AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 5 621-F627, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Cl- channels in basolateral renal medullary vesicles. IX. Channels from mouse MTAL cell patches and medullary vesicles

W. B. Reeves, C. J. Winters, D. M. Filipovic and T. E. Andreoli
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Little Rock, USA.

The experiments reported herein compared Cl- channels fused into bilayers from rabbit outer medullary vesicles with Cl- channels in excised patches of basolateral membranes from cultured mouse medullary thick ascending limb (MTAL) cells and evaluated whether the latter were plausible candidates for the Cl- channels mediating net NaCl absorption in microperfused mouse MTAL segments. The unique signature characteristics of Cl- channels incorporated into lipid bilayers from outer medullary vesicles include activation of open probability (Po) by increases in the Cl- concentrations bathing intracellular faces; activation of Po by protein kinase A (PKA) + ATP, when the Cl- concentrations bathing intracellular faces are low; and no effect of PKA + ATP on Po with high cytoplasmic-face Cl- concentrations. These same properties were observed in Cl- channels studied using excised patches of basolateral membranes from mouse MTAL cells. Moreover, in both bilayers and in excised patches, the sharpest fractional increase in Cl- channel Po occurred with cytosolic-face Cl- concentration increases to values similar to the antidiuretic hormone (ADH)-dependent values of intracellular Cl- activity in microperfused mouse MTAL segments, and these fractional Po increases were adequate to account quantitatively for the ADH-dependent increase in basolateral membrane Cl- conductance in microperfused mouse MTAL segments. Thus the excised-patch basolateral Cl- channels reported here are reasonable candidates for those mediating net Cl- absorption in the MTAL.

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