Price M, Lee S C, Deutsch C
Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6085.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Dec;86(24):10171-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.24.10171.
We demonstrate that blockade of the lymphocyte voltage-gated K+ channel by charybdotoxin (CTX) inhibits lymphocyte mitogenesis. Charybdotoxin blocks conductance with a Ki of 0.3 nM and inhibits mitogen- and antigen-stimulated proliferation with a Ki of 0.5 nM. As opposed to the other blockers of the lymphocyte K+ channel, the inhibition of mitogenesis by CTX can be overcome selectively by exogenous recombinant interleukin 2 (IL-2); endogenous levels of IL-2 in the culture supernatants of stimulated cells are decreased by the presence of CTX. Our results suggest that the voltage-gated K+ channel is either directly or indirectly involved in IL-2 synthesis and/or secretion.
我们证明,用蝎毒素(CTX)阻断淋巴细胞电压门控钾通道可抑制淋巴细胞有丝分裂。蝎毒素以0.3 nM的抑制常数(Ki)阻断离子传导,并以0.5 nM的Ki抑制有丝分裂原和抗原刺激的增殖。与淋巴细胞钾通道的其他阻断剂不同,外源性重组白细胞介素2(IL-2)可选择性地克服CTX对有丝分裂的抑制作用;刺激细胞培养上清液中IL-2的内源性水平因CTX的存在而降低。我们的结果表明,电压门控钾通道直接或间接参与IL-2的合成和/或分泌。