Figure 2.

Proton inhibition of CLC-5 currents in low extracellular Cl. (A) Plot of normalized currents at +60 (filled circles) and +110 (open circles) mV as a function of pH. Solid lines are fits to Eq. 3 as described in Results, with K = 7.1 × 10−7, Imax = 0.98 and Imin = 0.25 at +60 mV, and K = 2.1 × 10−6, Imax = 0.97 and Imin = 0.24 at +110 mV. Dotted lines represent the fits at +110 (gray) and +60 (black) mV at 100 mM [Cl]ex. (B) Plot of the mean values of the pK obtained as in A, versus voltage. Solid line is a fit to pK(V) = pK(0) + zFV/RT, where pK(V) is the pK at voltage V, pK(0) = 6.7 is the pK extrapolated at V = 0, z = 0.56 is the fraction of the membrane potential acting on the blocking ion, and F, R, and T have their usual meanings.

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