title: Modulation of skeletal and cardiac voltage-gated sodium channels by calmodulin.
abstract: Calmodulin (CaM) has been shown to modulate different ion channels, including voltage-gated sodium channels (NaChs). Using the yeast two-hybrid assay, we found an interaction between CaM and the C-terminal domains of adult skeletal (NaV1.4) and cardiac (NaV1.5) muscle NaChs. Effects of CaM were studied using sodium channels transiently expressed in CHO cells. Wild type CaM (CaM(WT)) caused a hyperpolarizing shift in the voltage dependence of activation and inactivation for NaV1.4 and activation for NaV1.5. Intracellular application of CaM caused hyperpolarizing shifts equivalent to those seen with CaM(WT) coexpression with NaV1.4. Elevated Ca2+ and CaM-binding peptides caused depolarizing shifts in the inactivation curves seen with CaM(WT) coexpression with NaV1.4. KN93, a CaM-kinase II inhibitor, had no effect on NaV1.4, suggesting that CaM acts directly on NaV1.4 and not through activation of CaM-kinase II. Coexpression of hemi-mutant CaMs showed that an intact N-terminal lobe of CaM is required for effects of CaM upon NaV1.4. Mutations in the sodium channel IQ domain disrupted the effects of CaM on NaV1.4: the I1727E mutation completely blocked all calmodulin effects, while the L1736R mutation disrupted the effects of Ca2+-calmodulin on inactivation. Chimeric channels of NaV1.4 and NaV1.5 also indicated that the C-terminal domain is largely responsible for CaM effects on inactivation. CaM had little effect on NaV1.4 expressed in HEK cells, possibly due to large differences in the endogenous expression of beta-subunits between CHO and HEK cells. These results in heterologous cells suggest that Ca2+ released during muscle contraction rapidly modulates NaCh availability via CaM.
authors.affiliation: Campus Box 8315, Dept. of Cell/Devel Biology and the Neuroscience Program, UCHSC, PO Box 6511, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
authors.forename: Katharine A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Caldwell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016466:CHO Cells; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D006224:Cricetinae; D006801:Humans; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000502:physiology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology; D051379:Mice; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D032446:Myoblasts / Q000166:cytology; D062554:NAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D051381:Rats; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism; D015222:Sodium Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014162:Transfection; D020798:Two-Hybrid System Techniques
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D062554:NAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel; C568320:SCN5A protein, human; C466180:Scn4a protein, rat; C568321:Scn5a protein, mouse; C568322:Scn5a protein, rat; D015222:Sodium Channels; D012964:Sodium
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