Electro-pharmacological profile of a mitochondrial inner membrane big-potassium channel from rat brain
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- 作者：J. Fahanik-babaei ; A. Eliassi ; A. Jafari ; R. Sauve ; S. Salari ; R. Saghiri
- 关键词：Mitochondria ; Potassium channels ; MitoBK channel ; Charybdotoxin ; Iberiotoxin
- 刊名：Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/Biomembranes
- 出版年：2011
- 出版时间：January 2011
- 年：2011
- 卷：1808
- 期：1
- 页码：454-460
- 全文大小：820 K
文摘
Recent studies have indicated a calcium-activated large conductance potassium channel in rat brain mitochondrial inner membrane (mitoBK channel). Accordingly, we have characterized the functional and pharmacological profile of a BK channel from rat brain mitochondria in the present study. Brain mitochondrial inner membrane preparations were subjected to SDS-PAGE analysis and channel protein reconstitution into planar lipid bilayers. Western blotting and antibodies directed against various cellular proteins revealed that mitochondrial inner membrane fractions did not contain specific proteins of the other subcellular compartments except a very small fraction of endoplasmic reticulum. Channel incorporation into planar lipid bilayers revealed a voltage dependent 211 pS potassium channel with a voltage for half activation (V1/2) of 11.4 ± 1.1 mV and an effective gating charge zd of 4.7 ± 0.9. Gating and conducting behaviors of this channel were unaffected by the addition of 2.5 mM ATP, and 500 nM charybdotoxin (ChTx), but the channel appeared sensitive to 100 nM iberiotoxin (IbTx). Adding 10 mM TEA at positive potentials and 10 mM 4-AP at negative or positive voltages inhibited the channel activities. These results demonstrate that the mitoBK channel, present in brain mitochondrial inner membrane, displays different pharmacological properties than those classically described for plasma membrane, especially in regard to its sensitivity to iberiotoxin and charybdotoxin sensitivity.