Correspondence to: Enrico Stefani, UCLA School of Medicine, Department. of Anesthesiology, BH-509A CHS, Box 957115, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7115. Fax (310) 825-6649; E-mail:estefani{at}ucla.edu.
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Abstract |
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In Shaker K+ channel, the amino terminus deletion 6-46 removes fast inactivation (N-type) unmasking a slow inactivation process. In Shaker
6-46 (Sh-IR) background, two additional mutations (T449V-I470C) remove slow inactivation, producing a noninactivating channel. However, despite the fact that Sh-IR-T449V-I470C mutant channels remain conductive, prolonged depolarizations (1 min, 0 mV) produce a shift of the QV curve by about -30 mV, suggesting that the channels still undergo the conformational changes typical of slow inactivation. For depolarizations longer than 50 ms, the tail currents measured during repolarization to -90 mV display a slow component that increases in amplitude as the duration of the depolarizing pulse increases. We found that the slow development of the QV shift had a counterpart in the amplitude of the slow component of the ionic tail current that is not present in Sh-IR. During long depolarizations, the time course of both the increase in the slow component of the tail current and the change in voltage dependence of the charge movement could be well fitted by exponential functions with identical time constant of 459 ms. Single channel recordings revealed that after prolonged depolarizations, the channels remain conductive for long periods after membrane repolarization. Nonstationary autocovariance analysis performed on macroscopic current in the T449V-I470C mutant confirmed that a novel open state appears with increasing prepulse depolarization time. These observations suggest that in the mutant studied, a new open state becomes progressively populated during long depolarizations (>50 ms). An appealing interpretation of these results is that the new open state of the mutant channel corresponds to a slow inactivated state of Sh-IR that became conductive.
Key Words: gating current, slow inactivation, C/P-type inactivation, nonstationary noise analysis
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INTRODUCTION |
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In the absence of the fast N-type inactivation, the Shaker K+ channel displays slow inactivation. Slow inactivation is one of the mechanisms by which ion channels become nonconducting during prolonged depolarization. In Shaker channels, it involves a cooperative conformational change of the channel subunits associated to rearrangements of the outer side of the pore (6-46, fast inactivation removed [Sh-IR];
6-46 background (Sh-IR), the double mutation T449V-I470C (
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Molecular Biology and Oocyte Injection
cDNA encoding for the Shaker H4 K+ channel (
Gating and Ionic Current Recording
Cut-Open Oocyte Voltage Clamp.
Gating currents were recorded 15 d after injection using the cut-open Vaseline gap voltage clamp (
Patch-Clamp Recordings.
For experiments in the cell-attached configuration, after removal of the vitelline membrane, macroscopic and single channel currents were recorded in a solution containing the following (in mM): 120 KMES, 10 HEPES, and 2 CaCl2 for bath and pipet. Pipet resistances were 23 M for macroscopic currents and 2050 M
for single channel recordings. All recording and perfusion solutions were buffered at pH 7.0. All experiments were performed at a room temperature of 2224°C. The filter cut-off frequency was one fifth of the sampling frequency.
Fluctuation Analysis and Conditional Open Probability
Analysis of macroscopic ionic current traces used the following relation (
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The quantity P11(t2|t1) is the probability that a channel is open at time t2, given that it was open at the reference time t1. It will be referred to as conditional open probability (COP).1 The other terms in the equation are the ensemble autocovariance function C(t2,t1), the mean current I(t), the unitary current i, and the number of channels N in the preparation.
