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Full-Text Articles in Medical Physiology
Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide Inhibition Of A Swelling-Activated Cation Channel In Osteoblast-Like Osteosarcoma Cells., Randall L. Duncan, Neil Kizer, Elizabeth L. Barry, Peter P A Friedman, Keith A. Hruska
Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide Inhibition Of A Swelling-Activated Cation Channel In Osteoblast-Like Osteosarcoma Cells., Randall L. Duncan, Neil Kizer, Elizabeth L. Barry, Peter P A Friedman, Keith A. Hruska
Dartmouth Scholarship
By patch-clamp analysis, we have shown that chronic, intermittent mechanical strain (CMS) increases the activity of stretch-activated cation channels of osteoblast-like UMR-106.01 cells. CMS also produces a swelling-activated whole-cell conductance (Gm) regulated by varying strain levels. We questioned whether the swelling-activated conductance was produced by stretch-activated cation channel activity. We have identified a gene involved in the increase in conductance by using antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) derived from the alpha 1-subunit genes of calcium channels found in UMR-106.01 cells (alpha1S, alpha1C, and alpha1D). We demonstrate that alpha 1C antisense ODNs abolish the increase in Gm in response to hypotonic swelling following …
A Recombinant Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channel Coupled To Gtp-Binding Proteins, Kim W. Chan, M. Noelle Langan, Jin Liang Sui, J. Ashot Kozak, Amanda Pabon, John A. A. Ladias, Diomedes E. Logothetis
A Recombinant Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channel Coupled To Gtp-Binding Proteins, Kim W. Chan, M. Noelle Langan, Jin Liang Sui, J. Ashot Kozak, Amanda Pabon, John A. A. Ladias, Diomedes E. Logothetis
Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Physiology Faculty Publications
GTP-binding (G) proteins have been shown to mediate activation of inwardly rectifying potassium (K+) channels in cardiac, neuronal and neuroendocrine cells. Here, we report functional expression of a recombinant inwardly rectifying channel which we call KGP (or hpKir3.4), to signify that it is K+ selective, G-protein-gated and isolated from human pancreas. KGP expression in Xenopus oocytes resulted in sizeable basal (or agonist-independent) currents while coexpression with a G-protein-linked receptor, yielded additional agonist-induced currents. Coexpression of KGP and hGIRK1 (a human brain homolog of GIRK1/Kir3.1) produced much larger basal currents than those observed with KGP or hGIRK1 alone, and upon coexpression …