Abstract

Palytoxin (PTX), a highly toxic and sugar-containing substance isolated from Palythoa tuberculosa, caused K + release from rabbit red blood cells. Cardiac glycosides, such as ouabain, convallatoxin, cymarin, digoxin and digitoxin, inhibited the PTX-induced K + release. Their corresponding aglycones did not inhibit the K + release, but antagonized the inhibitory effect of the glycosides. All these cardiotonic steroids equally inhibited the activity of (Na + + K +-ATPase prepared from hog cerebral cortex. These results suggest that the sugar moiety of the cardiac glycosides is important for the inhibitory effect on the K + release induced by PTX and that the inhibition is not related to their inhibitory potency on the (Na + + K +)-ATPase activity.

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