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Volume 17, Number 8,
Issue of April 15, 1997
pp. 2669-2682
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
K+ Channel Expression and Cell Proliferation Are
Regulated by Intracellular Sodium and Membrane Depolarization in
Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells
Received Dec. 23, 1996; revised Jan. 28, 1997; accepted Jan. 30, 1997.
Peter Knutson,
Cristina A. Ghiani,
Jia-Min Zhou,
Vittorio Gallo, and
Chris J. McBain
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4495
The effects of a variety of antiproliferative agents on
voltage-dependent K+ channel function in cortical
oligodendrocyte progenitor (O-2A) cells were studied. Previously, we
had shown that glutamate receptor activation reversibly inhibited O-2A
cell proliferation stimulated by mitogenic factors and prevented
lineage progression by attenuating outward K+ currents in
O-2A cells. We now show that the antiproliferative actions of glutamate
receptor activation are Ca2+-independent and arise from an
increase in intracellular Na+ and subsequent block of
outward K+ currents. In support of this mechanism, agents
that acted to depolarize O-2A cells or increase intracellular sodium
similarly had an antiproliferative effect, attributable at least in
part to a reduction in voltage-gated K+ currents. Also,
these effects were reversible and Ca2+-independent. Chronic
treatment with glutamate agonists was without any long-term effect on
K+ current function. Cells cultured in elevated
K+, however, demonstrated an upregulation of inward
rectifier K+ currents, concomitant with an
hyperpolarization of the resting membrane potential. This culture
condition therefore promoted a current phenotype typical of
pro-oligodendroblasts. Finally, cells chronically treated with the
mitotic inhibitor retinoic acid displayed a selective downregulation of
outward K+ currents. In conclusion, signals that affect
O-2A cell proliferation do so by regulating K+ channel
function. These data indicate that the regulation of K+
currents in cells of the oligodendrocyte lineage plays an important role in determining their proliferative potential and demonstrate that
O-2A cell K+ current phenotype can be modified by long-term
depolarization of the cell membrane.
Key words:
potassium channels;
O-2A progenitors;
cell proliferation;
glial development;
depolarization;
lineage progression
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