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ARTICLE, Behavioral/Systems

Coregulation of Voltage-Dependent Kinetics of Na+ and K+ Currents in Electric Organ

M. Lynne McAnelly and Harold H. Zakon
Journal of Neuroscience 1 May 2000, 20 (9) 3408-3414; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-09-03408.2000
M. Lynne McAnelly
1Section of Neurobiology and Institute for Neuroscience, Patterson Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Harold H. Zakon
1Section of Neurobiology and Institute for Neuroscience, Patterson Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Abstract

The electric organ cells of Sternopygus generate action potentials whose durations vary over a fourfold range. This variation in action potential duration is the basis for individual variation in a communication signal. Thus, action potential duration must be precisely regulated in these cells. We had observed previously that the inactivation kinetics of the electrocyte Na+ current show systematic individual variation. In this study, using a two-electrode voltage clamp, we found that the voltage-dependent activation and deactivation kinetics of the delayed rectifying K+ current in these cells covary in a graded and predictable manner across fish. Furthermore, when Na+ and K+ currents were recorded in the same cell, their voltage-dependent kinetics were highly correlated. This finding illustrates an unprecedented degree of coregulation of voltage-dependent properties in two molecularly distinct ionic channels. Such a coregulation of ionic channels is uniquely observable in a cell specialized to generate individual differences in electrical activity and in which the results of biophysical control mechanisms are evident in behaving animals. We propose that the precise coregulation of the voltage-dependent kinetics of multiple ionic currents may be a general mechanism for regulation of membrane excitability.

  • Na+ current
  • K+current
  • electric organ
  • voltage-clamp
  • electric fish
  • Sternopygus
  • regulation
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M. Lynne McAnelly, Harold H. Zakon
Journal of Neuroscience 1 May 2000, 20 (9) 3408-3414; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-09-03408.2000

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Journal of Neuroscience 1 May 2000, 20 (9) 3408-3414; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-09-03408.2000
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