SOLUBILIZATION AND FUNCTIONAL RECONSTITUTION OF A CHLORIDE CHANNEL FROM TORPEDO-CALIFORNICA ELECTROPLAX
SOLUBILIZATION AND FUNCTIONAL RECONSTITUTION OF A CHLORIDE CHANNEL FROM TORPEDO-CALIFORNICA ELECTROPLAX
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01994354
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发表时间:
1991-12-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
MILLER, C
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作者:
GOLDBERG, AFX;MILLER, C
Chloride channels were detergent-extracted from Torpedo electroplax plasma membrane vesicles and reconstituted into liposomes by rapid detergent removal and a freeze-thaw-sonication procedure. Concentrative uptake of Cl-36-, driven by a Cl- gradient was used to determine conductance properties of reconstituted channels. Chloride flux assayed by this method is strongly selective for Cl- over cations, is blocked by SCN-, inactivated by treatment with DIDS, and exhibits an anion selectivity sequence Cl- > Br- > F- > SO4(2-), as does the voltage-gated Cl- channel from Torpedo observed in planar lipid bilayers. The channels are localized to the noninnervated face of the electrocyte, and a novel trapped-volume method is used to estimate a channel density on the order of 500 pmol/mg protein. An initial fractionation of the membrane extract by anion exchange chromatography yields fivefold enrichment of the channel activity.