HETEROGENEOUS KINETIC-PROPERTIES OF ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR CHANNELS IN XENOPUS MYOCYTES
HETEROGENEOUS KINETIC-PROPERTIES OF ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR CHANNELS IN XENOPUS MYOCYTES
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1986.sp016211
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发表时间:
1986-09-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
LINGLE, CJ
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作者:
AUERBACH, A;LINGLE, CJ
1. We have used the cell-attached patch-clamp technique to examine the kinetic and conductance properties of acetylcholine receptor channel currents in cultured Xenopus myocytes. 2. At high agonist concentrations (5-100 .mu.M) the currents occurred in bursts of openings. The probability that a channel existed in an ion-conducting conformation during a burst (Po) was adopted as an empirical measure of channel kinetic behaviour. 3. All openings within a given burst were to the same mean current amplitude. However, different bursts could have openings with a mean conductance of either 46 pS (.gamma.40) or 64 pS (.gamma.60). 4. For .gamma.40 bursts there were three predominant populations which could be distinguished by their mean Po values (.apprx. 0.9, .apprx. 0.3, and < 0.01 at 20 .mu.M-acetylcholine). Po values increased as the acetylcholine concentration within the micropipette was increased. About 80% of bursts were from the highest Po population. 5. .gamma.60 bursts also occurred in three predominant modes. The highest Po population accounted for > 80% of all bursts and had a mean Po of .apprx. 0.6 at 20 .mu.M-acetylcholine. 6. For both .gamma.40 and .gamma.60 channels, bursts from the highest Po population had open-interval durations which were .apprx. 4 times longer than those from bursts from the medium Po population. Closed intervals from .gamma.40, high Po bursts were .apprx. 4 times shorter than those from medium Po bursts. 7. Occasional examples of switching between different kinetic modes were observed, suggesting that the Po population may represent different activity patterns of a homogeneous channel population.