Publication Date:
1992-09-18
Description:
Most calcium-activated potassium channels couple changes in intracellular calcium to membrane excitability by conducting a current with a probability that depends directly on submembrane calcium concentration. In rat adrenal chromaffin cells, however, a large conductance, voltage- and calcium-activated potassium channel (BK) undergoes rapid inactivation, suggesting that this channel has a physiological role different than that of other BK channels. The inactivation of the BK channel, like that of the voltage-gated Shaker B potassium channel, is removed by trypsin digestion and channels are blocked by the Shaker B amino-terminal inactivating domain. Thus, this BK channel shares functional and possibly structural homologies with other inactivating voltage-gated potassium channels.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Solaro, C R -- Lingle, C J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Sep 18;257(5077):1694-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1529355" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adrenal Glands/physiology
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Animals
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Calcium/*pharmacology
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Cattle
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Cell Line
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Cell Membrane/physiology
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Chromaffin System/physiology
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Electric Conductivity
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Ion Channel Gating/drug effects/physiology
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Male
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Membrane Potentials/physiology
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Potassium Channels/*physiology
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Rats
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Rats, Inbred Strains
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Trypsin/*pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
