Biophysical Journal 65: 2013-2020 (1993)
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Temperature dependence of unitary properties of an ATP-dependent potassium channel in cardiac myocytes.

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

ABSTRACT

The temperature dependence of the properties of unitary currents in cultured rat ventricular myocytes has been studied. Currents flowing through an ATP-dependent K+ channel were recorded from inside-out patches with the bath temperature varied from 10 degrees to 30 degrees C. The channel conductance was 56 pS at room temperature (22 degrees C), and the amplitudes of unitary currents and the channel conductance exhibited a relatively weak (Q10 from 1.4 to 1.6) dependence on temperature. The temperature dependence of channel mean open times was biphasic with the low temperature (10-20 degrees C) range showing a relatively stronger temperature dependence (Q10 of 2.3) than the high temperature (20-30 degrees C) range (Q10 of 1.6). The activation energies for the two regions were determined from an Arrhenius plot with the activation energy, corresponding to the lower temperature range, near 16 kcal/mol. Thermodynamic analysis, using transition rate theory, indicated that the formation of a transition state prior to channel closure to be associated with a positive entropy component for the high Q10 region.

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