Effect of β-adrenoceptor blockers on Human Ether-a-go-go-Related gene (HERG) potassium channels
Effect of β-adrenoceptor blockers on Human Ether-a-go-go-Related gene (HERG) potassium channels
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1742-7843.2005.pto960206.x
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发表时间:
2005-02-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Olesen, SP
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作者:
Dupuis, DS;Klaerke, DA;Olesen, SP
Patients with congenital long QT syndrome may develop arrhythmias under conditions of increased sympathetic tone. We have addressed whether some of the beta-adrenoceptor blockers commonly used to prevent the development of these arrhythmias could per se block the cardiac HERG (Human Ether-a-go-go-Related Gene) potassium channels, which would be a most unwanted side effect. HERG potassium channels were heterologously expressed in Xenopus oocytes and the currents measured by two-electrode-voltage-clamp technique. Propranolol caused a concentration-dependent inhibition of HERG current with an IC50 value of 81 muM at -10 mV. When HERG was co-expressed with the accessory subunit KCNE2, an IC50 value of 52 muM was determined. The block by propranolol was voltage-dependent, but it did not change the HERG channel deactivation kinetics. The propranolol analogue ICI118551 ((+/-)-1-[2,3-(dihydro-7-methyl-1H-inden-4-yl)oxy]-3-[(1-methylethyl)amino]-2-butanol hydrochloride) blocked the HERG channel with similar affinity, whereas the beta1-receptor antagonists metoprolol and atenolol showed weak effects. Further, the four compounds blocked HERG channels expressed in a mammalian HEK293 cell line. These data showed that HERG blockade by beta-adrenoceptor blockers occurred only at high micromolar concentrations, which are significantly above the recently established safe margin of 100 (Redfern et al., 2003).