For t1 = t2, the autocovariance function is equivalent to the variance, P11(t2|t1) = 1, and Equation 1 reduces to the well known result describing the stationary variance (. For each experiment, ensemble traces were collected for two voltage protocols. The short protocol used a depolarizing test pulse to 30 mV for 40 ms, and then returning to -100 mV. The long protocol was similar except for a test pulse duration of 300 ms. Acquisition was sampled at 50 kHz and filtered at 10 kHz for the short protocol, and sampled at 5 kHz and filtered at 1 kHz for the long protocol. Linear leak and capacity transient subtraction for the purpose of obtaining the mean ionic current was performed online using the P/-4 procedure. The procedure for obtaining the autocovariance function used pair-wise analysis of traces and was described previously (Sigg et. al., 1994). In the short pulse ensemble, 200 records were used, with <5% overall drift of the current. Analysis of groups 2, 5, and 10 did not produce any significant difference in variance. The time between pulses was 15 s at -100 mV. In the case of the Sh-IR-T449V-I470C mutant, the channel noise in the tail current was easily observable above background noise and required approximately 10 s to disappear altogether. The long pulse ensemble included 100 records for Sh-IR and 84 for Sh-IR-T449V-I470C. There was <10% overall drift of the ionic current, which again produced no noticeable difference in variance between groups of 2 and 5, and only minor changes with groups of 10.
Conditional Open Probability Analysis
Although, on the surface, single channel analysis would be the preferred method of obtaining such information, the ensemble method has several advantages. First, the data acquisition is simpler. Second, the ensemble technique samples a larger number of channels, thus, averaging out minor differences in kinetics within the population. Last, open events may occur rarely for large reference times, which could lead to under sampling at a low open probability. For rare events, and in the absence of contaminating channels, the ensemble method has greater statistical accuracy, which is only matched by conventional single channel analysis using a very large number of records.
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RESULTS |
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Lack of Inactivation in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C: Macroscopic and Single Channel Currents
In Sh-IRexpressing oocytes, the ionic conductance decays slowly as the channels become slow inactivated. As shown by Fig 1 (left), long depolarizations in symmetrical K+ conditions elicit an outward (+50 mV) or an inward (-45 mV) K+ current that activates rapidly and partially inactivate during the 8-s pulse. At the end of the pulse, when the potential returns to the holding potential (-90 mV), the channels deactivate quickly as indicated by the fast kinetic of the tail currents. In identical conditions and during pulses of the same duration, the double mutant Sh-IR-T449V-I470C does not show ionic current inactivation (Fig 1, right). Instead, the onset of the current (particularly at negative potentials) shows two components: a fast component with a time course very similar to the one of Sh-IR; and a second very slow component with time constants that are comparable to the ones seen for the slow inactivation in Sh-IR. For a stronger depolarization (+50 mV; Fig 1, right), the slow component is less evident. The deactivation of the double mutant at the end of the 8-s pulse shows a much slower time course when compared with Sh-IR. The slow activation kinetics of the mutant suggests the occupancy of a new state during the pulse.
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The behavior of Sh-IR-T449V-I470C currents is evident in the single channel records illustrated in Fig 2. Although the activity of Sh-IR ceased after a few seconds because of slow inactivation (Fig 2 A), even if the depolarization to 50 mV is maintained, in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, the channel activity continued for the full duration of the pulse (Fig 2 C). Moreover, after repolarization to -90 mV at the end of the long pulse, the channel activity continued for a few seconds before the channel closed. The single channel IV plot of Fig 2 E shows that the double mutation also reduced the single channel conductance of the Shaker channel from 17 to 9 pS.
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In the Double Mutant, the Slow Component of the Macroscopic Current during Activation at -45 mV Is Produced by Long Single Channel Openings, Not Observed in Sh-IR
As shown in Fig 1, in the double mutant, the activation of the ionic current at -45 mV has a fast onset followed by a second slower component, suggesting that a new open state becomes populated during the depolarizing pulse. We have examined the single channel activity at this potential to determine the origin of the two components of the activation. Fig 3 A shows that long (3.2 s) depolarizing pulses to -45 mV elicited three different modes of activity in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C. At the beginning of the depolarization, the mutant channel mainly displays brief openings (Mode 1, *). As the depolarization proceeds, a new open state, characterized by a higher open probability with some flickering (Mode 2, **), becomes populated. In some cases, the flickering activity is replaced by a long opening without flickering (Mode 3, ***; Fig 3 A). The fact that the mean current during Modes 2 and 3 has a similar value may suggest that during Mode 3, a very fast flickering that is not resolved by the recording bandwidth may occur. These three modes of operation are well illustrated in the consecutive single channel records in Fig 3 A. The ensemble average of 30 single channel records shown in Fig 3 B reproduces the biphasic activation observed at the same potential in the macroscopic current records (Fig 1 B).
