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Patch-clamp studies have been employed in order to check whether the assumption of a multi-ion single-file pore is necessary for the explanation of the anomalous mole fraction effect or whether this effect can also be explained by a single-barrier enzyme kinetic model. Experiments in the cell-attached configuration were done on the tonoplast membrane of cytoplasmic droplets ofNitella in solutions containing 150 mol m−3 of K+ plus Tl+ with seven different K+/Tl+ ratios. At first sight, the results seem to support the multi-ion single-file pore, because apparent open channel conductivity displays the anomalous mole fraction effect, whereas open-probability has not been found to be dependent on the K+/Tl+ ratio. Changes in open probability would be expected for a single-barrier enzyme kinetic model with a lazy state. On the other hand, the lazy-state model is more successful in explaining the measuredI-V curves. The entire slope of the apparent open channel current-voltage curves rotates with changing K+/Tl+ ratios in the whole voltage range between −100 and + 80 mV. Numerical calculations on the basis of multi-ion single-file pores could create the anomalous mole fraction effect only in a limited voltage range with intersectingI-V curves. The apparent absence of an effect on open probability which is postulated by the lazy-state model can be explained if switching into and out of the lazy state is faster than can be resolved by the temporal resolution of 1 msec.
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Draber, S., Schultze, R. & Hansen, UP. Patch-clamp studies on the anomalous mole fraction effect of the K+ channel in cytoplasmic droplets ofNitella: An attempt to distinguish between a multi-ion single-file pore and an enzyme kinetic model with lazy state. J. Membrain Biol. 123, 183–190 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01998088
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