Gap-junctional single-channel permeability for fluorescent tracers in mammalian cell cultures.

Biophysical Journal
Reiner Eckert

Abstract

We have developed a simple dye transfer method that allows quantification of the gap-junction permeability of small cultured cells. Fluorescent dyes (calcein and Lucifer yellow) were perfused into one cell of an isolated cell pair using a patch-type micropipette in the tight-seal whole cell configuration. Dye spreading into the neighboring cells was monitored using a low-light charge-coupled device camera. Permeation rates for calcein and Lucifer yellow were then estimated by fitting the time course of the fluorescence intensities in both cells. For curve fitting, we used a set of model equations derived from a compartment model of dye distribution. The permeation rates were correlated to the total ionic conductance of the gap junction measured immediately after the perfusion experiment. Assuming that dye permeation is through a unit-conductance channel, we were then able to calculate the single-channel permeance for each tracer dye. We have applied this technique to HeLa cells stably transfected with rat-Cx46 and Cx43, and to BICR/M1R(k) cells, a rat mammary tumor cell line that has very high dye coupling through endogenous Cx43 channels. Scatter plots of permeation rates versus junctional conductance did not show a strictly l...Continue Reading

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