Description
1-EBIO is an activator of Ca2+-sensitive K+ channels (EC50 = 490 μM in T84 human carcinoma cells).This action is sensitive to the neurotoxin charybdotoxin (Ki = 3.5 nM). In mouse colonic epithelia, 1-EBIO also activates cAMP-sensitive K+ channels, a response this is inhibited by 293B.In this type of epithelium, but not mouse nasal epithelia, 1-EBIO activates both types of channels, resulting in large Cl- secretory currents.It also activates the human intermediate conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel (EC50 = 74 μM).1-EBIO is currently used to study the role of these types of K+ channels in diverse physiological functions.
Definition
ChEBI: 1-Ethyl-2-benzimidazolinone is a member of imidazoles.
Biological Activity
Activator of epithelial K Ca channels, stimulates a large and sustained trans-epithelial Cl - secretory response across T84 monolayers. Induces hyperpolarization to the same magnitude as ACh in aortic value endothelial cells.
References
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2) Orfila?et al. (2014),?Increasing small conductance Ca2+-activated potassium channel activity reverses ischemia-induced impairment of long-term potentiation; Eur. J. Neurosci.,?40?3179
3) Allen?et al.?(2011),?SK2 channels are neuroprotective for ischemia-induced neuronal cell death; J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab.,?31?2302
4) Muller?et al. (2012),?Ca2+ activated K channels-new tools to induce cardiac commitment from pluripotent stem cells in mice and men; Stem Cell Rev.,?8?720
5) Fay?et al.?(2006),?SK channels mediate NADPH oxidase-independent reactive oxygen species production and apoptosis in granulocytes; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,?103?17548
