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MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

Differential modulation of voltage-dependent K⁺ currents in colonic smooth muscle by oxidants

Departments of ¹Surgery and ²Research and Development, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Roxbury 02132; and ³Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, ⁴Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Submitted 9 April 2003 ; accepted in final form 10 November 2003

The effect of oxidants on voltage-dependent K⁺ currents was examined in mouse colonic smooth muscle cells. Exposure to either chloramine-T (Ch-T), an agent known to oxidize both cysteine and methionine residues, or the colon-specific oxidant monochloramine (NH₂Cl) completely suppressed the transient outward K⁺ current (I_to) while simultaneously enhancing the sustained delayed rectifier K⁺ current (I_dr). In contrast, the cysteine-specific oxidants hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) and 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) exhibited partial and slow suppression of I_to by inducing a shift in channel availability of -18 mV without affecting I_dr. After enhancement by NH₂Cl or Ch-T, I_dr was sensitive to 10 mM tetraethylammonium but not to other K⁺ channel blockers, suggesting that it represented activation of the resting I_dr and not a separate K⁺ conductance. Extracellular dithiothreitol (DTT) partially reversed the effect of H₂O₂ and DTNB on I_to but not the actions of NH₂Cl and Ch-T on either I_dr or I_to. Dialysis of myocytes with GSH (5 mM) or DTT (5 mM) prevented suppression of I_to by H₂O₂ and DTNB but did not alter the effects of NH₂Cl or Ch-T on either I_dr or I_to. Ch-T and NH₂Cl completely blocked I_to generated by murine K_v4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 in Xenopus oocytes, an effect not reversible by intracellular DTT. In contrast, intracellular DTT reversed the effect of H₂O₂ and DTNB on the cloned channels. These results suggest that I_to is suppressed via modification of both methionine and cysteine residues, whereas enhancement of I_dr likely results from methionine oxidation alone.

colon; colitis; redox; ion channel

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