“…In the myocardium, ~-adrenergic agonists regulate a variety of ionic currents (for reviews, see Hartzell, 1988;Gadsby, 1990), including a CI-current identified recently in guinea pig and rabbit ventricular myocytes (Harvey and Hume, 1989;Bahinski, Nairn, Greengard, and Gadsby, 1989b;Matsuoka, Ehara, and Noma, 1990). Activation of that CI-conductance requires phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) because the CI-conductance can be elicited by direct intracellular application of either cAMP or the catalytic subunit of PKA (Bahinski et al, 1989b), and it can be abolished (Bahinski, Gadsby, Greengard, and Nairn, 1989a;Hwang, Horie, Nairn, and Gadsby, 1992c) by intracellular application of a specific peptide inhibitor of PKA (PKI; i.e., Walsh inhibitor, 5-24-amide; Cheng, Kemp, Pearson, Smith, Misconi, Van Patten, and Walsh, 1986).…”