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. 2017 May 26;7:2448. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02438-0

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Interaction of Ang II with single lysenin channels inserted into lipid membranes bathed by 1 M KCl solutions buffered with 10 mM Tris and 1 mM EDTA at pH 6.9. (a) Insertion of a single channel in the bilayer membrane was observed as a step change in the ionic current at −60 mV transmembrane potential (sampling time 1 s, 1 kHz low pass hardware filter, and 10 Hz low pass software filter). No transient changes in the ionic current established through two open lysenin channels were observed at −80 mV when: (b) no Ang II was added to the solutions, and (c) Ang II was added to the trans reservoir. (d) Addition of Ang II to the cis reservoir yielded multiple transient changes in the ionic current, indicative of interactions between the channel and peptides. The traces shown in panels (bd) have been recorded with a sampling time of 4 μs and a 10 kHz low pass hardware filter.