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. 1994 Apr 12;91(8):3289–3293. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.8.3289

Modulation of cardiac Na+ channels expressed in a mammalian cell line and in ventricular myocytes by protein kinase C.

Y Qu 1, J Rogers 1, T Tanada 1, T Scheuer 1, W A Catterall 1
PMCID: PMC43562  PMID: 8159741

Abstract

Cardiac rH1 Na+ channel alpha subunits were expressed in cells of the Chinese hamster lung 1610 cell line by transfection, and a stable cell line expressing cardiac Na+ channels (SNa-rH1) was isolated. Mean Na+ currents of 2.2 +/- 1.0 nA were recorded, which corresponds to a cell surface density of approximately 1-2 channels active at the peak of the Na+ current per micron2. The expressed cardiac Na+ current was tetrodotoxin resistant (Kd = 1.8 microM) and had voltage-dependent properties similar to those of the Na+ current in neonatal ventricular myocytes. Activation of protein kinase C by 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol (OAG) (10 microM) decreased this current approximately 33% at a holding potential of -114 mV and 56% at -94 mV. This reduction in peak current was caused in part by an 8- to 14-mV shift of steady-state inactivation in the hyperpolarized direction. Na+ channel activation was unchanged. Effects of OAG in SNa-rH1 cells and in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes were similar, except that the time course of inactivation was slowed either transiently or persistently when protein kinase C was activated in myocytes bathed in low-Ca2+ (1 microM) or Ca(2+)-free solution but was unaffected in SNa-rH1 cells. The effects of OAG on cardiac Na+ current were blocked in cells that had been previously microinjected with a peptide inhibitor of protein kinase C but not with a peptide inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, indicating that protein kinase C is responsible for the effect of OAG. Single-channel recordings from SNa-rH1 cells showed that the probability of channel opening was reduced by OAG, but the conductance was unaffected. OAG did not induce the late Na+ channel openings observed with PKC modulation of neuronal and skeletal muscle Na+ channels. Thus, the substantial reduction in Na+ current at normal diastolic depolarizations with 10 microM OAG is due to failure of channel opening in response to depolarization. Such Na+ current reductions may have profound effects on cardiac cell excitability.

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