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A L Finn1, E V Kuzhikandathil, G S Oxford
1Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. afinn@med.unc.edu
Background & Aims:
We previously isolated a monoclonal antibody against a Necturus gallbladder epitope that blocks native adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent chloride channels in intestine, gallbladder, urinary bladder, and airway epithelia in various animals.
Methods:
Using this antibody, we purified a 200-kilodalton protein that, when reconstituted in lipid bilayers, forms 9-pS chloride channels that are blocked by the antibody.
Results:
Amino acid sequencing of the purified protein showed strong homology to rabbit sucrase-isomaltase, an abundant intestinal enzyme. Western blot analysis of the in vitro-translated sucrase-isomaltase was indistinguishable from that of the protein used in the lipid bilayer studies. Expression of this protein in Chinese hamster ovary cells and in Xenopus laevis oocytes yielded cAMP-dependent chloride currents that in the latter system were blocked by the antibody.
Conclusions:
Because the monoclonal antibody blocks cAMP-dependent currents in epithelia as well as those produced both by the reconstituted and by the heterologously expressed protein, sucrase-isomaltase is a cAMP-dependent epithelial chloride channel. Thus an enzyme that can also function as an ion channel has been described for the first time.
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