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THE PLANT CELL, Vol 6, Issue 5 685-694, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Plant Biologists

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Two Voltage-Gated, Calcium Release Channels Coreside in the Vacuolar Membrane of Broad Bean Guard Cells

G. J. Allen and D. Sanders
Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO1 5DD United Kingdom

Voltage-gated, Ca2+ release channels have been characterized at the vacuolar membrane of broad bean guard cells using patch clamps of excised, inside-out membrane patches. The most prevalent Ca2+ release channel had a conductance of 27 pS over voltages negative of the reversal potential (Erev) (cytosol referenced to vacuole), with 5,10, or 20 mM Ca2+ as the charge carrier on the vacuolar side and 50 mM K+ on the cytosolic side. The single-channel current saturated at ~2.6 pA. The relative permeability of the channel was in the range of a Pca2+:Pk+ ratio of 6:1. Divalent cations could act as charge carriers on the vacuolar side with a conductance series of Ba2+ > Mg2+ > Sr2+ > Ca2+ and a selectivity sequence of Ca2+ [approximately equals to] Ba2+ [approximately equals to] Sr2+ > Mg2+. The channel was gated open by cytosol-negative (physiological) transmembrane voltages, increases in vacuolar Ca2+ concentration, and increases in the vacuolar pH. The channel was potently inhibited by the Ca2+ channel blockers Gd3+ (half-maximal inhibition at 10.3 [mu]M) and nifedipine (half-maximal inhibition at 77 [mu]M). The stilbene derivative 4,4[prime]-diisothiocyano-2,2[prime]-stilbene disulfonate was also inhibitory (half-maximal inhibition for a 4-min incubation period at 6.3[mu]M). The 27-pS channel coresides in individual guard cell vacuoles with a less frequently observed 14-pS Ca2+ release channel that had similar, although not identical, voltage dependence and gating characteristics and a lower selectivity for Ca2+ over K+. The requirement for two channels with a similar function at the vacuolar membrane of guard cells is discussed.


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