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Biophys J, March 1999, p. 1346-1366, Vol. 76, No. 3

Selectivity and Permeation in Calcium Release Channel of Cardiac Muscle: Alkali Metal Ions

Duan P. Chen,* Le Xu,# Ashutosh Tripathy,# Gerhard Meissner,# and Bob Eisenberg*

 *Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois 60612, and  #Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 USA

Current was measured from single open channels of the calcium release channel (CRC) of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (over the range ±180 mV) in pure and mixed solutions (e.g., biionic conditions) of the alkali metal ions Li+, K+, Na+, Rb+, Cs+, ranging in concentration from 25 mM to 2 M. The current-voltage (I-V) relations were analyzed by an extension of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) formulation of electrodiffusion, which includes local chemical interaction described by an offset in chemical potential, which likely reflects the difference in dehydration/solvation/rehydration energies in the entry/exit steps of permeation. The theory fits all of the data with few adjustable parameters: the diffusion coefficient of each ion species, the average effective charge distribution on the wall of the pore, and an offset in chemical potential for lithium and sodium ions. In particular, the theory explains the discrepancy between "selectivities" defined by conductance sequence and "selectivities" determined by the permeability ratios (i.e., reversal potentials) in biionic conditions. The extended PNP formulation seems to offer a successful combined treatment of selectivity and permeation. Conductance selectivity in this channel arises mostly from friction: different species of ions have different diffusion coefficients in the channel. Permeability selectivity of an ion is determined by its electrochemical potential gradient and local chemical interaction with the channel. Neither selectivity (in CRC) seems to involve different electrostatic interaction of different ions with the channel protein, even though the ions have widely varying diameters.

Biophys J, March 1999, p. 1346-1366, Vol. 76, No. 3
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