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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021
Long-term adaptation to a high-K diet is known to increase the density of conducting secretory K (SK) channels in the luminal membrane of the rat cortical collecting tubule (CCT). To examine whether these channels are involved in the short-term, day-to-day regulation of K secretion, we examined the density of K channels in animals fed a high-K diet for 6 or 48 h. CCTs were isolated and split open to provide access to the luminal membrane. Cell-attached patches were formed on principal cells with 140 mM KCl in the patch-clamp pipette. SK channels were recognized from their characteristic single-channel conductance (40-50 pS) and gating patterns. Animals fed a control diet had SK channel densities of 0.40 channels/µm2. When the diet was changed for one containing 10% KCl for 6 h, the channel density increased to 1.51 channels/µm2. Maintaining the animals on a high-K diet for 48 h resulted in a further increase in SK channels to 2.29 channels/µm2. Animals fed a low-K diet for 5 days or longer had SK densities of 0.53 channels/µm2, not significantly different from control values. The presence of conducting Na channels in the luminal membrane will also affect K secretion by the CCT by altering the electrical driving force through the K channels. The density of Na channels, measured with LiCl in the pipette, was 0.08 for controls and 1.00 and 1.08 channels/µm2 after 6 h and 48 h on a high-K diet. Plasma aldosterone increased from 15 ± 4 ng/dl (controls ) to 36 ± 8 and 98 ± 23 ng/dl after 6 and 48 h of K loading, respectively. The increase in K channel density could not be reproduced by infusion of the animals with aldosterone. We conclude that regulation of the density of conducting Na and K channels may contribute to day-to-day variation in the rate of renal K secretion and to the short-term maintenance of K balance.
renal potassium secretion; ROMK; potassium adaptation; aldosterone; plasma potassium
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