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On the other hand, in Sh-IR the single channel activity at -45 mV is characterized by brief openings that closely resemble Mode 1 of Sh-IR-T449V-I470C (Fig 3 C). The ensemble average of Sh-IR single channel records (Fig 3 D) produced a fast rising current, which slowly decayed as slow inactivation developed. In summary, single channel recordings of Sh-IR-T449V-I470C show at least two new classes of openings (Modes 2 and 3) with higher open probability that underlie the slow component of activation. Thus, it seems that the main effect of the double mutation is to change the kinetics of channel opening and closing. However, a closer look at the records shows that during the long opening, the channel tends to be stabilized to a somewhat lower conductance state. Brief openings during Mode 1 gating have an average peak amplitude of approximately -0.45 pA at -45 mV, as shown in the single channel I-V plot in Fig 2 E. On the other hand, during Mode 2 gating, the channel is stabilized to an average conductance state with a lower amplitude of approximately -0.3 pA. Flickering openings during Mode 2 have a similar peak amplitude as Mode 1, but we cannot determine whether the flickering openings during Mode 2 correspond to fast transitions between Modes 1 and 2 or is an intrinsic activity during Mode 2.
During Short Depolarizations Sh-IR and Sh-IR-T449V-I470C Show Similar Properties
We compared Sh-IR and Sh-IR-T449V-I470C properties during pulses of 40-ms pulse duration. As shown in Fig 4, both clones behave similarly during short depolarizations. The family of K+ current traces from an oocyte expressing Sh-IR-T449V-I470C (Fig 4 A) is practically identical to the family of current traces elicited from Sh-IR (Fig 4 C). The tail currents that, according to Fig 1, are expected to be slower in the double mutant after long depolarization, have a similar time course in the two clones with short depolarizing pulses (40 ms). The current-voltage relationship (IV) curves for the two clones shown in Fig 4 (B and (D) are virtually indistinguishable, suggesting that the two clones behave similarly for short pulses before the slow inactivation process develops.
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Depolarized Holding Potentials Produce a Left Shift of The QV Curve in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C
Slow (C/P-type) inactivation causes a molecular rearrangement of the channel protein that leads to a nonconductive (inactivated) state. We have previously shown that in Sh-IR the midpoint of QV measured from slow inactivated channels is shifted to more negative potentials with respect to the normally hyperpolarized channel (30 mV with respect to the QV curve obtained from gating current elicited from HP = -90 mV (Fig 5 C, open circle). For comparison, Fig 5 (DF) shows a similar experiment for Sh-IR. The records are gating currents from Sh-IR, from HP = -90 mV (Fig 5 D) and from 0 mV (Fig 5 E). As reported by
40 mV) when compared with the QV curve constructed from gating currents from normally hyperpolarized channels (HP =-90 mV, open circle).
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In Sh-IR-T449V-I470C Long Depolarizations Populate a New Open State that Is Also Revealed by a Slower Deactivation Rate
The left shift of the QV curve in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, when the channels are held at HP = 0 mV, is an indication of a conformational change that occurs during long depolarization. However, this conformational change, which in Sh-IR leads to a nonconducting inactivated state, does not produce a reduction in current in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C (Fig 1 and Fig 2). Instead, as shown in Fig 3 (A and B), two classes of openings are clearly distinguishable during depolarization to -45 mV. In Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, the population of a new state during depolarizations seems evident also in the tail current. Therefore, we investigated the development of a possible slow conformational change by studying changes in tail currents as a function of the depolarizing pulse duration.
