Modeling of single noninactivating Na+ channels: evidence for two open and several fast inactivated states

Biophysical Journal
Yu-Kai TheHolger Lerche

Abstract

Voltage-gated Na(+) channels play a fundamental role in the excitability of nerve and muscle cells. Defects in fast Na(+) channel inactivation can cause hereditary muscle diseases with hyper- or hypoexcitability of the sarcolemma. To explore the kinetics and gating mechanisms of noninactivating muscle Na(+) channels on a molecular level, we analyzed single channel currents from wild-type and five mutant Na(+) channels. The mutations were localized in different protein regions which have been previously shown to be important for fast inactivation (D3-D4-linker, D3/S4-S5, D4/S4-S5, D4/S6) and exhibited distinct grades of defective fast inactivation with varying levels of persistent Na(+) currents caused by late channel reopenings. Different gating schemes were fitted to the data using hidden Markov models with a correction for time interval omission and compared statistically. For all investigated channels including the wild-type, two open states were necessary to describe our data. Whereas one inactivated state was sufficient to fit the single channel behavior of wild-type channels, modeling the mutants with impaired fast inactivation revealed evidence for several inactivated states. We propose a single gating scheme with two op...Continue Reading

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