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. 2005 Dec 19;1:14. doi: 10.1186/1746-4811-1-14

Table 1.

A comparison of the values of voltage-gating parameters of KAT1 and AKT1 channels in different expression contexts (see text).

Channel Mean value for voltage-gating parameters of the channel in References

Animal cells Yeast cells Plant cells


Xenopus oocytes insect cells (Sf9) Green monkey cos cells Tobacco mesophyll cells Arabidopsis native cells
AKT1 Activation potential (mV) No current(1) -70/-80 (1) No current(2) -140(3) -40 -40(4) (1) Ref [16]
Gating charge No current(1) 1.5(1) No current(2) n.r.(3),* 1.3 ± 0.2 (n = 5) n.r. (4),* (2) Erwan Michard, unpublished
(3) Ref. [34]
Half-activation potential (mV) No current(1) -123(1) No current(2) n.r.(3),* -95 ± 10 (n = 5) n.r. (4),* (4) Ref. [40]
(5) Ref. [35]

KAT1 Activation potential (mV) -80(5) - 60/-80(6) - 100(7) - 120(3) -120 -120 (8) (6) Ref. [38]
(7) Ref. [37]
Gating charge 1.7 ± 0.2 (n = 5)(9) n.r.(6),* 1.6(7) n.r.(3),* 1.7 ± 0.1 (n = 4) 1.6 ± 0.2 (n = 5)(10) (8) Ref. [46]
(9) Ref. [36]
Half-activation potential (mV) -138 ± 7 (n = 5)(9) n.r. (6),* -135(7) n.r. (3),* -164 ± 6 (n = 4) -157 ± 7 (n = 5)(10) (10) Eric Hosy, unpublished
* not reported by these authors