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Department of Medical Physiology, University of Calgary School of Medicine, Alberta, Canada.
1. Intracellular mechanism(s) for controlling the opening of muscarinic K+ channels in the absence of an applied muscarinic agonist were studied in rabbit atrium by applying the patch clamp technique to isolated single myocytes. 2. In the cell-attached patch configuration, currents due to the activity of both the muscarinic K+ channel and the inward rectifying K+ channel were recorded. However, while the inward rectifying K+ channel currents were observed in only ten patches of 211 examined, spontaneous opening (i.e. in the absence of a muscarinic agonist) of the muscarinic K+ channel currents was observed in all patches examined in these atrial cells. 3. The single-channel currents due to spontaneous opening of muscarinic K+ channels were identified on the basis of their very similar conductance and gating properties to the unitary events which have been recorded when 0.5 microM-acetylcholine is included in the pipette and 10 microM-GTP is present in the internal side of the patch membrane. 4. Although the spontaneous opening of the muscarinic K+ channels disappeared soon after excision of the patch membrane, this type of channel activity reappeared following application of ATP and MgCl2 to the internal side of the torn-off patch, as expected from previous publications. 5. The K+ channel activity induced by the ATP and Mg2+ (measured as the product of the number of channels, N, times the probability of opening, Po) was strongly dependent upon concentration of free Mg2+; it was half-maximal at 2.2 x 10(-4) M [Mg2+]i. However, after the muscarinic K+ channels had been activated by 100 microM-guanosine 5'-O-3-thiotriphosphate (GTP gamma S) together with ATP and Mg2+, an increase in the Mg2+ concentration from 5.5 x 10(-5) to 2 x 10(-3) M failed to enhance this channel activity. 6. Pertussis toxin, which is known to uncouple muscarinic receptors from associated G-proteins (G(i) or G(o)), failed to inhibit the ATP- and Mg(2+)-induced activation of this K+ channel in the absence agonists. 7. In experiments made to test whether the Mg(2+)-ATP requirement results from an obligatory phosphorylation reaction, ATP was replaced with adenylyl-imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP), an analogue of ATP which is resistant to hydrolysis. This K+ channel activity was not present when ATP was replaced with AMP-PNP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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