Batrachotoxin modifies the gating kinetics of sodium channels in internally perfused neuroblastoma cells.
0301 basic medicine
Kinetics
Mice
Neuroblastoma
0303 health sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Sodium
Animals
Batrachotoxins
Hybrid Cells
Cells, Cultured
Ion Channels
Rats
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.79.6.2082
Publication Date:
2006-05-31T09:03:20Z
AUTHORS (3)
ABSTRACT
We have studied the effects of batrachotoxin (BTX) on sodium channels in hybrid mouse neuroblastoma cells NG108-15 by using the suction pipet voltage clamp method. BTX-modified sodium channels activate with first-order kinetics and, over most of the potential range, activate more slowly than normal sodium channels. The peak conductance-voltage curve and the time constant of activation-versus-voltage curve for BTX-modified sodium channels are shifted about 50 mV in the hyperpolarizing direction compared to the corresponding curves for normal sodium channels. There is no change in the slope of the conductance-voltage curve. These results suggest that BTX slows down one of the steps leading to channel opening, which consequently becomes rate-limiting. In addition, BTX eliminates both fast and slow inactivation.
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