title: Channel behavior in a gamma-aminobutyrate transporter.
abstract: Current produced by a gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) transporter stably transfected into a mammalian cell line was observed in cell-attached and excised membrane patches. When GABA was absent, a fraction of the transporters produced cation-permeable channels. When GABA plus Na+ was on either side of the membrane, the majority of transporters produced a high-frequency current noise attributed to the movement of ions in an occluded pore.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Cammack
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002412:Cations / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002712:Chlorides / Q000378:metabolism; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D050485:GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D005942:Gluconates / Q000378:metabolism; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D009557:Nipecotic Acids; D027361:Organic Anion Transporters; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism; D014162:Transfection; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D002412:Cations; D002712:Chlorides; D050485:GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D005942:Gluconates; D007473:Ion Channels; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D009557:Nipecotic Acids; D027361:Organic Anion Transporters; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; C045598:N-(4,4-diphenyl-3-butenyl)nipecotic acid; D012964:Sodium