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Biophysical Journal 51: 497-502 (1987)
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Monovalent ion current through single calcium channels of skeletal muscle transverse tubules.

R Coronado and J S Smith

ABSTRACT

Akali monovalents, Li, Na, K, Cs, and organic monovalents of molecular cross section less than 20 A2, ammonium, methylammonium, hydrazinium, guanidinium, are shown to have a measurable conductance through Ca channels of muscle transverse tubules reconstituted into planar bilayers. For the alkali series, single channel conductances follow the sequence Cs approximately equal to K greater than Na greater than Li with a conductance ratio [g(Cs)/g(Li)] = 1.7. For permeability ratios, the sequence is Li greater than Na greater than K approximately equal to Cs with [P(Li)/P(Cs)] = 1.5. Monovalent current is only unmasked when Ba ions are not present. In mixtures of Cs and Ba, single channel current reverses close to the Ba equilibrium potential and more than 100 mV away from the Cs equilibrium potential. A cutoff in conduction is found for organic cations larger than trimethylammonium; this suggests an apparent pore aperture of about 5 X 5 A. Even in such a large pore, the fact that the alkali cation permeability sequence and conductance sequence are inverted rules out molecular sieving as the mechanism of selection among monovalents.




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