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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1295/1997//449/ $5.00
Journal of General Physiology, Volume 109, Number 4, 1997


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Ion-dependent Inactivation of Barium Current through L-type Calcium Channels

Gonzalo Ferreira, Jianxun Yi, Eduardo Ríos, and Roman Shirokov

From the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois 60612

It is widely believed that Ba2+ currents carried through L-type Ca2+ channels inactivate by a voltage- dependent mechanism similar to that described for other voltage-dependent channels. Studying ionic and gating currents of rabbit cardiac Ca2+ channels expressed in different subunit combinations in tsA201 cells, we found a phase of Ba2+ current decay with characteristics of ion-dependent inactivation. Upon a long duration (20 s) depolarizing pulse, IBa decayed as the sum of two exponentials. The slow phase ({tau} {approx} 6 s, 21°C) was parallel to a reduction of gating charge mobile at positive voltages, which was determined in the same cells. The fast phase of current decay ({tau} {approx} 600 ms), involving about 50% of total decay, was not accompanied by decrease of gating currents. Its amplitude depended on voltage with a characteristic U-shape, reflecting reduction of inactivation at positive voltages. When Na+ was used as the charge carrier, decay of ionic current followed a single exponential, of rate similar to that of the slow decay of Ba2+ current. The reduction of Ba2+ current during a depolarizing pulse was not due to changes in the concentration gradients driving ion movement, because Ba2+ entry during the pulse did not change the reversal potential for Ba2+. A simple model of Ca2+-dependent inactivation (Shirokov, R., R. Levis, N. Shirokova, and E. Ríos. 1993. J. Gen. Physiol. 102:1005–1030) robustly accounts for fast Ba2+ current decay assuming the affinity of the inactivation site on the {alpha}1 subunit to be 100 times lower for Ba2+ than Ca2+.

Key Words: gating current • signal transduction • cardiac muscle • heterologous expression


Address correspondence to Roman Shirokov, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University School of Medicine, 1750 W. Harrison St., Suite 1279JS, Chicago, IL 60612. Fax: 312-942-8711; E-mail: rshiroko{at}rush.edu


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