SODIUM INACTIVATION AND DRUG-INDUCED IMMOBILIZATION OF THE GATING CHARGE IN NERVE MEMBRANE
SODIUM INACTIVATION AND DRUG-INDUCED IMMOBILIZATION OF THE GATING CHARGE IN NERVE MEMBRANE
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DOI:
10.1016/0079-6107(82)90020-7
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
KHODOROV, BI
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作者:
KHODOROV, BI
The electrical excitability of nerve and muscle is based on the properties of Na÷ and K÷ ion-selective channels able to open and close in response to changes of membrane potential. The molecular structure of the voltage-dependent ionic channels is not clarified as yet. Indirect evidence suggests that each ionic channel, with its" voltage-sensor", gates," selectivity filter", receptors, is a multisubunit protein aggregate spanning the membrane. However the isolation of the channel proteins for the purpose of biochemical analysis of their structural and functional properties is still at an early stage. Therefore all the modern conceptions of the ionic channels (see Hille, 1976, 1978, for reviews) are based largely on the data obtained in studying the effects of various chemicals (drugs, toxins, enzymes etc.) on the ionic currents, their fluctuations (" fluctuation analysis") and gating currents in nerve and muscle membranes (see Keynes; 1975, Hille, 1976, 1978; Ulbricht, 1977: Almers, 1978; Khoderov, 1979a, b, for reviews).Membrane depolarization has a dual effect on the gating machinery of the Na channel. The early activating effect of depolarization is a rapid rearrangement (conformational change) of the charged gating structures, which opens the activation (m) gate of the channels. This rearrangement generates the" on" gating current (lg). In Fig. la, b demonstrates the temporal relationship between this" on-response" and the inward sodium current,(INa) in the squid giant axon.