The 147-pS Ca2+-activated K+ channel in guinea pig taenia coli myocytes functions similarly to the delayed rectifier channel and likely underlies the repolarizing current of the action potential.
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Characterizes K+ channel biophysics in animal smooth muscle; leaves open translation to human cardiovascular repolarization.
The permeation properties of the 147-pS Ca2+-activated K+ channel of the taenia coli myocytes are similar to those of the delayed rectifier channel in other excitable membranes. It has a selectivity sequence of K+ 1.0 greater than Rb+ 0.65 greater than NH4+ 0.50. Na+, Cs+, Li+, and TEA+ (tetraethylammonium) are impermeant. Internal Na+ blocks K+ channel in a strongly voltage-dependent manner with an equivalent valence (zd) of 1.20. Blockade by internal Cs+ and TEA+ is less voltage dependent, with d of 0.61 and 0.13, and half-blockage concentrations of 88 and 31 mM, respectively. External TEA+ is about 100 times more effective in blocking the K+ channel. All these findings suggest that the 147-pS Ca2+-activated K+ channel in the taenia myocytes, which functions physiologically like the delayed rectifier, is the single-channel basis of the repolarizing current in an action potential.
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