Simultaneous Activation of p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK by ATP Stimulates the K+ Current ITREK in Cardiomyocytes

Living cells exhibit multiple K+ channel proteins; among these is the recently reported atypical two-pore domain K+ channel protein TREK-1. Most K+ currents are modulated by neurohormones and under various pathological conditions. Here, in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique, we characterize for the first time a native TREK-1-like current (ITREK) that is activated by ATP, a purine agonist applied at a micromolar range. This current is sensitive to arachidonic acid, intracellular acidosis, and various K+ current inhibitors. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction reveals the presence of a TREK-1-like mRNA in rat cardiomyocytes that shows 93% identity with mouse TREK-1. ATP effects are greatly attenuated in the presence of arachidonic acid or HCO−3-induced intracellular acidosis. Using a series of inhibitors, we further demonstrate that the ATP-induced stimulation of ITREKimplies the activation of cytosolic phospholipase A2 and the release of arachidonic acid. These events require the simultaneous involvement of p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK, respectively, via a cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a tyrosine kinase pathway, whereas the two MAPKs conjugate to activate a mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MSK-1). Our results thus demonstrate the occurrence of a TREK-1-like current in cardiac cells whose activation by purine agonists implies a dual-MAPK cytosolic pathway. Living cells exhibit multiple K+ channel proteins; among these is the recently reported atypical two-pore domain K+ channel protein TREK-1. Most K+ currents are modulated by neurohormones and under various pathological conditions. Here, in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique, we characterize for the first time a native TREK-1-like current (ITREK) that is activated by ATP, a purine agonist applied at a micromolar range. This current is sensitive to arachidonic acid, intracellular acidosis, and various K+ current inhibitors. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction reveals the presence of a TREK-1-like mRNA in rat cardiomyocytes that shows 93% identity with mouse TREK-1. ATP effects are greatly attenuated in the presence of arachidonic acid or HCO−3-induced intracellular acidosis. Using a series of inhibitors, we further demonstrate that the ATP-induced stimulation of ITREKimplies the activation of cytosolic phospholipase A2 and the release of arachidonic acid. These events require the simultaneous involvement of p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK, respectively, via a cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a tyrosine kinase pathway, whereas the two MAPKs conjugate to activate a mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MSK-1). Our results thus demonstrate the occurrence of a TREK-1-like current in cardiac cells whose activation by purine agonists implies a dual-MAPK cytosolic pathway. protein kinase A polymerase chain reaction reverse transcription-PCR phospholipase A2 cytosolic PLA2 mitogen-activated protein kinase mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase thymidine kinase arachidonic acid pertussis toxin acetylcholine deoxynucleotide triphosphates nordihydroguaiaretic acid haloenol lactone suicide substrate focal adhesion kinase MAPK-activated protein kinase The exceptional diversity of K+ currents has physiological significance in the heart, where the various currents underlie distinct phases of action potential repolarization. Recent cloning efforts have identified a large number of pore-forming subunits for K+ channels. They include the voltage-activated, outward rectifying K+ channels (Kv families) and the inward rectifying K+ channels (Kir families) that show a single pore-forming region and six or two transmembrane domains, respectively. More recently, a novel class of K+ channel subunits (TWIK) that possess two pore-forming regions and four transmembrane domains has been cloned and expressed (1Duprat F. Lesage F. Fink M. Reyes R. Heurteaux C. Lazdunski M. EMBO J. 1997; 16: 5464-5471Crossref PubMed Scopus (549) Google Scholar, 2Fink M. Lesage F. Duprat F. Heurteaux C. Reyes R. Fosset M. Lazdunski M. EMBO J. 1998; 17: 3297-3308Crossref PubMed Scopus (398) Google Scholar, 3Lesage F. Guillemare E. Fink M. Duprat F. Lazdunski M. Romey G. Barhanin J. EMBO J. 1996; 15: 1004-1011Crossref PubMed Scopus (460) Google Scholar, 4Lesage F. Lauritzen I. Duprat F. Reyes R. Fink M. Heurteaux C. Lazdunski M. 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Extracellular ATP modulates the inward rectifying K+ currents, IK1 and IK(Ach), and a delayed outward rectifying current in atrial cells (11Matsuura H. Sakaguchi M. Tsuruhara Y. Ehara T. J. Physiol. ( Lond. ). 1996; 490: 659-671Crossref PubMed Scopus (28) Google Scholar, 12Matsuura H. Ehara T. J. Physiol. ( Lond. ). 1997; 503: 45-54Crossref PubMed Scopus (16) Google Scholar). Recently, it was postulated that tyrosine phosphorylation is involved in the enhancement of the delayed rectifier K+ current by ATP in guinea pig ventricular cells (13Matsubayashi T. Matsuura H. Ehara T. Pflugers Arch. 1999; 437: 635-642PubMed Google Scholar). Besides activating ionotropic P2X receptors, purinergic stimulation by ATP might involve several of the multiple metabotropic P2Y receptors found in cardiac cells (14Ralevic V. Burnstock G. Pharmacol. Rev. 1998; 50: 413-492PubMed Google Scholar). P2Y receptors have been shown to be linked to activation of PKA1 (15Puceat M. Bony C. Jaconi M. Vassort G. 