Abstract：
:Avermectins are a family of potent broad-spectrum anthelmintic compounds, which bind with high affinity to membranes isolated from the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Binding of avermectins is thought to modulate chloride channel activity, but the exact mechanism for anthelmintic activity remains to be determined. In this report, the properties of an avermectin-sensitive membrane current were evaluated in Xenopus laevis oocytes that were injected with poly(A)+ RNA from C. elegans. In such oocytes, avermectins increased inward membrane current at a holding potential of -80 mV. An avermectin analog without anthelmintic activity had no effect. Half-maximal activation of current was observed with 90 nM avermectin. The reversal potential for avermectin-sensitive current was -19.3 +/- 1.9 mV, and it shifted with external chloride, as expected for a chloride current. Avermectin increased membrane current in C. elegans-injected oocytes that were also injected with the Ca2+ chelator ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid. The response to avermectin was greatest in the 1.0-2.5-kilobase class of size-fractionated C. elegans poly(A)+ RNA. Oocytes that responded to avermectin were insensitive to gamma-aminobutyric acid and the avermectin-induced current was blocked by picrotoxin.
journal_name
Mol Pharmacoljournal_title
Molecular pharmacologyauthors
Arena JP,Liu KK,Paress PS,Cully DFsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-09-01 00:00:00pages
368-74issue
3eissn
0026-895Xissn
1521-0111journal_volume
40pub_type
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