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A functional CFTR-NBF1 is required for ROMK2-CFTR interaction

C. M. McNicholas, M. W. Nason Jr, W. B. Guggino, E. M. Schwiebert, S. C. Hebert, G. Giebisch and M. E. Egan
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8026, USA.

In a previous study on inside-out patches of Xenopus oocytes, we demonstrated that the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) enhances the glibenclamide sensitivity of a coexpressed inwardly rectifying K+ channel, ROMK2 (C. M. McNicholas, W. B. Guggino, E. M. Schwiebert, S. C. Hebert, G. Giebisch, and M. E. Egan. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 8083-8088, 1996). In the present study, we used the two-microelectrode voltage-clamp technique to measure whole cell K+ currents in Xenopus oocytes, and we further characterized the enhanced sensitivity of ROMK2 to glibenclamide by CFTR. Glibenclamide inhibited K+ currents by 56% in oocytes expressing both ROMK2 and CFTR but only 11% in oocytes expressing ROMK2 alone. To examine the role of the first nucleotide binding fold (NBF1) of CFTR in the ROMK2-CFTR interaction, we studied the glibenclamide sensitivity of ROMK2 when coexpressed with CFTR constructs containing mutations in or around the NBF1 domain. In oocytes coinjected with ROMK2 and a truncated construct of CFTR with an intact NBF1 (CFTR-K593X), glibenclamide inhibited K+ currents by 46%. However, in oocytes coinjected with ROMK2 and a CFTR mutant truncated immediately before NBF1 (CFTR-K370X), glibenclamide inhibited K+ currents by 12%. Also, oocytes expressing both ROMK2 and CFTR mutants with naturally occurring NBF1 point mutations, CFTR-G551D or CFTR-A455E, display glibenclamide-inhibitable K+ currents of only 14 and 25%, respectively. Because CFTR mutations that alter the NBF1 domain reduce the glibenclamide sensitivity of the coexpressed ROMK2 channel, we conclude that the NBF1 motif is necessary for the CFTR-ROMK2 interaction that confers sulfonylurea sensitivity.

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