title: Protein kinase C inhibits the Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel of cultured porcine coronary artery smooth muscle cells.
abstract: The effect of protein kinase C (C-kinase) on the Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel (KCa-channel) was studied in cultured smooth muscle cells from porcine coronary artery by the patch-clamp technique. In cell-attached patches, bath application of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA, 1 microM), a C-kinase activator, significantly decreased the open probability of the activated KCa-channel in the presence of the calcium ionophore A23187 (20 microM), which increases intracellular Ca2+. This decrease in the open probability was reversed by subsequent application of staurosporine (1 nM), a C-kinase inhibitor. Application of 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol (OAG, 30 microM) or 1,2-dioctanoylglycerol (DG8; 30 microM), activators of C-kinase, also inhibited KCa-channel activation by A23187, and these inhibitions were also reversed by staurosporine. PMA (1 microM) also inhibited KCa-channel activation by dibutylyl cyclic AMP (db-cAMP, 2 mM) or caffeine (30 mM). In inside-out patches, bath application of the C-kinase fraction from rat brain in the presence of ATP (1 mM) and PMA (1 microM) markedly inhibited the KCa-channel. These results indicate that activation of C-kinase inhibits the KCa-channel and may cause membrane depolarization and vascular contraction.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Health Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukuzawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakaya
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000201:enzymology / Q000502:physiology*; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000187:drug effects; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000201:enzymology / Q000502:physiology*; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D011336:Probability; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D013552:Swine; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D004075:Diglycerides; D015221:Potassium Channels; D000001:Calcimycin; C038237:1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D002118:Calcium