Single-channel recordings demonstrate that cGMP opens the light-sensitive ion channel of the rod photoreceptor
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Single-channel recordings demonstrate that cGMP opens the light-sensitive ion channel of the rod photoreceptor
Abstract
Patch-clamp recordings were made from outer segments of single dark-adapted rod photoreceptors from toad retina. When patch pipettes were filled with a solution free of divalent cations, inward current through individual light-sensitive ion channels was sufficiently large to allow single-channel recording. Channel activity was suppressed by illumination within the normal response range of the dark-adapted rod. When illumination was restricted to a portion of the outer segment, the effect of light on channel activity was spatially localized to the illuminated region. Hyperpolarization of the recorded patch did not reduce the frequency of channel opening, indicating that the suppression of channel activity by light was due to illumination itself and not to light-induced hyperpolarization of the rod. After recording single light-sensitive channel activity in the intact cell, the patch of membrane was detached to form an excised, inside-out patch. Cyclic GMP applied to the intracellular face of the excised patch then opened a channel that appeared to be the same as the light-sensitive channel recorded earlier from the same membrane in the intact, functioning rod. This provides direct evidence that cyclic GMP acts as an internal transmitter that opens the light-sensitive channel of the vertebrate photoreceptor.
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