Mueller P, Pugh E N
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Apr;80(7):1892-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.7.1892.
Membrane currents of isolated frog rods were recorded with the suction pipette technique and tested by perfusion techniques for their sensitivity to H+. The following facts have been established. (i) Increased [H+] suppresses the Na+ conductance of the outer segment rapidly and reversibly. (ii) H+ acts in the rod interior. (iii) The [H+] necessary to cause a 50% decrement in Na+ conductance is inversely related to the [Ca2+] over 5 orders of magnitude. (iv) The sensitivity to H+ and the sensitivity to light, as a function of [Ca2+], have the same slope. Thus, H+ act like light in effecting membrane current suppression but behave as if their effect is mediated through Ca2+. Based on these results and properties of rod disk membrane phosphodiesterase, we propose that protons produced in the light-activated hydrolysis of cGMP liberate Ca2+ from the disks by ion exchange.
采用吸移管技术记录分离的蛙视杆细胞的膜电流,并用灌注技术测试其对H⁺的敏感性。已确定以下事实:(i)[H⁺]升高会迅速且可逆地抑制外段的Na⁺电导。(ii)H⁺在视杆细胞内部起作用。(iii)使Na⁺电导降低50%所需的[H⁺]与[Ca²⁺]在超过5个数量级范围内呈反比关系。(iv)作为[Ca²⁺]的函数,对H⁺的敏感性和对光的敏感性具有相同的斜率。因此,H⁺在影响膜电流抑制方面的作用类似于光,但表现得好像其作用是通过Ca²⁺介导的。基于这些结果以及视杆盘膜磷酸二酯酶的特性,我们提出,在cGMP光激活水解过程中产生的质子通过离子交换从盘膜中释放出Ca²⁺。