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Biophysical Journal 69: 1780-1788 (1995)
© 1995 the Biophysical Society
Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
ABSTRACT
Single channel activity of the cardiac ryanodine-sensitive calcium-release channel in planar lipid membranes was studied in order to elucidate the calcium-dependent mechanism of its steady-state behavior. The single channel kinetics, observed with Cs+ as the charge carrier at different activating (cis) Ca2+ concentrations in the absence of ATP and Mg2+, were similar to earlier reports and were extended by analysis of channel modal behavior. The channel displayed three episodic levels of open probability defining three gating modes: H (high activity), L (low activity), and I (no activity). The large difference in open probabilities between the two active modes resulted from different bursting patterns and different proportions of two distinct channel open states. I-mode was without openings and can be regarded as the inactivated mode of the channel; L-mode was composed of short and sparse openings; and H-mode openings were longer and grouped into bursts. Modal gating may explain calcium-release channel adaptation (as transient prevalence of H-mode after Ca2+ binding) and the inhibitory effects of drugs (as stabilization of mode I), and it provides a basis for understanding the regulation of calcium release.
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