Journal
BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 86, Issue 2, Pages 267-278Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2013.04.023
Keywords
Propafenone; Human atrial myocytes; I-K1; PIP2; Rectification; Inward rectifier channels
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [SAF2011-30088, SAF2011-30112]
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III [Red HERACLES RD06/0009, PI11/01030]
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares [CNIC-13, CNIC-08-2009]
- Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid [S2012/BMD-2374]
- Sociedad Espanola de Cardiologia grants
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Human cardiac inward rectifier current (I-K1) is generated by Kir2.x channels. Inhibition of In could offer a useful antiarrhythmic strategy against fibrillatory arrhythmias. Therefore, elucidation of Kir2.x channels pharmacology, which still remains elusive, is mandatory. We characterized the electrophysiological and molecular basis of the inhibition produced by the antiarrhythmic propafenone of the current generated by Kir2.x channels (I-Kir2.x) and the I-K1 recorded in human atrial myocytes. Wild type and mutated human Kir2.x channels were transiently transfected in CHO and HEK-293 cells. Macroscopic and single-channel currents were recorded using the patch-clamp technique. At concentrations >1 mu M propafenone inhibited I-Kir2.x, the order of potency being Kir23 similar to I-K1 > Kir2.2 > Kir2.1 channels. Blockade was irrespective of the extracellular K+ concentration whereas markedly increased when the intracellular K+. concentration was decreased. Propafenone decreased inward rectification since at potentials positive to the K+ equilibrium potential propafenone-induced block decreased in a voltage-dependent manner. Importantly, propafenone favored the occurrence of subconductance levels in Kir2.x channels and decreased phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2)-channel affinity. Blind docking and site-directed mutagenesis experiments demonstrated that propafenone bound Kir2.x channels at the cytoplasmic domain, close to, but not in the pore itself, the binding site involving two conserved Arg residues (residues 228 and 260 in Kir2.1). Our results suggested that propafenone incorporated into the cytoplasmic domain of the channel in such a way that it decreased the net negative charge sensed by K+ ions and polyamines which, in turn, promotes the appearance of subconductance levels and the decrease of PIP2 affinity of the channels. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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