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. 1996 Nov;71(5):2544–2552. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79447-X

Fast voltage clamp discloses a new component of presteady-state currents from the Na(+)-glucose cotransporter.

X Z Chen 1, M J Coady 1, J Y Lapointe 1
PMCID: PMC1233742  PMID: 8913593

Abstract

The human Na(+)-glucose cotransporter (hSGLT1) has been shown to generate, in the absence of sugar, presteady-state currents in response to a change in potential, which could be fitted with single exponentials once the voltage had reached a new constant value. By the cut-open oocyte technique (voltage rising-speed approximately 1 mV/microsecond), phlorizin-sensitive transient currents could be detected with a higher time resolution during continuous intracellular perfusion. In the absence of sugar and internal Na+, and with 90 mM external Na+ concentration ([Na+]o), phlorizin-sensitive currents exhibited two relaxation time-constants: tau 1 increased from 2 to 10 ms when Vm decreased from +60 mV to -80 mV and remained at 10 ms for more negative Vm; tau 2 ranged from 0.4 to 0.8 ms in a weakly voltage-dependent manner. According to a previously proposed model, these two time constants could be accounted for by 1) Na+ crossing a fraction of the membrane electrical field to reach its binding site on the carrier and 2) conformational change of the free carrier. To test this hypothesis, the time constants were measured as [Na+]o was progressively reduced to 0 mM. At 30 and 10 mM external Na+, tau 1 reached the same plateau value of 10 ms but at more negative potentials (-120 and -160 mV, respectively). Contrary to the prediction of the model, two time constants continued to be detected in the bilateral absence of Na+ (at pH 8.0). Under these conditions, tau 1 continuously increased through the whole voltage range and did not reach the 10 ms level even when Vm had attained -200 mV while tau 2 remained in the range of 0.4-0.8 ms. These results indicate that 1) conformational change of the free carrier across the membrane must occur in more than one step and 2) Na+ binding/debinding is not responsible for either of the two observed exponential components of transient currents. By use of the simplest kinetic model accounting for the portion of the hSGLT1 transport cycle involving extracellular Na+ binding/debinding and the dual-step conformational change of the free carrier, tau 1 and tau 2 were fitted throughout the voltage range, and a few sets of parameters were found to reproduce the data satisfactorily. This study shows that 1) tau 1 and tau 2 correspond to two steps in the conformational change of the free carrier, 2) Na+ binding/debinding modulates the slow time constant (tau 1) and 3) a voltage-independent slow conformational change of the free carrier accounts for the observed plateau value of 10 ms.

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