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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 269: C590-C600, 1995;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 3 C590-C600, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Changes in lens connexin expression lead to increased gap junctional voltage dependence and conductance

P. J. Donaldson, Y. Dong, M. Roos, C. Green, D. A. Goodenough and J. Kistler
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

The differentiation of mouse lens epithelial cells into fiber cells is a useful model for studying the changes of the electrical properties of gap junction (cell-to-cell) channels that are induced by an alteration in connexin expression patterns. In this model, cuboidal lens epithelial cells differentiate into elongated fiber cells, and the expression of connexin43 (Cx43) in the epithelial cells is replaced with the production of high levels of Cx50 and Cx46 in the fiber cells. We now report a new procedure to isolate mouse lens fiber cell pairs suitable for double whole cell patch-clamp analysis. Analysis was also performed for fiberlike cell pairs differentiated from epithelial cells in culture. Voltage dependence and unitary conductance of fiber cell gap junction channels were determined and compared with the corresponding values previously measured for the channels joining lens epithelial cells and for lens connexin channels formed in Xenopus oocyte pairs. Our results support a differentiation-induced shift toward stronger gap junctional voltage dependence and larger unitary conductances in the fiber cells. Our data further reflect a balanced functional contribution of Cx50 and Cx46 in the fiber cell-to-cell channels rather than a predominance of a single connexin.


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