title: A hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated, (Ih-like) cationic current and HCN gene expression in renal inner medullary collecting duct cells.
abstract: The cation conductancein primary cultures of rat renal inner medullary collecting duct was studied using perforated-patch and conventional whole cell clamp techniques. Hyperpolarizations beyond -60 mV induced a time-dependent inward nonselective cationic current (I(vti)) that resembles the well-known hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated I(h) and I(f) currents. I(vti) showed a half-maximal activation around -102 mV with a slope factor of 25 mV. It had a higher conductance (but, at its reversal potential, not a higher permeability) for K(+) than for Na(+) (gK(+)/gNa(+) = 1.5), was modulated by cAMP and blocked by external Cd(2+) (but not Cs(+) or ZD-7288), and potentiated by a high extracellular K(+) concentration. We explored the expression of the I(h) channel genes (HCN1 to -4) by RT-PCR. The presence of transcripts corresponding to the HCN1, -2, and -4 genes was observed in both the cultured cells and kidney inner medulla. Western blot analysis with HCN2 antibody showed labeling of approximately 90- and approximately 120-kDa proteins in samples from inner medulla and cultured cells. Immunocytochemical analysis of cell cultures and inner medulla showed the presence of HCN immunoreactivity partially colocalized with the Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase at the basolateral membrane of collecting duct cells. This is the first evidence of an I(h)-like cationic current and HCN immunoreactivity in either kidney or any other nonexcitable mammalian cells.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City DF, 04510, México. jjboliv@servidor.unam.mx
authors.forename: Juan J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bolívar
authors.forename: Dagoberto
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tapia
authors.forename: Gabina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arenas
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castañón-Arreola
authors.forename: Haydee
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Galarraga
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D054815:Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation Channels / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D064428:Hyperpolarization-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000502:physiology; D007679:Kidney Medulla / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D007685:Kidney Tubules, Collecting / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D054815:Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation Channels; C578667:Hcn1 protein, rat; D064428:Hyperpolarization-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels; D015221:Potassium Channels; D012313:RNA; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D011188:Potassium