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Title: | Maxi K+ channels in the basolateral membrane of the exocrine frog-skin gland regulated by intracellular calcium and pH | Authors: | Andersen, H.K. URBACH, V VAN KERKHOVE, Emmy PROSSER, E HARVEY, BJ |
Issue Date: | 1995 | Publisher: | SPRINGER VERLAG | Source: | PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, 431(1). p. 52-65 | Abstract: | With the single-channel patch-clamp technique we have identified Ca2+-sensitive, high-conductance (maxi) K+ channels in the basolateral membrane (BLM) of exocrine gland cells in frog skin, Under resting conditions, maxi K+ channels were normally quiescent, but they were activated by muscarinic agonists or by high serosal K+. In excised inside-out patches and with symmetrical 140 mmol/l K+, single-channel conductance was 200 pS and the channel exhibited a high selectivity for K+ over Na+. Depolarization of the BLM increased maxi K+ channel activity. Increasing cytosolic free Ca2+ (by addition of 100 nmol/l thapsigargin to the bathing solution of cell-attached patches also increased channel activity, whereas thapsigargin had no effect when added to excised inside-out patches, An increase in cytosolic free Ca2+ directly activated channel activity in a voltage-dependent manner, Maxi K+ channel activity was sensitive to changes in intracellular pH, with maximal activity at pH 7.4 and decreasing activities following acidification and alkalinization. Maxi K+ channel outward current was reversibly blocked by micromolar concentrations of Ba2+ from the cytosolic and extracellular site, and was irreversibly blocked by micromolar concentrations of charybdotoxin and kaliotoxin from the extracellular site in outside-out patches. | Notes: | NATL UNIV IRELAND UNIV COLL CORK,DEPT PHYSIOL,CELLULAR PHYSIOL RES UNIT,CORK,IRELAND. LIMBURGS UNIV CENTRUM,DEPT MBW FYSIOL,B-3590 DIEPENBEEK,BELGIUM.ANDERSEN, HK, AUGUST KROGH INST,ZOOPHYSIOL LAB,UNIV PK 13,DK-2100 COPENHAGEN O,DENMARK. | Keywords: | CALCIUM; FROG SKIN GLANDS; MAXI K+ CHANNEL; PATCH CLAMP; PH; THAPSIGARGIN | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/3516 | ISI #: | A1995TG33200007 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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