Biophysical Journal 57: 883-891 (1990)
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How does vestibule surface charge affect ion conduction and toxin binding in a sodium channel?

Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254.

ABSTRACT

We describe various models for the dielectric geometry and pore mouth charge distribution of a Na channel. The electric potential due to the vestibule charges is then computed on the basis of the nonlinear Possion-Boltzmann equation. The results are used to account for the effect of permeant ion concentration and ionic strength on channel conductance and on toxin association rate constants for Na channels. We find that a single negatively charged group near the entrance to the channel constriction is adequate to account for deviations from Michaelis-Menten conductance kinetics and for the concentration dependence of toxin-binding coefficients. We find further that only a limited range of vestibule geometries and pore mouth charge distributions are consistent with experiment.

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