Sigworth F J
Biophys J. 1985 May;47(5):709-20. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(85)83968-0.
The random passage of ions through an open channel is expected to result in shot noise fluctuations in the channel current. The patch-clamp technique now allows fluctuations of this size to be observed in single-channel currents. In the experiments reported here the acetylcholine-induced currents in cultured rat muscle cells were analyzed; fluctuations were found that were considerably larger than expected for shot noise. A low-frequency component, which was fitted with a Lorentzian, was examined in detail; it appears to arise from fluctuations in channel conductance of approximately 3% on a time scale of 1 ms. The characteristic relaxation time is voltage dependent and temperature dependent (Q10 approximately equal to 3) suggesting that the fluctuations arise from conformational fluctuations in the channel protein.
离子随机通过开放通道预计会导致通道电流出现散粒噪声波动。膜片钳技术现在能够观察到单通道电流中这种大小的波动。在本文报道的实验中,对培养的大鼠肌肉细胞中乙酰胆碱诱导的电流进行了分析;发现波动比散粒噪声预期的要大得多。详细研究了一个用洛伦兹函数拟合的低频成分;它似乎源于通道电导在1毫秒时间尺度上约3%的波动。特征弛豫时间与电压和温度有关(Q10约等于3),这表明波动源于通道蛋白的构象波动。