Oxygen sensing by human recombinant tandem-P domain potassium channels

Paul J. Kemp, Chris Peers, Paula Millar, Anthony Lewis

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Abstract

Oxygen sensing in many tissues is crucially dependent upon hypoxia-evoked suppression of K+ channel activity (Kemp et al. 2003; Lopez-Barneo et al. 2001; Peers, 1997; Patel and Honore, 2001; Peers & Kemp, 2001). This is particularly true of the prospective airway O2 sensor, the neuroepithelial body of the lung (Youngson et al. 1993; Cutz and Jackson, 1999), their immortalised cellular counterpart (HI46 cells - O’Kelly et al. 1998; O’Kelly et al. 2000b; O’Kelly et al. 2000a; Hartness et al. 2001; O’Kelly et al. 1999; Kemp et al. 2003) and the arterial O2 sensor, the carotid body (Lopez-Barneo et al. 1988; Peers, 1990; Buckler, 1997). In addition, the K+ channels almost certainly contribute to hypoxic vasoconstriction of the pulmonary vasculature (Post et al. 1992; Weir & Archer, 1995; Osipenko et al. 2000 Coppock et al. 2001;) although the full extent and nature of their involvement is still somewhat controversial (Ward & Aaronson, 1999). Although each tissue and model system expresses a cell-specific gamut of K+ channels, central to O2 sensory transduction in several is hypoxic inhibition of members of the gene family encoding tandem P- domain (K2p) K+ channels. Such background K+ channels contribute to the maintenance of resting membrane potential in cells where they are expressed and ascription of specific K2p channels to cellular hypoxic responses have been shown directly in the airway chemosensing model H146 cells (Hartness et al. 2001) - TASK3) and inferred in carotid body glomus cells (Buckler et al. 2000) - TASK1) and arteriolar smooth muscle of the pulmonary circulation(Gurney et al. 2002) - TASK1 or TASK3). The current exception to this potentially unifying theme in acute O2 sensing is the native neuroepithelial body, where involvement of K2p channels has not been robustly investigated other than by demonstration immunohistochemically of the TASK2 protein (Kemp et al. 2003).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChemoreception: From Cellular Signalling to Functional Plasticity
EditorsJean Marc Pequignot, Constancio Gonzalez, Colin A. Nurse, Nanduri R. Prabhakar, Yevette Dalmaz
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherSpringer
Pages201-208
Number of pages8
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781441992802
ISBN (Print)9780306478680, 9781461348733
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2003
EventXVth International Symposium on Arterial Chemorecption - Lyon, France
Duration: 18 Nov 200222 Nov 2002

Publication series

NameAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
PublisherSpringer
Number536
ISSN (Print)0065-2598
ISSN (Electronic)2214-8019

Conference

ConferenceXVth International Symposium on Arterial Chemorecption
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period18/11/0222/11/02

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