The dynamic relationships between the three events that release individual Na+ ions from the Na+/K+-ATPase

David C. Gadsby (), Francisco Bezanilla, Robert F. Rakowski, Paul De Weer and Miguel Holmgren ()
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David C. Gadsby: Marine Biological Laboratory
Francisco Bezanilla: Marine Biological Laboratory
Robert F. Rakowski: Marine Biological Laboratory
Paul De Weer: Marine Biological Laboratory
Miguel Holmgren: Marine Biological Laboratory

Nature Communications, 2012, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Na+/K+ pumps move net charge through the cell membrane by mediating unequal exchange of intracellular Na+ and extracellular K+. Most charge moves during transitions that release Na+ to the cell exterior. When pumps are constrained to bind and release only Na+, a membrane voltage-step redistributes pumps among conformations with zero, one, two or three bound Na+, thereby transiently generating current. By applying rapid voltage steps to squid giant axons, we previously identified three components in such transient currents, with distinct relaxation speeds: fast (which nearly parallels the voltage-jump time course), medium speed (τm=0.2–0.5 ms) and slow (τs=1–10 ms). Here we show that these three components are tightly correlated, both in their magnitudes and in the time courses of their changes. The correlations reveal the dynamics of the conformational rearrangements that release three Na+ to the exterior (or sequester them into their binding sites) one at a time, in an obligatorily sequential manner.

Date: 2012
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