In Fig 6, we compared tail currents in both clones during repolarization to -90 mV with preceding depolarizations of different duration. The tail currents were sampled immediately after depolarizations to 0 mV with durations ranging from 10 ms to 2 s. The top panel (Fig 6 A) illustrates that the tail current deactivation decay rates in Sh-IR are not affected by the duration of the depolarization to 0 mV. All of the tail currents decay quickly with similar time constant when the membrane is repolarized to -90 mV, with no relationship to the duration of the depolarization. In oocytes expressing Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, the tail currents, after brief depolarizations, were fast and similar to Sh-IR (Fig 6 B, 10-ms pulse to 0 mV). However, by increasing the duration of the depolarizations, a new slow component in the tail current becomes evident. The amplitude of the slow component of the tail current correlates with the depolarizing pulse duration, indicating that a new conducting state becomes populated during the long depolarizations. To establish the dependence of the slow component on the duration of the depolarizations, we performed a simultaneous fit of the tail current decaying phases recorded after pulses to 0 mV of 10, 40, 70, 100, 200, 400, 1,000, and 2,000 ms. All of the tail currents were fitted to the sum of two exponential functions, with the constraint that the two time constants maintained their respective values for the entire series of depolarizations. The two time constants common to all the tail currents were 1.1 and 141.4 ms. Fig 7 A shows tail current traces at -90 mV and superimposed fits from Sh-IR-T449V-I470C for 10-, 200-, and 2,000-ms depolarizing pulses. The amplitude of the fast component ( = 1.1 ms) is little affected by the duration of the depolarizing pulse (Fig 7 B). On the contrary, the amplitude of the slow component (
= 141.4 ms) depends on the duration of the depolarization (Fig 7 C).
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Negative Shift in the Voltage Dependence of Deactivation Tail Currents after Long Depolarizing Prepulses in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C
Fig 8 (A and B) shows deactivation tail currents at different potentials for Sh-IR and Sh-IR-T449V-I470C (potentials are shown below the traces). For each potential, two tail current traces, elicited by 50- and 1,000-ms prepulses to 0 mV, are shown superimposed. In Sh-IR, the deactivation tail currents were kinetically indistinguishable for both prepulse durations. On the other hand, the double mutant, after 1,000-ms prepulse, had a slow deactivation component evident for repolarizing potentials more negative than 40 mV (Fig 8 B). To examine whether the slower deactivation time constants after long depolarizations could be explained by the population open state with a voltage dependence shifted toward more negative potentials in respect to a regular open state, we compared the time course of deactivation tails at different repolarizing potentials after 50- and 1,000-ms depolarizing pulses. A rough estimate of the shift could be obtained from the repolarizing potential values at which a pair of traces with 50- and 1,000-ms prepulses had a similar deactivation time course. For example, the deactivation time course at -40 mV after a 50-ms prepulse is similar to the deactivation time course at -50 mV after the 1,000-ms prepulse (Fig 8 C). In this case, a 10-mV shift in the voltage dependence may explain the different time course after 50- and 1,000-ms prepulses. However, the tail current kinetics at -50 mV after 50-ms depolarizing pulse, is similar to the tail current for repolarization to -70 mV after a 1-s depolarizing pulse; a larger shift, of near 20 mV was necessary to explain this difference in the time course (Fig 8D and Fig E). However, as shown by the records in Fig 8 F, a negative shift, >30 mV, would be necessary to match the kinetics of repolarizing pulses to -90 mV after 50 ms. In summary, a simple parallel shift of the voltage dependence of the new conducting state cannot explain the slower closing rate induced by long depolarizing pulses.
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During Long Depolarizations, the Change in the Voltage Dependence of the Charge Movement Closely Follows the Appearance of the Slow Component in the Tail Current of Sh-IR-T449V-I470C
We have shown (Fig 5) that the QV curves constructed from gating currents elicited from depolarized potentials (HP = 0 mV) are left shifted on the voltage axis as a result of a conformational change. The change in voltage dependence of the charge movement with long depolarizations can be monitored by changes in charge movement at a fixed potential (-60 mV) preceded by depolarizations of increasing durations. Fig 9 A shows gating current records from an oocyte expressing Sh-IR-T449V-I470C that has been depleted of internal K+ (see MATERIALS AND METHODS). From a holding potential of -90 mV, the membrane was depolarized to 0 mV for different time intervals and followed by a voltage step to -60 mV. Because of the change in the voltage dependence with depolarization, the amplitude of the gating currents measured at -60 mV decreases as the duration of the depolarizing pulse to 0 mV increases. The charge displaced during the voltage step from 0 to -60 mV is plotted in Fig 9 B as a function of the depolarization time to 0 mV. The time course of the charge reduction shown in (Fig 9 B) was fitted with a single exponential function with = 577 ms (Fig 9 B, dashed line). An analogous plot in (Fig 9 C) shows the dependence of the amplitude of the slow component of the tail current with the duration of the depolarizing pulse. The increase in amplitude of the slow component of the tail current (Fig 9 C) could be well fitted by a single exponential with
= 440 ms (Fig 9 B, dashed line). Since the two processes seemed to share similar time constants we also performed a simultaneous fit of the two processes. Both sets of data (Fig 9B and Fig C) could be well approximated by single exponential functions of identical time constants. The continuous lines in Fig 9 (B and C) are the result of the simultaneous fit, showing that the two processes can be satisfactorily approximated to one exponential with a time constant of 459 ms. This finding corroborates the idea that the change in voltage dependence of the charge movement is associated with the increase in the amplitude of the slow component of the tail currents and suggests that the same process underlies the changes both in charge movement and tail currents.
