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Expression of thermosensitive two-pore domain K+ channels in human keratinocytes cell line HaCaT cells
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- Issue Date
- 2007-10-08
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Citation
- Exp Dermatol 2007;16:1016-1022
- Keywords
- keratinocytes ; potassium channels ; tandem-pore domain ; temperature sense
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- Abstract
- Recent studies have shown that keratinocytes can sense temperature via thermo-transient receptor potential (TRP) channels. It is not known whether other thermosensitive ion channels such as TREK-1, TREK-2 and TRAAK (TREKs ⁄ TRAAK) that are members of the two-pore domain K+ (K2P) channel family are expressed in human keratinocytes. Here, we identified the expression of TREKs ⁄ TRAAK in human keratinocytes-derived cell line HaCaT cells using RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry, Western blot analysis and patch-clamp technique. RT-PCR showed that all six K2P channels tested (TASK-1, TASK-3, TREK-1, TREK-2, TRAAK and TASK-2) were expressed in HaCaT cells, as well as in skin and dorsal root ganglion (DRG) of rat. The expression of TREKs ⁄ TRAAK mRNA identified by RT-PCR was further studied at the protein level. Using anti-TREK-1, -TREK-2 and -TRAAK, bands of 46, 60 and 43 kDa, respectively, were observed at plasma membrane of HaCaT cells. Immunostaining also showed that TREK-1, TREK-2 and TRAAK were expressed in all area of cells including plasma membrane. Whole-cell K+ currents recorded from HaCaT cells were activated by arachidonic acid and heat. These results suggest that TREKs ⁄ TRAAK channels could act as thermosensors in human keratinocytes.
- ISSN
- 0906-6705 (print)
1600-0625 (online)
- Language
- English
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0625.2007.00626.x
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0625.2007.00626.x
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