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. 1999 Apr;76(4):1972–1987. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77356-X

Regulation of recombinant cardiac cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator chloride channels by protein kinase C.

J Yamazaki 1, F Britton 1, M L Collier 1, B Horowitz 1, J R Hume 1
PMCID: PMC1300173  PMID: 10096895

Abstract

We investigated the regulation of cardiac cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl- channels by protein kinase C (PKC) in Xenopus oocytes injected with cRNA encoding the cardiac (exon 5-) CFTR Cl- channel isoform. Membrane currents were recorded using a two-electrode voltage clamp technique. Activators of PKC or a cAMP cocktail elicited robust time-independent Cl- currents in cardiac CFTR-injected oocytes, but not in control water-injected oocytes. The effects of costimulation of both pathways were additive; however, maximum protein kinase A (PKA) activation occluded further activation by PKC. In oocytes expressing either the cardiac (exon 5-) or epithelial (exon 5+) CFTR isoform, Cl- currents activated by PKA were sustained, whereas PKC-activated currents were transient, with initial activation followed by slow current decay in the continued presence of phorbol esters, the latter effect likely due to down-regulation of endogenous PKC activity. The specific PKA inhibitor, adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphothioate (Rp-cAMPS), and various protein phosphatase inhibitors were used to determine whether the stimulatory effects of PKC are dependent upon the PKA phosphorylation state of cardiac CFTR channels. Intraoocyte injection of 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N, N,N-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) or pretreatment of oocytes with BAPTA-acetoxymethyl-ester (BAPTA-AM) nearly completely prevented dephosphorylation of CFTR currents activated by cAMP, an effect consistent with inhibition of protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) by chelation of intracellular Mg2+. PKC-induced stimulation of CFTR channels was prevented by inhibition of basal endogenous PKA activity, and phorbol esters failed to stimulate CFTR channels trapped into either the partially PKA phosphorylated (P1) or the fully PKA phosphorylated (P1P2) channel states. Site-directed mutagenesis of serines (S686 and S790) within two consensus PKC phosphorylation sites on the cardiac CFTR regulatory domain attentuated, but did not eliminate, the stimulatory effects of phorbol esters on mutant CFTR channels. The effects of PKC on cardiac CFTR Cl- channels are consistent with a simple model in which PKC phosphorylation of the R domain facilitates PKA-induced transitions from dephosphorylated (D) to partially (P1) phosphorylated and fully (P1P2) phosphorylated channel states.

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