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In Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, a Kinetically Distinct New Open State, Populated during Long Depolarizations, Is Revealed Also during Repolarizations
In the preceding paragraphs, we have described that in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, a slow component becomes evident in macroscopic tail currents after long depolarizing pulse duration. We have confirmed this finding with single channel recordings showing that long depolarizations to 0 mV induce the appearance of a long lasting open state during repolarizations. This new long open state was not found in Sh-IR. Single channel traces in a cell-attached membrane patch from Sh-IR are shown in Fig 10. The current traces in (Fig 10 A) are recorded at -90 mV after a brief depolarization (50 ms) to 0 mV. The single channel openings were all clustered at the beginning of the repolarization and lasted for a few milliseconds before the closing of the channels. Prolonging the duration of the depolarizing pulse up to 1s (0 mV; Fig 10 B) did not change the pattern of the channel activity during the repolarization, and the channel activity ceased quickly when the potential returned to -90 mV.
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A very different pattern of single channel activity was observed in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C after short and long depolarizations. Fig 11 shows an experiment performed in identical conditions as in Fig 10, but from a membrane patch of Sh-IR-T449V-I470C. After a short (50 ms) depolarization to 0 mV, the single channel activity at -90 mV was mainly clustered at the beginning of the repolarizing pulse and was characterized by brief openings (Fig 11 A). In a few occasions, we could see brief and long openings throughout the trace. On the other hand, at the same potential but after a longer depolarization (1 s) to 0 mV, the single channel activity was characterized by longer openings and reopenings at -90 mV (B) before the closing of the channels. These long openings are the basis for the slow component of the tail current that appears after long depolarization, as described in Fig 6 and Fig 7. In the context of a Markov kinetic model, a possible explanation for this result is that the mutant channel has at least a new open state that becomes progressively populated during depolarization. These findings were confirmed and quantified by the mean-variance analysis of the macroscopic currents recorded in cell attached patches.
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Conditional Open Probability Analysis Reveals at least Two Open States in Shaker-IR T449V-I470C after Long Depolarizations
To calculate the number of channels in the patch and the unitary current through nonstationary mean-variance analysis (
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We next computed the COP ( = 0.8 ms and
= 5.5 ms, respectively. After a long depolarization (Fig 13 D, in milliseconds) the decay of the COP clearly became biexponential with
1 = 2.4 ms and
2 = 105 ms for the 0.5- ms reference time; the slow component (
2) was 32% of the total. Moving the reference time to 8 ms gave a COP that decayed biexponentially with
1 = 11.5 ms and
2 = 167; in this case, the amplitude of the slow component
2 increased to 59% of the total. As shown by the plot in Fig 13 F, even after short depolarization, the time constant of the decay of COP in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C increases with increasing reference time, in contrast with the negligible changes observed for Sh-IR (Fig 13 E).
