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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 269: C1356-C1363, 1995;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 6 C1356-C1363, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Unitary conductance of Na+ channel isoforms in cardiac and NB2a neuroblastoma cells

C. M. Baumgarten, S. C. Dudley Jr, R. B. Rogart and H. A. Fozzard
Department of Physiology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298, USA.

Unitary conductances of native Na+ channel isoforms (gamma Na) have been determined under a variety of conditions, making comparisons of gamma Na difficult. To allow direct comparison, we measured gamma Na in cell-attached patches on NB2a neuroblastoma cells and rabbit ventricular myocytes under identical conditions [pipette solution (in mM): 280 Na+ and 2 Ca2+, pH 7.4; 10 degrees C]. gamma Na of NB2a channels, 22.9 +/- 0.9 pS, was 21% greater than that of cardiac channels, 18.9 +/- 0.9 pS. In contrast, respective extrapolated reversal potentials, +62.4 +/- 4.6 and +57.9 +/- 5.1 mV, were not significantly different. Several kinetic differences between the channel types were also noted. Negative to -20 mV, mean open time (MOT) of the NB2a isoform was significantly less than that of cardiac channels, and, near threshold, latency to channel opening decayed more rapidly in NB2a. On the basis of analysis of MOT between -60 and 0 mV, the rate constants at 0 mV for the open-to-closed (O-->C) and open-to-inactivated (O-->I) transitions were 0.42 +/- 0.11 and 0.47 +/- 0.11 ms-1 in NB2a and 0.10 +/- 0.06 and 1.19 +/- 0.07 ms-1 in myocytes. The slope factors were -38.9 +/- 8.7 and +10.7 +/- 6.1 mV in NB2a and -27.3 +/- 7.1 and +23.7 +/- 4.9 mV in myocytes. Transition rate constants were significantly different in NB2a and cardiac cells, but voltage dependence was not.


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