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. 2021 Oct 26;12:761474. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.761474

Table 1.

Biophysics and Pharmacology of mitoBK and nBK.

Tissue/organism Methodology Unitary conductance (pS) and conditions Biophysical parameters Pharmacology References
Potato tuber (mitoBK) Lipid bilayer 615±12 – gradient cis/trans 50/450mMK+ Vr =+34mV, P0 =0.49 (0 Ca2+; 0mV)/0.84 (300μM Ca2+; 0mV) NS1619
Iberiotoxin
Koszela-Piotrowska et al., 2009
Rat brain (mitoBK) Lipid bilayer ~565 – gradient cis/trans 200/50mMK+ Vr =−30mV Iberiotoxin charybdotoxin Fahanik-Babaei et al., 2011b; Singh et al., 2012
Drosophila melanogaster (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 382±8 – symmetric 150mMK+ N/A NS1619
Paxilline
Gururaja et al., 2019
Guinea pig cardiomyocytes (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 307±4.6 – symmetric 150mMK+ N/A NS1619
NS11021
Paxilline
Xu et al., 2002; Aon et al., 2010
Rat cardiomyocites (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 303±19 – symmetric 140mMK+ V1/2 =−55mV (12μM Ca2+) diCl-DHAA paxilline Sakamoto et al., 2008; Balderas et al., 2019
Rat astrocytes (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 296±18 – symmetric 150mMK+ N/A CGS7181 CGS7184 paxilline charybdotoxin Cheng et al., 2008; Augustynek et al., 2018
Human glioma (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 295±18 – symmetric 150mMK+ Vr =+70mV (150mM Na+), EC50(Ca2+)=900nM (+60mV)/6.9μM (−20mV) Charybdotoxin Siemen et al., 1999
Rat non-neoplastic astrocytes (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast ~290 – symmetric 140mMK+ N/A Iberiotoxin Cheng et al., 2011
HEK293T (DEC splice variant; mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 290±3 – symmetric 150mMK+ V1/2 =+19.2mV (100μM Ca2+), t0 =10.2ms (+60mV) Paxilline Gałecka et al., 2021
Human glioma (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 276±9 – symmetric 150mMK+ Vr =+9.3±2.4mV; O2: 21.1±1.2nmol/ml Charybdotoxin Gu et al., 2007
Rat ventricular myocytes (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast ~270 – symmetric 140mMK+ N/A 17B-estradiol paxilline Ohya et al., 2005
Human endothelium (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 270±10 – symmetric 150mMK+ t0 =0ms (−60mV)/~70ms (+60mV) NS1619 NS11021 paxilline iberiotoxin Bednarczyk et al., 2013a
Rat brain (mitoBK) Lipid bilayer 265±5 – gradient cis/trans 50/450mMK+ Vr =+50mV, Po (+70mV)=0.5 (0 Ca2+)/0.77 (300μM Ca2+) NS1619 iberiotoxin charybdotoxin Skalska et al., 2009
Human glioma (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast 262±12 – symmetric 150mMK+ N/A Charybdotoxin Walewska et al., 2018
Dictyostelium discoideum (mitoBK) Lipid bilayer 258±12 – gradient cis/trans 50/150mMK+ Vr =+27.6±0.5mV, P0 =0.14 (1μM Ca2+; 0mV)/0.48 (100μM Ca2+; 0mV) NS1619 NS11021 paxilline iberiotoxin Laskowski et al., 2015
Rat hippocampal neurons (nBK) Single channel in nuclear envelope 217 pS – symmetric 135mMK+ Vr =0mV, P0 =0.3 (5μM Ca2+)/0.78 (10μM Ca2+) Paxilline Li et al., 2014
Rat brain (mitoBK) Lipid bilayer ~211 – gradient cis/trans 200/50mMK+ Vr =−30mV Iberiotoxin Fahanik-Babaei et al., 2011a; Singh et al., 2012
Rat pancreas (nBK) Single channel in nuclear envelope 200±25 pS – symmetric 148mMK+ Vr =0mV N/A Maruyama et al., 1995
Mice cardiomyocytes (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast ~190 – internal/external=130:10mMK+ t0 =9.23ms, P0 =0.79 (+80mV) NS11021
Paxilline
Soltysinska et al., 2014
Mice cardiomyocytes (mitoBK) Single channel in mitoplast ~145 – symmetric 150mMK+ P0 =0.28 (1μM Ca2+); 0.54 (100μM Ca2+) NS11021
Paxilline
Frankenreiter et al., 2017