Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2002 Jan 01;2821:L135-45. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.2002.282.1.L135.

Voltage-sensitive gating induced by a mutation in the fifth transmembrane domain of CFTR.

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A mutation in the fifth transmembrane domain of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl(-) channel (V317E) resulted in whole cell currents that exhibited marked outward rectification on expression in Xenopus oocytes. However, the single-channel unitary current (i)-voltage (V) relationship failed to account for the rectification of whole cell currents. In excised patches containing one to a few channels, the time-averaged single-channel current (I)-V relationship (I = N x P(o) x i, where N is the number of active channels and P(o) is open probability) of V317E CFTR displayed outward rectification, whereas that of wild-type CFTR was linear, indicating that the P(o) of V317E CFTR is voltage dependent. The decrease in P(o) at negative potentials was due to both a decreased burst duration and a decreased opening rate that could not be ameliorated by a 10-fold increase in ATP concentration. This behavior appears to reflect a true voltage dependence of the gating process because the P(o)-V relationship did not depend on the direction of Cl(-) movement. The results are consistent with the introduction, by a point mutation, of a novel voltage-dependent gating mode that may provide a useful tool for probing the portions of the protein that move in response to ATP-dependent gating.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: cftr