dGNaC1, a gonad-specific amiloride-sensitive Na+ channel.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
I DarbouxM Lazdunski

Abstract

Amiloride-sensitive sodium channels have been implicated in reproductive and early developmental processes of several species. These include the fast block of polyspermy in Xenopus oocytes that follows the sperm binding to the egg or blastocoel expansion in mammalian embryo. We have now identified a gene called dGNaC1 that is specifically expressed in the gonads and early embryo in Drosophila melanogaster. The corresponding protein belongs to the superfamily of cationic channels blocked by amiloride that includes Caenorhabditis elegans degenerins, the Helix aspersa FMRF-amide ionotropic receptor (FaNaC), the mammalian epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC), and acid-sensing ionic channels (ASIC, DRASIC, and MDEG). Expression of dGNaC1 in Xenopus oocytes generates a constitutive current that does not discriminate between Na+ and Li+, but is selective for Na+ over K+. This current is blocked by amiloride (IC50 = 24 microM), benzamil (IC50 = 2 microM), and ethylisopropyl amiloride (IC50 = 49 microM). These properties are clearly different from those obtained after expression of the previously cloned members of this family, including ENaC and the human alphaENaC-like subunit, deltaNaC. Interestingly, the pharmacology of dGNaC1 is not very d...Continue Reading

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