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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 254: F105-F113, 1988;
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AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 254, Issue 1 105-F113, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Single-channel analysis of a K channel at basolateral membrane of rabbit proximal convoluted tubule

L. Parent, J. Cardinal and R. Sauve
Membrane Transport Research Group, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The basolateral membrane of the rabbit proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) is known to be largely permeable to K ions. The patch-clamp technique was used to investigate the molecular basis of this K permeability. At room temperature and with a high-K solution (127 mM) in both the bathing medium and the patch pipette, current jumps associated with an inward-rectifying channel could be detected in every active cell-attached experiment. When the K concentration in the pipette was changed from 200 to 5 mM KCl (NaCl replacement), the single-channel conductance for inward currents changed from 54 to 10 pS. The observed shift in the zero current potential measured as a function of the patch pipette K concentration could be fitted using the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation with a permeability ratio PNa/PK = 0.06. The channel was found to be moderately voltage dependent (e-fold per 56 mV depolarization). For instance, the open-channel probability (Po) increased from 0.06 to 0.16 following a membrane depolarization from -50 to +50 mV. A time interval distribution analysis showed for the open state a dominant single time constant of 14 and 10 ms at 50 and -50 mV, respectively. Two time constants equal to 1 (flickering) and 26 ms at +50 mV and to 0.6 and 300 ms at -50 mV were obtained for the closed-state interval distribution. Based on this analysis, it was concluded that the decrease of Po at negative potentials was due more to the appearance of prolonged silent periods than from a change in the channel mean open time.


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