Permeability and Mg2+ blockade of histamine‐operated cation channel in endothelial cells of rat intrapulmonary artery.
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 450 (1) , 395-408
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1992.sp019133
Abstract
1. In the cell‐attached and inside‐out patch‐clamp experiments using undispersed endothelial cells of the rat intrapulmonary artery, the majority of channels were cation selective. 2. Under physiological ionic conditions, the I‐V relationship for the inward currents fell to ‐80 mV and the slope conductance was 22.5 pS. There was an inward rectification and the outward currents were smaller than the inward currents. 3. Under symmetric high‐K+ conditions, the slope conductance for the inward currents was 26.4 pS and the inward rectification was observed when the high‐K+ solution contained 1 mM‐Mg2+. The channel activity was weakly voltage dependent at negative membrane potentials, while it was much enhanced at positive potentials. 4. The channel activity did not depend on intracellular Ca2+ concentrations. 5. Mg2+ was not only impermeant, it also blocked this channel in a voltage‐dependent manner and rectifications appeared in the I‐V relationship. Mg2+ blocked the channel from both sides of the membrane. 6. Ca2+ permeated this channel and the permeability ratios calculated from the reversal potentials using the constant‐field theory were; PK:PNa:PCa = 1:1:15.7. 7. Histamine but not acetylcholine applied to the pipette activated this channel. Guanosine 5'‐O‐(3‐thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S) applied to the intracellular surface of the patch did not mimic the effect of histamine. 8. Thus, in the endothelial cell membrane of the rat intrapulmonary artery, there exists a cation channel which is selective to Ca2+ but also permeable to Na+ and K+. This channel has inward rectifying properties, possibly due to intracellular Mg2+. Histamine, but not acetylcholine, activates this cation channel to elevate endothelial [Ca2+]i.Keywords
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