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In a variety of cell types, PLA2 activation occurs as a result of phosphorylation by MAPKs (22Lin L.L. Wartmann M. Lin A.Y. Knopf J.L. Seth A. Davis R.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 269-278Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1659) Google Scholar, 23Leslie C.C. J. Biol. Chem. 1997; 272: 16709-16712Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (743) Google Scholar). In neutrophils, it was recently reported that inhibitors of p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK individually reduced cytosolic PLA2(cPLA2) activity, whereas their combined blockade caused a total inhibition of cPLA2 (24Hazan-Halevy I. Seger R. Levy R. J. Biol. Chem. 2000; 275: 12416-12423Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (64) Google Scholar). Arachidonic acid (AA), which is released by cPLA2 during metabolic inhibition or ischemia, activates a K+ current, IK(AA), in rat neonatal atrial and adult ventricular cells (25Kim D. Clapham D.E. Science. 1989; 244: 1174-1176Crossref PubMed Scopus (270) Google Scholar, 26Kim D. Duff R.A. Circ. Res. 1990; 67: 1040-1046Crossref PubMed Scopus (95) Google Scholar). The channel subunit protein underlying IK(AA) is unknown. We now report a TREK-like K+ current in isolated rat ventricular cells. This current is activated by extracellular ATP via the release of arachidonic acid after cPLA2 activation. The purinergic-dependent activation of cPLA2requires the simultaneous activation of both p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK by a cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a tyrosine kinase-dependent pathway, respectively. Ventricular myocytes were isolated from the heart of urethane-anesthetized (2 g/kg, i.p.) Wistar rats as described previously (27Aimond F. Alvarez J.L. Rauzier J.M. Lorente P. Vassort G. Cardiovasc. Res. 1999; 42: 402-415Crossref PubMed Scopus (89) Google Scholar). The heart was first perfused for 5 min at 35 °C with a nominally Ca-free HEPES-buffered solution containing 117 mm NaCl, 5.7 mm KCl, 4.4 mmNaHCO3, 1.5 mm KH2PO4, 1.7 mm MgCl2, 21 mm HEPES, 11 mm glucose, 20 mm taurine and then perfused for 40 min with the same solution plus 30 μm Ca2+and 1.2 mg/ml collagenase (CLS4; Worthington). The heart was then gently dissociated through the bore of a large-tip pipette, followed by two decantations to separate dead cells. The cells were then suspended in HEPES buffer with 1 mm Ca2+ and 0.5% bovine serum albumin (pH 7.4). The yield of well-striated, cells was of was using the whole-cell patch-clamp at °C was The series and time of were cells to the 1 in which is the current, is the current at the of the and is the of the (2 from a potential of K+ currents were during applied and in from a potential of or from a potential of in as were at with a and using a cell was in a containing the solution mm KCl, mm 1.7 mm MgCl2, mm glucose, and mm was to with whole-cell patch-clamp the cell was to extracellular by it at the of of six a of solution The solution was with μm and to and respectively. The solution mm KCl, mm MgCl2, 5 mm 5 mm mm 11 mm free and 20 mm was with to total K+ were for min in the presence of mm of cardiac cells were for min at °C with 30 μm 40 μm arachidonic acid, or 1 μm with or with inhibitors. was by of acid. the was in and to protein Biochem. 72: PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). 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The of 30 μm ATP in both the outward and inward currents that after min 1 The ATP-induced outward current a activation with during the In in the presence of mm the time to was at to the ATP-induced inward current was at and a after current during the first 20 of the applied at the of the inward and outward current a in the inward current 1 The outward current was as a result of a inhibition of The ATP-induced current at the of the a and inward 1 effects were by or ATP in the presence of of whereas the ATP effects were by a not current activation results from ATP activation of ATP activated a K+ current in rat ventricular cells not as it in atrial cells (11Matsuura H. Sakaguchi M. Tsuruhara Y. Ehara T. J. Physiol. ( Lond. ). 1996; 490: 659-671Crossref PubMed Scopus (28) Google Scholar). 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FEBS Lett. 1998; 431: 189-194Crossref PubMed Scopus (34) Google Scholar). of was the ATP-induced in was by with of cPLA2 and MAPK not of in the ATP was also the the in not of the cells with ATP a of the mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase the activation of by ATP as as the of of p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK that after a time to the ATP activation of both MAPKs p38 MAPK activation by ATP was not by A and not was by the the not the p42/44 MAPK activation by This that and TK activate p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK, respectively. p38 MAPK and p42/44 MAPK activation The results demonstrate for the first time the occurrence of a native TREK-1-like purinergic stimulation of cardiomyocytes K+ current after the activation of cPLA2 by a dual-MAPK the expressed TREK-1 current activated by or acidosis, the ATP-induced current in cardiomyocytes is activation and outward and shows to various K+ channel In with identity to the mouse TREK-1 are in the rat ventricular activates several currents which is also activated by intracellular acidosis (6Maingret F. 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