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J. Gen. Physiol., Volume 112, Number 4, October 1, 1998 423-432

Subunit Composition Determines the Single Channel Kinetics of the Epithelial Sodium Channel

Gregor K. Fyfe, and Cecilia M. Canessa

From the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

We have further characterized at the single channel level the properties of epithelial sodium channels formed by coexpression of alpha  with either wild-type beta  or gamma  subunits and alpha  with carboxy-terminal truncated beta  (beta T) or gamma  (gamma T) subunits in Xenopus laevis oocytes. alpha beta and alpha beta T channels (9.6 and 8.7 pS, respectively, with 150 mM Li+) were found to be constitutively open. Only upon inclusion of 1 µM amiloride in the pipette solution could channel activity be resolved; both channel types had short open and closed times. Mean channel open probability (Po) for alpha beta was 0.54 and for alpha beta T was 0.50. In comparison, alpha gamma and alpha gamma T channels exhibited different kinetics: alpha gamma channels (6.7 pS in Li+) had either long open times with short closings, resulting in a high Po (0.78), or short openings with long closed times, resulting in a low Po (0.16). The mean Po for all alpha gamma channels was 0.48. alpha gamma T (6.6 pS in Li+) behaved as a single population of channels with distinct kinetics: mean open time of 1.2 s and closed time of 0.4 s, with a mean Po of 0.6, similar to that of alpha gamma . Inclusion of 0.1 µM amiloride in the pipette solution reduced the mean open time of alpha gamma T to 151 ms without significantly altering the closed time. We also examined the kinetics of amiloride block of alpha beta , alpha beta T (1 µM amiloride), and alpha gamma T (0.1 µM amiloride) channels. alpha beta and alpha beta T had similar blocking and unblocking rate constants, whereas the unblocking rate constant for alpha gamma T was 10-fold slower than alpha beta T. Our results indicate that subunit composition of ENaC is a main determinant of Po. In addition, channel kinetics and Po are not altered by carboxy-terminal deletion in the beta  subunit, whereas a similar deletion in the gamma  subunit affects channel kinetics but not Po.

Key words: epithelial sodium channelopen probabilityamiloride blockXenopus oocyte


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