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During long depolarizations, Sh-IR channels, which possess a single open state in the activation sequence (
Although the presented experimental evidences show clearly the presence of at least a new open state, we applied nonstationary autocovariance analysis to better characterize Sh-IR-T449V-I470C and compared with Sh-IR. The unitary currents calculated from the variance-mean plot (Fig 12) were similar to what was seen in the single channel experiments. The open probability (PO) of Sh-IR averaged almost 90%. On the other hand, the maximum open probability of the T449V-I470C mutant was reduced up to 50%. One might expect the mutant PO value to be slightly larger than that of Sh-IR if it contained more open states, even though there would be little entry into these states in the short duration (40 ms) of the depolarizing pulse. One possible explanation for the reduced open probability is that the T449V-I470C mutation enhances the presence of a blocking state connected to the regular open state (
The presence of multiple open states introduced by the T449V-I470C mutation is well revealed by the COP analysis even for short depolarizations. For a 40-ms depolarizing pulse to 30 mV, the decay was monoexponential. Reference times ranged from the start of the tail to the point at which the ionic current decayed to 1% of its peak value. The average rate of change of the decay time constant was
0.08 ms per ms of reference time for Sh-IR versus 0.72 ms per ms of reference time for the T449V-I470C mutant (Fig 12E and Fig F). After a 40-ms depolarizing pulse, the approximately ninefold increase in the rate of change of COP decay in the mutant as compared with Sh-IR is suggestive of a second open state that begins to populate early, and retains probability density after the regular open state has decayed to insignificant levels.
For longer (300 ms) depolarizations, the slow inactivation of the mean ionic current has clearly developed, yet the COP decay of Sh-IR is not significantly changed as compared with the 40-ms pulse. On the other hand, there is a dramatic change in the decay rate of the Sh-IR-T449V-I470C mutant, which has developed a second, much slower component after the fast early one. The inverse relationship of COP decay rate with pulse duration and reference time is strongly suggestive of the presence of one or more open states that acquires and release probability density on a slow time scale. The results presented support the interpretation that T449V-I470C mutations convert a normally nonconductive inactivated state of Sh-IR, into a conducting state.
A Qualitative Model for Sh-IR-T449V-I470C
To test the hypothesis that in Sh-IR-T449V-I470C an inactivated state becomes conducting, we compared our results with the prediction of a published model describing slow inactivation in Sh-IR ( = -2.42 kT for each positive charge carrying transition (
= -4.605 kT to the inactivated state Io to slow the tail currents emanating from the inactivated pathway. The positive tilt in the energy landscape of the inactivated pathway could, in principle, account for the slowing of the ionic tails without the need for a separate binding energy; but, we found that a linear tilt (with respect to charge displacement) could not produce the nonuniform shift in the tail time constants seen experimentally. Thus, for this descriptive model, we found it simpler to utilize the binding energy ln
to slow down the tails from the Io state. The qualitative features of the kinetics obtained with the Sh-IR-T449V-I470C mutant can be reproduced simply by making conductive the inactivated state (Io) connected to the open state (O). We will refer to this model as "IC" (inactivated conducting) and we will compare it to the published Sh-IR model (
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We produced simulated ionic current traces according to the method of
Long depolarizations allow the inactivated state to develop more completely, making the slow component of both the ionic current tail (Fig 14 B, inset) and the COP (Fig 14 B) of the open inactivated state model more prominent on a long time scale. The INC model (with conventional slow inactivation) has of course fast tail currents and no change in COP decay for any time scale. The results from these simulations, together with the experimental results, suggest that T449V-I470C mutations convert at least one normally nonconductive inactivated state of Sh-IR into a conducting state.
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1 Abbreviations used in this paper: COP, conditional open probability; IC, inactivated conducting; INC, inactivated nonconducting.
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We thank Dr. Gary Yellen for the gift of Sh-IR-T449V-I470C clone, Dr. Claudia Basso for preliminary experiments with Sh-IR-T449V-I470C, and Dr. Trude Haug for helpful comments to the manuscript.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant GM52203 to E. Stefani, by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences grant GM30376 to F. Bezanilla, and by Chilean grants FONDECYT 1000-0890, Cátedra Presidencial, and a Human Frontier in Science Program grant to R. Latorre. The Centro de Estudios is a Millenium Institute.
Submitted: 7 August 2000
Revised: 4 December 2000
Accepted: 2 January 2001
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