Quenched flow technique with plasma membrane vesicles: acetylcholine receptor-mediated transmembrane ion flux.
Quenched flow technique with plasma membrane vesicles: acetylcholine receptor-mediated transmembrane ion flux.
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质膜囊泡猝灭流技术:乙酰胆碱受体介导的跨膜离子流。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(81)90257-8
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Hess,GP
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作者:
Cash,DJ;Hess,GP
The construction and use of a versatile quenched flow machine suitable for use with small volumes of membrane vesicle suspension with a wide range of incubation times is described. Several sequential incubations can be made and the mixing can be performed with different dilutions. The design allows great versatility in plumbing which can be changed readily during an experiment. The time course of ion influx and efflux mediated by acetylcholine receptor was followed with varying ligand concentration using membrane vesicles with reaction times ranging from 5 ms to minutes. These measurements expose the varying response to different ligands, and the different ligand dependencies of ion flux and inactivation of receptor. Inactivation of the receptor by ligand and its recovery after dilution of ligand were studied by double incubation and concentration jump techniques. Problems particularly associated with the use of membrane vesicles in a rapid mixing system are considered. Breakage of the vesicles, studied with labeled membrane as an internal standard, was usually small but could be significant depending on the tubing arrangement and membrane preparation. Breakage, when observed, occurred very reproducibly. The mixing-quenching dead time with the vesicle system was apparently greater than that measured with a model hydrolysis reaction. This discrepancy may be attributable to the low diffusion rate of the vesicles.