KCNQ channels mediate IKs, a slow K+ current regulating excitability in the rat node of Ranvier

The Journal of Physiology
J R SchwarzHugh Bostock

Abstract

Mutations that reduce the function of KCNQ2 channels cause neuronal hyperexcitability, manifested as epileptic seizures and myokymia. These channels are present in nodes of Ranvier in rat brain and nerve and have been proposed to mediate the slow nodal potassium current I(Ks). We have used immunocytochemistry, electrophysiology and pharmacology to test this hypothesis and to determine the contribution of KCNQ channels to nerve excitability in the rat. When myelinated nerve fibres of the sciatic nerve were examined by immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies against KCNQ2 and KCNQ3, all nodes showed strong immunoreactivity for KCNQ2. The nodes of about half the small and intermediate sized fibres showed labelling for both KCNQ2 and KCNQ3, but nodes of large fibres were labelled by KCNQ2 antibodies only. In voltage-clamp experiments using large myelinated fibres, the selective KCNQ channel blockers XE991 (IC50 = 2.2 microm) and linopirdine (IC50 = 5.5 microm) completely inhibited I(Ks), as did TEA (IC50 = 0.22 mm). The KCNQ channel opener retigabine (10 microm) shifted the activation curve to more negative membrane potentials by -24 mV, thereby increasing I(Ks). In isotonic KCl 50% of I(Ks) was activated at -62 mV. The acti...Continue Reading

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