title: Inhibition of cardiac Na+ currents by isoproterenol.
abstract: The mechanism by which the beta-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol (ISO) modulates voltage-dependent cardiac Na+ currents (INa) was studied in single ventricular myocytes of neonatal rat using the gigaseal patch-clamp technique. ISO inhibited INa reversibly, making the effect readily distinguishable from the monotonic decrease of INa caused by the shift in gating that customarily occurs during whole cell patch-clamp experiments (E. Fenwick, A. Marty, and E. Neher, J. Physiol. Lond. 331: 599-635, 1982; and J. M. Fernandez, A. P. Fox, and S. Krasne, J. Physiol. Lond. 356: 565-585, 1984). The inhibition was biphasic, having fast and slow components, and was voltage-dependent, being more pronounced at depolarized potentials. In whole cell experiments the membrane-permeable adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) congener 8-bromo-cAMP reduced INa. In cell-free inside-out patches with ISO present in the pipette, guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) applied to the inner side of the membrane patch inhibited single Na+ channel activity. This inhibition could be partly reversed by hyperpolarizing prepulses. The nonhydrolyzable GTP analogue guanosine-5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) greatly reduced the probability of single Na+ channel currents in a Mg2(+)-dependent manner. We propose that ISO inhibits cardiac Na+ channels via the guanine nucleotide binding, signal-transducing G protein that acts through both direct (membrane delimited) and indirect (cytoplasmic) pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schubert
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Vandongen
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Kirsch
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D015124:8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000379:methods; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008274:Magnesium / Q000494:pharmacology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D015222:Sodium Channels / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D013873:Thionucleotides / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D015222:Sodium Channels; D013873:Thionucleotides; D015124:8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D008274:Magnesium; D007545:Isoproterenol