title: Subconductance block of single mechanosensitive ion channels in skeletal muscle fibers by aminoglycoside antibiotics.
abstract: The activity of single mechanosensitive channels was recorded from cell-attached patches on acutely isolated skeletal muscle fibers from the mouse. The experiments were designed to investigate the mechanism of channel block produced by externally applied aminoglycoside antibiotics. Neomycin and other aminoglycosides reduced the amplitude of the single-channel current at negative membrane potentials. The block was concentration-dependent, with a half-maximal concentration of approximately 200 microM. At high drug concentrations, however, block was incomplete with roughly one third of the current remaining unblocked. Neomycin also caused the channel to fluctuate between the open state and a subconductance level that was also roughly one third the amplitude of the fully open level. An analysis of the kinetics of the subconductance fluctuations was consistent with a bimolecular reaction between an aminoglycoside molecule and the open channel (kon = approximately 1 x 10(6) M-1s-1 and koff = approximately 400 s-1 at -60 mV). Increasing the external pH reduced both the rapid block of the open channel and the frequency of the subconductance fluctuations, as if both blocking actions were produced by a single active drug species with a pKa = approximately 7.5. The results are interpreted in terms of a mechanism in which an aminoglycoside molecule partially occludes ion flow through the channel pore.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0450, USA.
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Winegar
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Haws
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Lansman
mesh_terms: D000617:Aminoglycosides; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000187:drug effects*; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008954:Models, Biological; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D000617:Aminoglycosides; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D007473:Ion Channels