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- Klement, G., et al.
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A tyrosine substitution in the cavity wall of a K channel induces an inverted inactivation
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In: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 94:8, s. 3014-3022
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Ion permeation and gating kinetics of voltage-gated K channels critically depend on the amino-acid composition of the cavity wall. Residue 470 in the Shaker K channel is an isoleucine, making the cavity volume in a closed channel insufficiently large for a hydrated K+ ion. In the cardiac human ether-a-go-go-related gene channel, which exhibits slow activation and fast inactivation, the corresponding residue is tyrosine. To explore the role of a tyrosine at this position in the Shaker channel, we studied I470Y. The activation became slower, and the inactivation faster and more complex. At +60 mV the channel inactivated with two distinct rates (t1 = 20 ms, t2 = 400 ms). Experiments with tetraethylammonium and high K + concentrations suggest that the slower component was of the P/C-type. In addition, an inactivation component with inverted voltage dependence was introduced. A step to -40 mV inactivates the channel with a time constant of 500 ms. Negative voltage steps do not cause the channel to recover from this inactivated state (t » 10 min), whereas positive voltage steps quickly do (t = 2 ms at +60 mV). The experimental findings can be explained by a simple branched kinetic model with two inactivation pathways from the open state. © 2008 by the Biophysical Society.
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- Århem, P., et al.
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Channel density regulation of firing patterns in a cortical neuron model
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In: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 90:12, s. 4392-4404
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Modifying the density and distribution of ion channels in a neuron (by natural up- and downregulation or by pharmacological intervention or by spontaneous mutations) changes its activity pattern. In this investigation we analyzed how the impulse patterns are regulated by the density of voltage-gated channels in a neuron model based on voltage-clamp measurements of hippocampal interneurons. At least three distinct oscillatory patterns, associated with three distinct regions in the Na-K channel density plane, were found. A stability analysis showed that the different regions are characterized by saddle-node, double-orbit, and Hopf-bifurcation threshold dynamics, respectively. Single, strongly graded action potentials occur in an area outside the oscillatory regions, but less graded action potentials occur together with repetitive. ring over a considerable range of channel densities. The relationship found here between channel densities and oscillatory behavior may partly explain the difference between the principal spiking patterns previously described for crab axons (class 1 and 2) and cortical neurons ( regular. ring and fast spiking).
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