br Conclusions The mutation T L present in the

Conclusions The mutation T290L present in the Gaba-Cl of dieldrin-resistant R. australis tick strains from Australia is not present in the tick populations from Brazil and Uruguay analysed in this study. Other mutations in the transmembrane 2 domain of Gaba-Cl were detected in fipronil- and lindane-resistant ticks. The amino Etravirine change A286S/L could be related to the same alanine residue replaced by serine (A302S) described in insects resistant to cyclodienes and phenylpyrazoles.
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Introduction Investigations of intracellular channels present unique technical challenges. Perhaps most importantly, channels expressed exclusively on intracellular membranes are largely inaccessible to the direct application of the powerful patch-clamp techniques that led to rapid characterization of plasma membrane ion channels. As an alternative, intracellular channels can be studied in isolated vesicle fractions, but membrane fractionation techniques are always imperfect, with unavoidable contamination of membranes prepared from one organelle with those from other compartments. While low level contamination may not be critical to typical biochemical studies, contamination can be a fatal confounder in single molecule assays such as single channel recordings. These and other technical obstacles have impeded progress. Nonetheless, anion conductances have been demonstrated in numerous intracellular compartments and a host of discreet chloride channel activities have been described [1], [2], [3]. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the regulation of concentration or amount of chloride itself within compartments has not been seen as the major role of these intracellular chloride channels. Instead, the key role of chloride permeability has been thought to be to function as a short-circuiting conductance to allow transport by electrogenic cation transport mechanisms. For example, acidification of intracellular organelles by the electrogenic proton ATPase is recognized as a process that requires a short-circuiting conductance to allow transmembrane cation transport [4], [5]. Other processes which may require a chloride short-circuiting conductance across intracellular membranes include calcium transport across the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) [3], [6] and potassium influx into secretory vesicles [7].
Roles for intracellular chloride channels
Specific chloride channel proteins in intracellular membranes
Concluding remarks
Introduction The sulfonylurea derivative glybenclamide (GLYB) is used as oral hypoglycemic agent to treat non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus [1], [2]. The antidiabetic sulfonylureas in general bind to high affinity sulfonylurea receptors, which are the structural elements of ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels, and so inhibit the channels [3], [4]. The property of GLYB to inhibit KATP channel is widely used as a pharmacological tool in numerous studies including mitochondria [3]. Effect of GLYB on mitochondrial function is complex. It activates cyclosporine A-sensitive mitochondrial permeability transition, induces swelling of mitochondria, increases calcium efflux, inhibits K+ and Na+ uniports, decreases the mitochondrial membrane potential, inhibits respiration and interferes with mitochondrial bioenergetics or reduced intracellular ATP level [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. The complexity of the GLYB effects indicates that more than one molecular mechanism is involved.