title: Effect of the class III antiarrhythmic agent E-4031 on the ATP-sensitive potassium channel in rabbit ventricular myocytes.
abstract: The class III antiarrhythmic drug E-4031, a known blocker of the delayed rectifier potassium channel (IK), might also be capable of blocking the ATP-sensitive potassium channel (IKATP). We examined this possibility by studying the effect of E-4031 on single IKATP channels in membrane patches excised from ventricular myocytes that were obtained by standard enzymatic dissociation techniques from New Zealand white rabbits. In inside-out patches, E-4031 caused a dose-dependent block of IKATP with an EC50 of 31 +/- 1 microM, Hill coefficient of 0.89 +/- 0.24 and no effect on channel conductance. Open dwell-time kinetics were fitted by two exponential components, with E-4031 causing reduction of the longer time constant. In outside-out patches, the concentration of E-4031 required to produce blockade was much higher. We conclude that E-4031 blocks the ATP-sensitive potassium channel and that it does so from within the cytoplasm, with one-to-one channel binding stoichiometry. Single channel conductance is unchanged, but the longer time constant for the open state is reduced, which suggests that E-4031 may be an open channel blocker of intermediate to slow time course.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney N.S.W., Australia.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bursill
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Wyse
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010880:Piperidines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000187:drug effects*; D011725:Pyridines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D010880:Piperidines; D015221:Potassium Channels; D011725:Pyridines; C063968:E 4031; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate