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The effects of toxin II (AaH II) isolated from the scorpion Androtonus australis Hector on sodium current in neuroblastoma X glioma NG 108-15 hybrid cells were analysed under patch clamp conditions in the whole cell configuration. AaH II (70 nM)_induced a maintained sodium current, as well as increasing both fast and slow inactivation time constants and the amplitude of the peak current. This latter effect occurred via a shift of the activation-voltage curve towards negative voltage values by about 9 mV. Oleic acid (5 μM), which had no effect on INa under control conditions, decreased the AaH II-induced maintained current. It also reversed, or prevented the increase of the peak current induced by AaH II. However, it neither prevented nor modified the AaH II-induced increase in inactivation time constants. The binding of the toxin to its specific site and the number of binding sites for AaH II were not significantly modified by oleic acid. The oleic acid-induced effects could not be related to the activation of protein kinase C since PMA, a potent activator of this enzyme, did not produce oleic acid-like effects. From these results, it is concluded that AaH II has several independent effects on sodium channels, some of which could be modulated by the lipid environment of sodium channels in the membrane.
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Jourdon, P., Berwald-Netter, Y., Houzet, E. et al. Effects of toxin II from the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector on sodium current in neuroblastoma cells and their modulation by oleic acid. Eur Biophys J 16, 351–356 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00257883
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