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J Neurophysiol 69: 860-867, 1993;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 69, Issue 3 860-867, Copyright © 1993 by APS

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Effect of cytoplasmic chloride concentration on open-state preference of glycine-activated chloride channels in cultured spinal cord cells

A. I. McNiven and A. R. Martin
Department of Physiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver 80262.

1. Glycine was bath-applied to outside-out patches taken from cultured mouse spinal cord neurons. Glycine-activated chloride channels had at least six open states with permeabilities of 40 (A), 68 (B), 100 (C), 145 (D), 180 (E), and 250 (F) al/s (1 attoliter = 10(-18) liter). Usually no more than two such states were seen in any given patch. The usual extracellular chloride concentration was 157 mM; chloride concentration in the electrode (on the cytoplasmic face of the patch) was varied between 7 and 170 mM, replaced at lower concentrations with either of the inert anions gluconate or methane sulphonate. 2. With normal (7 mM) chloride concentration in the electrode, openings to state D were the most probable, and the average permeability of all openings was 115 al/s. When the cytoplasmic chloride concentration was 20 mM, the most probable open state was the lower-permeability state (C), and the average permeability was 92 al/s. In symmetrical 170 mM chloride, the most probable open state was B and the mean permeability 77 al/s. 3. The glycine-activated channels had a vanishingly small permeability to fluoride. However, in experiments in which 150 mM gluconate in the pipette was replaced by fluoride, the most probable open state was B, as in the high-chloride solution. Thus the two halides had similar effects on open state preference. 4. With external and internal chloride concentrations of 7 and 157 mM, respectively, single-channel current-voltage relations could be fit with constant field relations appropriate to one or more of the permeability states.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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