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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1295/1999//457/ $5.00
Journal of General Physiology, Volume 113, Number 3, 1999


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The Muscle Chloride Channel ClC-1 Has a Double-Barreled Appearance that Is Differentially Affected in Dominant and Recessive Myotonia

Chiara Saviane, Franco Conti, and Michael Pusch

From the Istituto di Cibernetica e Biofisica, CNR, I-16149 Genova, Italy

Single-channel recordings of the currents mediated by the muscle Cl channel, ClC-1, expressed in Xenopus oocytes, provide the first direct evidence that this channel has two equidistant open conductance levels like the Torpedo ClC-0 prototype. As for the case of ClC-0, the probabilities and dwell times of the closed and conducting states are consistent with the presence of two independently gated pathways with {approx} 1.2 pS conductance enabled in parallel via a common gate. However, the voltage dependence of the common gate is different and the kinetics are much faster than for ClC-0. Estimates of single-channel parameters from the analysis of macroscopic current fluctuations agree with those from single-channel recordings. Fluctuation analysis was used to characterize changes in the apparent double-gate behavior of the ClC-1 mutations I290M and I556N causing, respectively, a dominant and a recessive form of myotonia. We find that both mutations reduce about equally the open probability of single protopores and that mutation I290M yields a stronger reduction of the common gate open probability than mutation I556N. Our results suggest that the mammalian ClC-homologues have the same structure and mechanism proposed for the Torpedo channel ClC-0. Differential effects on the two gates that appear to modulate the activation of ClC-1 channels may be important determinants for the different patterns of inheritance of dominant and recessive ClC-1 mutations.

Key Words: ClC-0 • fast gate • slow gate • subconductance


Address correspondence to Michael Pusch, Istituto di Cibernetica e Biofisica, CNR, Via de Marini 6, I-16149 Genova, Italy. Fax: 39 010 6475 500; E-mail: pusch{at}barolo.icb.ge.cnr.it

Abbreviations: WT, wild type


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