Molecular identification of a volume-regulated chloride channel

Dayue Duan, Cathy Winter, Suzanne Cowley, Joseph R. Hume () and Burton Horowitz ()
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Dayue Duan: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Cathy Winter: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Suzanne Cowley: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Joseph R. Hume: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Burton Horowitz: University of Nevada School of Medicine

Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6658, 417-421

Abstract: Abstract A volume-regulated chloride current ( I Cl.vol) is ubiquitously present in mammalian cells, and is required for the regulation of electrical activity, cell volume, intracellular pH, immunological responses, cell proliferation and differentiation. However, the molecule responsible for I Cl.vol has yet to be determined1,2,3. Although three putative chloride channel proteins expressed from cloned genes (P-glycoprotein4, p I Cln (ref. 5) and ClC-2 (ref. 6)) have been proposed to be the molecular equivalent of I Cl.vol, neither P-glycoprotein nor p I Cln is thought to be a chloride channel or part thereof7,8, and the properties of expressed ClC-2 channels differ from native I Cl.vol (refs. 3, 6). Here we report that functional expression in NIH/3T3 cells of a cardiac clone of another member of the ClC family, ClC-3, results in a large basally active chloride conductance, which is strongly modulated by cell volume and exhibits many properties identical to those of I Cl.vol in native cells1,2,3,9,10,11,12,13. A mutation of asparagine to lysine at position 579 at the end of the transmembrane domains of ClC-3 abolishes the outward rectification and changes the anion selectivity from I− > Cl− to Cl− > I− but leaves swelling activation intact. Because ClC-3 is a channel protein belonging to a large gene family of chloride channels3,14, these results indicate that ClC-3 encodes I Cl.vol in many native mammalian cells.

Date: 1997
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