UNIDIRECTIONAL SODIUM AND POTASSIUM FLUXES THROUGH THE SODIUM-CHANNEL OF SQUID GIANT-AXONS
UNIDIRECTIONAL SODIUM AND POTASSIUM FLUXES THROUGH THE SODIUM-CHANNEL OF SQUID GIANT-AXONS
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DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(82)84456-1
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
BEGENISICH, T
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作者:
BUSATH, D;BEGENISICH, T
Unidirectional 22Na-traced Na influx or 42K-traced K efflux across the membranes of voltage-clamped squid giant axons was measured at various membrane potentials under bi-ionic conditions. Tetrodotoxin almost entirely eliminated the extra K+ efflux induced by short repetitive depolarizations in the presence of tetraethylammonium or 3,4-diaminopyridine. A method of detering the voltage dependence of the unidirectional flux through voltage-gated channels is described. This technique was used to obtain the unidirectional flux-voltage relation for the Na channel in bi-ionic and single-ion conditions. It allows the determination of the unidirectional flux at the zero-current potential which, for inlux, was .apprx. 20% of the value measured 80 mV negative to the zero-current potential. The unidirectional flux ratio under bi-ionic conditions was also measured and the flux ratio exponent averaged 1.15 with an external Na solution and an internal K solution. A 3-barrier, 2-site, multi-occupancy model previously obtained for other conditions predicted a similar non-unity average for the flux ratio exponent. Some single-occupancy models can predict non-unity values for the flux ratio exponent in bi-ionic conditions.