Add time:08/29/2019         Source:sciencedirect.com

We investigated the effect of bisindolylmaleimide (I), a widely used protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, on the voltage-dependent K+ (Kv) currents of rat mesenteric arterial smooth muscle cells using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. Bisindolylmaleimide (I) reversibly and dose-dependently inhibited the Kv currents with an apparent Kd value of 0.23±0.001 μM. The blockade was apparently through the acceleration of the decay rate of the Kv currents. The apparent rate constants of association and dissociation for bisindolylmaleimide (I) were 17.9±1.6 μM−1 s−1 and 4.1±1.5 s−1, respectively. The inhibition of Kv current by bisindolylmaleimide (I) was steeply voltage-dependent between −30 and 0 mV (voltage range of channel activation). Bisindolylmaleimide (I) had no effect on the steady-state activation and inactivation of the Kv currents. Applications of trains of pulses at 1 or 2 Hz lead to a progressive increase in the bisindolylmaleimide (I)-blockade, and the recovery from bisindolylmaleimide (I)-block at −80 mV exhibited a time constant of 577.2±52.7 ms. Bisindolylmaleimide (V), an inactive analogue of bisindolylmaleimide (I), similarly inhibited the Kv currents with an apparent Kd value of 1.48±0.004 μM, but other PKC inhibitor chelerythrine little affected the Kv currents. These results suggest that bisindolylmaleimide (I) directly inhibits the Kv currents of rat mesenteric arterial smooth muscle cells independently of PKC inhibition, in a state-, voltage-, time- and use-dependent manner.

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