Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) activates nonselective cation currents in human cardiac fibroblasts: possible involvement of TRPA1

Autor: Gaku Oguri, Toshiaki Nakajima, Hironobu Kikuchi, Shotaro Obi, Fumitaka Nakamura, Issei Komuro
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Heliyon, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp e05816- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2405-8440
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05816
Popis: The effects of allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) agonist, on cultured human cardiac fibroblasts were examined by measuring intracellular Ca2+ concentration [Ca2+]i and whole-cell voltage clamp techniques. AITC (200 μM) increased Ca2+ entry in the presence of [Ca2+]i. Ruthenium red (RR) (30 μM), and La3+ (0.5 mM), a general cation channel blocker, inhibited AITC-induced Ca2+ entry. Under the patch pipette filled with Cs+- and EGTA-solution, AITC induced the current of a reversal potential (Er) of approximately +0 mV. When extracellular Na+ ion was changed by NMDG+, the inward current activated by AITC was markedly reduced. La3+ and RR inhibited the AITC-induced current. The conventional RT-PCR analysis, Western blot, and immunocytochemical studies showed TRPA1 mRNA and protein expression. The present study shows the first evidence for functional Ca2+-permeable nonselective cation currents induced by AITC, possibly via TRPA1 in human cardiac fibroblast.
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