PMID- 2158748 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19900525 LR - 20171213 IS - 0002-9513 (Print) IS - 0002-9513 (Linking) VI - 258 IP - 4 Pt 2 DP - 1990 Apr TI - Inhibition of cardiac Na+ currents by isoproterenol. PG - H977-82 AB - The mechanism by which the beta-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol (ISO) modulates voltage-dependent cardiac Na+ currents (INa) was studied in single ventricular myocytes of neonatal rat using the gigaseal patch-clamp technique. ISO inhibited INa reversibly, making the effect readily distinguishable from the monotonic decrease of INa caused by the shift in gating that customarily occurs during whole cell patch-clamp experiments (E. Fenwick, A. Marty, and E. Neher, J. Physiol. Lond. 331: 599-635, 1982; and J. M. Fernandez, A. P. Fox, and S. Krasne, J. Physiol. Lond. 356: 565-585, 1984). The inhibition was biphasic, having fast and slow components, and was voltage-dependent, being more pronounced at depolarized potentials. In whole cell experiments the membrane-permeable adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) congener 8-bromo-cAMP reduced INa. In cell-free inside-out patches with ISO present in the pipette, guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) applied to the inner side of the membrane patch inhibited single Na+ channel activity. This inhibition could be partly reversed by hyperpolarizing prepulses. The nonhydrolyzable GTP analogue guanosine-5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) greatly reduced the probability of single Na+ channel currents in a Mg2(+)-dependent manner. We propose that ISO inhibits cardiac Na+ channels via the guanine nucleotide binding, signal-transducing G protein that acts through both direct (membrane delimited) and indirect (cytoplasmic) pathways. FAU - Schubert, B AU - Schubert B AD - Department of Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030. FAU - Vandongen, A M AU - Vandongen AM FAU - Kirsch, G E AU - Kirsch GE FAU - Brown, A M AU - Brown AM LA - eng GR - HL-36930/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - HL-37044/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Am J Physiol JT - The American journal of physiology JID - 0370511 RN - 0 (Sodium Channels) RN - 0 (Thionucleotides) RN - 23583-48-4 (8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate) RN - 37589-80-3 (Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)) RN - 86-01-1 (Guanosine Triphosphate) RN - I38ZP9992A (Magnesium) RN - L628TT009W (Isoproterenol) SB - IM MH - 8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate/pharmacology MH - Animals MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Electrophysiology/methods MH - Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate) MH - Guanosine Triphosphate/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology MH - Isoproterenol/*pharmacology MH - Magnesium/pharmacology MH - Myocardium/cytology/*metabolism MH - Sodium Channels/*drug effects/physiology MH - Thionucleotides/pharmacology EDAT- 1990/04/01 00:00 MHDA- 1990/04/01 00:01 CRDT- 1990/04/01 00:00 PHST- 1990/04/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1990/04/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1990/04/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1152/ajpheart.1990.258.4.H977 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Physiol. 1990 Apr;258(4 Pt 2):H977-82. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.1990.258.4.H977.