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Biophysical Journal 64: 339-356 (1993)
© 1993 the Biophysical Society
Physiologisches Institut, Technischen Universität, München, Germany.
ABSTRACT
In outside-out patches of mouse-muscle membrane, embryonic-like channels were activated by pulses of acetylcholine (ACh). On increasing the ACh concentration, the rate of desensitization, 1/tau d, increased linearly with the peak open probability, indicating desensitization from the open state. Desensitization had only one time constant tau d at each ACh concentration. Recovery from desensitization was only approximately 10 times slower than desensitization, whereas the probability of steady-state channel opening, declined to < 0.01 with > 10(-6) M ACh. The peak probability of opening in > 10(-4) M ACh pulse was close to 1. A linear reaction scheme was not compatible with these results. The scheme had to be expanded resulting in a circular scheme with two additional ACh binding steps to desensitized channel states. The approximate rate constants of all reaction steps in the circular scheme could be determined using computer simulations. The model predicted that clusters of channel opening had the average duration tau d at the respective ACh concentration. In cell-attached patches on intact muscle fibers, similar average cluster durations were observed at the respective ACh concentration. This indicates that tau d in the intact muscle fibers has similar values as in outside-out patches.
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