PMID: 8593270Jan 31, 1996Paper

Cardiac Na+ pump current-voltage relationships at various transmembrane gradients of the pumped cations

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
H G GlitschL Young

Abstract

Thermodynamic considerations predict changes of the Na+ pump current (Ip)-voltage (V) relationship of animal cells upon variations of the electrochemical gradients against which cations must be pumped. Experimental data in support of the predictions are sparse. Therefore, the effect on the Ip-V relationship of various electrochemical gradients for pumped Na+ and Cs+ was studied at constant deltaGATP (approximately -39kJ/mol in cardioballs from sheep Purkinje fibres. Control of the subsarcolemmal ionic concentrations during whole-cell recording was ensured by activation of Ip below its half maximal activity or by measuring the initial Ip following reactivation of the Na+/K+ pump. With gradients close to physiological conditions Ip was outward over the entire voltage range and the Ip-V relationship showed a maximum near zero potential. Steepening the ionic gradients diminished the Ip amplitude and outward pump current was no longer detectable between -65 mV and -110 mV. Flattened ionic gradients increased the Ip amplitude and shifted apparently the reversal potential Erev to more negative values. These changes are in line with theoretical considerations. The measured Ip-V relationships were fitted by curves computed on the basis ...Continue Reading

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Oct 3, 2001·Physiological Reviews·H G Glitsch

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