological studies have provided useful information toward the better understanding of KATP channels. For example, native KATP channels appear to be a complex of a regulatory protein containing the SU-binding site [sulfonylurea receptor (SUR)] and an inward-rectifying K+ channel (Kir) serving as a pore-forming subunit. Three isoforms of SUR (SUR1, SUR2A, and SUR2B) have been cloned and found to have two nucleotide-binding folds (NBFs). It seems that these NBFs play an essential role in conferring the MgADP and KCO sensitivity to the channel, whereas the Kir channel subunit itself possesses the ATP-sensing mechanism as an intrinsic property. The molecular structure of KATP channels is thought to be a heteromultimeric (tetrameric) assembly of these complexes: Kir6.2 with SUR1 (SUR1/Kir6.2, pancreatic type), Kir6.2 with SUR2A (SUR2A/Kir6.2, cardiac type), and Kir6.1 with SUR2B (SUR2B/Kir6.1, VSM type) [i.e., (SUR/Kir6.x)4]. It remains to be determined what are the molecular connections between the SUR and Kir subunits that enable this unique complex to work as a functional KATP channel.
adenosine 5'-triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels; sulfonylurea receptor; inward-rectifying potassium channel; nucleotide diphosphates; potassium channel-opening drugs
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