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The whole-cell configuration of the patch-clamp technique was applied on the clonal insulin-producing cell line RINm5). Thus attempts were made to characterize voltage-activated inward and outward membrane currents and to examine to what extent these were affected by both long-term and acute exposure to the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Current responses to voltage-clamp steps up to -40 mV were small. A pulse to -28 mV evoked an inward current, and slowly activating outward currents developed at potentials above -20 mV. The inward current had a V-shaped current-voltage relationship, reaching a peak between -10 and 0 mV, whereas the outward current increased linearly at potentials beyond -20 mV. It was demonstrated that the inward currents are carried primarily by Ca2+ and Na+ and the outward current by K+. After long-term exposure to TPA, there was a suppression of Na+ currents in one-third of the cells, whereas the Ca2+ and K+ currents were unaffected. Acute exposure to the phorbol ester increased the Ca2+ currents with little effect on the Na+ currents. The extent to which the differences in effects on membrane currents initiated by respective acute and long-term exposure to TPA may reflect two separate mechanisms of protein kinase C activation, the latter related to regulation of differentiation of the RINm5F cells, merits further investigation.

Original publication

DOI

10.1152/ajpcell.1986.251.6.C912

Type

Journal article

Journal

Am J Physiol

Publication Date

12/1986

Volume

251

Pages

C912 - C919

Keywords

Action Potentials, Adenoma, Islet Cell, Animals, Calcium, Cell Line, Clone Cells, Insulin, Insulin Secretion, Insulinoma, Ion Channels, Membrane Potentials, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Rats, Sodium, Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate