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A Ca and potential-dependent K channel of large unit conductance was detected in the apical membrane of JTC-12.P3 cells, a continuous epithelial cell line of renal origin. The open probability of the channel is dependent on membrane potential and cytoplasmic-free Ca concentration. At cell-free configuration of the membrane patch, the open probability shows a bell-shaped behavior as function of membrane potential, which decreases at larger depolarization. With increasing Ca concentration, the width of the bell-shaped curve increases and the maximum shifts into the hyperpolarizing direction. For the first time the kinetics of this channel was analyzed under cell-attached conditions. In this case the kinetics could sufficiently be described by a simple open-closed behavior. The channel has an extremely small open probability at resting potential, which increases exponentially with depolarization. The low probability induces an uncertainty about the actual number of channels in the membrane patch. The number of channels is estimated by kinetic analysis. It is discussed that this K channel is essential for the repolarization of the membrane potential during electrogenic sodium-solute cotransport across the apical membrane.
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Kolb, H.A., Brown, C.D.A. & Murer, H. Characterization of a Ca-dependent maxi K channel in the apical membrane of a cultured renal epithelium (JTC-12.P3). J. Membrain Biol. 92, 207–215 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01869389
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