Current density as routine parameter for description of ionic membrane current: is it always the best option?

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/20:00118627

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610719301452?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610719301452?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.11.011" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.11.011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Current density as routine parameter for description of ionic membrane current: is it always the best option?

Original language description

The current density (J) is a parameter routinely used to characterize individual ionic membrane currents. Its evaluation is based on the presumption that the magnitude of whole-cell ionic membrane current (I) is directly proportional to the cell membrane capacitance (C), i.e. I positively and strongly correlates with C and the regression line describing I-C relation intersects the y-axis close to the origin of coordinates. We aimed to prove the presumption in several examples and find whether the conversion of I to J could be always beneficial. I-C relation was analysed in several potassium currents, measured in rat atrial myocytes (in inward rectifier currents, IK1, and both the constitutively active and acetylcholine-induced components of acetylcholine-sensitive current, IK(Ach)CONST and IK(Ach)ACH), and in rat ventricular myocytes (transient outward current Ito). I-C correlation was estimated by the Pearson coefficient (r). A coefficient (k) was newly suggested describing deviation of the regression intercept from zero in currents with considerable r value. Based on mathematical simulations, I was satisfactorily proportional to C when r ≥ 0.6 and k ≤ 0.2 which was fulfilled in IK1 and IK(Ach)ACH (r=0.84, k=0.20, and r=0.61, k=0.06, respectively). I-C correlation was significantly positive, but weak in IK(Ach)CONST (r=0.42), and virtually missing in Ito (r=0.04). The altered I-C proportionality in IK(Ach)CONST and Ito likely reflects heterogeneity of the channel expression. We conclude that the conversion of I to J should be avoided when I-C proportionality is absent. Otherwise, serious misinterpretation of data may arise.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10610 - Biophysics

Project

<a href="/en/project/NV16-30571A" target="_blank" >NV16-30571A: Clinical significance and electrophysiological evaluation of KCNQ1 gene mutation c.926C>T (p.T309I) as a possible long QT syndrome founder mutation</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology

ISSN

0079-6107

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

157

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

24-32

UT code for WoS article

000582745400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85076566566