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Biophysical Journal 59: 1164-1170 (1991)
© 1991 the Biophysical Society
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0450.
ABSTRACT
Currents flowing through single stretch-inactivated ion channels were recorded from cell-attached patches on myotubes from mdx mice. Adding micromolar concentrations of gadolinium to patch electrodes containing normal saline produced rapid transitions in the single-channel current between the fully open and closed states. The kinetics of the current fluctuations followed the predictions of a simple model of open channel block in which the transitions in the current arise from the entry and exit of Gd from the channel pore: histograms of the open and closed times were well fit with single exponentials, the blocking rate depended linearly on the concentration of gadolinium in the patch electrode, and the unblocking rate was independent of the concentration of gadolinium. Hyperpolarizing the patch increased the rate of unblocking (approximately e-fold per 85 mV), suggesting the charged blocking particle can exit the channel into the cell under the influence of the applied membrane field. The rate of blocking was rapid and was independent of the patch potential, consistent with the rate of ion entry into the pore being determined by its rate of diffusion in solution. When channel open probability was reduced by applying suction to the electrode, the blocking kinetics were independent of the extent of inactivation, suggesting that mechanosensitive gating does not modify the structure of the channel pore.
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