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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan.
1. The effects of intracellular pH (pHi) on calcium-activated potassium channels (Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels) were studied in membrane patches of smooth muscle freshly dispersed from the rabbit trachea. Single-channel currents were recorded with an 'inside-out' patch clamp technique, mainly at 0 mV, with the external (electrode) medium containing 130 mM-K+ and the internal (bath) medium 6 mM-K+. 2. With an internal Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) of 1 microM, the fraction of time during which the channel was in an open state (the open probability, Po) was more than 0.8 at pHi 7.4. The channel activity nearly disappeared at pHi 7.0. The [Ca2+]i-Po relationship was shifted to higher [Ca2+]i by acidosis, the shift being approximately an 8-fold increase for a fall in pHi of 0.5 units. 3. The membrane potential and current intensity (V-I) relationship of single channels between +30 and -50 mV was shifted in a hyperpolarizing direction by intracellular acidosis. The shift was roughly 10 mV for 1 pH unit at 1 microM [Ca2+]i. At pHi 7.4 [Ca2+]i 1 microM, the V-Po relationship was shifted in a depolarizing direction by acidification. When [Ca2+]i was increased to 10 microM, V-Po relationship became less sensitive to V as well as pHi changes. 4. When Po was high, the probability density function of open and closed time distributions could be fitted by two exponentials. When Po was decreased to less than 0.3, either by reducing [Ca2+]i or by lowering pHi, another component having long closed times appeared. At similar Po values, the time constant of open time distribution was smaller with lower pHi. 5. It is concluded that the main effect of an increase in intracellular hydrogen ions is to decrease the open probability of the Ca2(+)-activated K+ channel, by reducing the sensitivity to Ca2+ and also shortening the open state.
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