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CELLULAR METABOLISM

TRPM7 is a stretch- and swelling-activated cation channel involved in volume regulation in human epithelial cells

¹Department of Cell Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences and ²Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Life Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Okazaki; and ³Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Submitted 6 July 2006 ; accepted in final form 28 August 2006

Stretch- and swelling-activated cation (SSAC) channels play essential roles not only in sensing and transducing external mechanical stresses but also in regulating cell volume in living cells. However, the molecular nature of the SSAC channel has not been clarified. In human epithelial HeLa cells, single-channel recordings in cell-attached and inside-out patches revealed expression of a Mg²⁺- and Gd³⁺-sensitive nonselective cation channel that is exquisitely sensitive to membrane stretch. Whole cell recordings revealed that the macroscopic cationic currents exhibit transient receptor potential (TRP) melastatin (TRPM)7-like properties such as outward rectification and sensitivity to Mg²⁺ and Gd³⁺. The whole cell cation current was augmented by osmotic cell swelling. RT-PCR and Western blotting demonstrated molecular expression of TRPM7 in HeLa cells. Treatment with small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeted against TRPM7 led to abolition of single stretch-activated cation channel currents and of swelling-activated, whole cell cation currents in HeLa cells. The silencing of TRPM7 by siRNA reduced the rate of cell volume recovery after osmotic swelling. A similar inhibition of regulatory volume decrease was also observed when extracellular Ca²⁺ was removed or Gd³⁺ was applied. It is thus concluded that TRPM7 represents the SSAC channel endogenously expressed in HeLa cells and that, by serving as a swelling-induced Ca²⁺ influx pathway, it plays an important role in cell volume regulation.

regulatory volume decrease

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