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Vol. 57, Issue 1, 101-107, January 2000

Preferential Block of Late Sodium Current in the LQT3 Delta KPQ Mutant by the Class IC Antiarrhythmic Flecainide

Toshihisa Nagatomo,1 Craig T. January, and Jonathan C. Makielski

Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Flecainide block of Na+ current (INa) was investigated in wild-type (WT) or the long QT syndrome 3 (LQT3) sodium channel alpha  subunit mutation with three amino acids deleted (Delta KPQ) stably transfected into human embryonic kidney 293 cells using whole-cell, patch-clamp recordings. Flecainide (1-300 mM) caused tonic and use-dependent block (UDB) of INa in a concentration-dependent manner. Compared with WT, Delta KPQ INa was more sensitive to flecainide, and flecainide preferentially inhibited late INa (mean current between 20 and 23.5 ms after depolarization) compared with peak INa. The IC50 value of peak and late INa for WT was 127 ± 6 and 44 ± 2 µM (n = 20) and for Delta KPQ was 80 ± 9 and 19 ± 2 µM (n = 31) respectively. UDB of peak INa was greater and developed more slowly during pulse trains for Delta KPQ than for WT. The IC50 value for UDB of peak INa for WT was 29 ± 4 µM (n = 20) and for Delta KPQ was 11 ± 1 µM (n = 26). For Delta KPQ, UDB of late INa was greater than for peak INa. Recovery from block was slower for Delta KPQ than for WT. We conclude that Delta KPQ interacts differently with flecainide than with WT, leading to increased block and slowed recovery, especially for late INa. These data provide insights into mechanisms for flecainide block and provide a rationale at the cellular and molecular level that open channel block may be a useful pharmacological property for treatment of LQT3.


1 Current affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.


Copyright © 2000 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics



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