Batrachotoxin-activated Na+ channels in planar lipid bilayers: Competition of tetrodotoxin block by Na+

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Single Na+ channels from rat skeletal muscle plasma membrane vesicles were inserted into planar lipid bilayers formed from neutral phospholipids and were observed in the presence of batrachotoxin. The batrachotoxinmodified channel activates in the voltage range -120 to -80 mV and remains open almost all the time at voltages positive to -60 mV. Low levels of tetrodotoxin (TTX) induce slow fluctuations of channel current, which represent the binding and dissociation of single TTX molecules to single channels. The rates of association and dissociation of TTX are both voltage dependent, and the association rate is competitively inhibited by Na+. This inhibition is observed only when Na+ is increased on the TTX binding side of the channel. The results suggest that the TTX receptor site is located at the channel’s outer mouth, and that the Na+ competition site is not located deeply within the channel’s conduction pathway. © 1984, Rockefeller University Press., All rights reserved.

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Moczydlowski, E., Garber, S. S., & Miller, C. (1984). Batrachotoxin-activated Na+ channels in planar lipid bilayers: Competition of tetrodotoxin block by Na+. Journal of General Physiology, 84(5), 665–686. https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.84.5.665

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