TITLE small conductance calcium activated potassium channels
COMMENT
sKCa - kinetics from Hirschberg (1998), at room temperature
(22-24degC).
How the q10 works: There is a q10 for the rates (alpha and beta's)
called Q10 and a Q10 for the maximum conductance called gmaxQ10. The
q10s should have been measured at specific temperatures temp1 and
temp2 (that are 10degC apart). Ideally, as Q10 is temperature
dependant, we should know these two temperatures. We used to
follow the more formal Arrhenius derived Q10 approach. The
temperature at which this channel's kinetics were recorded is tempb
(base temperature). What we then need to calculate is the desired
rate scale for now working at temperature celsius (rate_k). This was
given by the empirical Arrhenius equation, using the Q10, but now is
using the quick Q10 approximation.
ENDCOMMENT
NEURON {
SUFFIX sKCa
USEION ca READ cai
USEION k READ ki,ek WRITE ik
RANGE gk,isKCa
GLOBAL sKCatau,activate_Q10,Q10,gmaxQ10,rate_k,gmax_k,temp1,temp2,tempb
}
UNITS {
(mM) = (milli/liter)
(mA) = (milliamp)
F = (faraday) (coulombs) : Faradays constant
}
PARAMETER {
v (mV)
dt (ms)
gk = 0.0001 (mho/cm2)
isKCa = 0.0 (mA/cm2)
sKCatau = 2.365325544e+01 (ms)
ek
ki
cai
celsius
activate_Q10 = 1
Q10 = 1.5
gmaxQ10 = 1.5
temp1 = 19.0 (degC)
temp2 = 29.0 (degC)
tempb = 23.0 (degC)
}
ASSIGNED {
ica (mA/cm2)
ik (mA/cm2)
winf
wtau (ms)
rate_k
gmax_k
}
STATE {
w
}
BREAKPOINT {
SOLVE integrate METHOD cnexp
ik = (gk*gmax_k)*w*(v-ek)
isKCa = ik
}
UNITSOFF
INITIAL {
LOCAL ktemp,ktempb,ktemp1,ktemp2
if (activate_Q10>0) {
rate_k = Q10^((celsius-tempb)/10)
gmax_k = gmaxQ10^((celsius-tempb)/10)
}else{
rate_k = 1.0
gmax_k = 1.0
}
setinf(cai)
w = winf
}
DERIVATIVE integrate {
setinf(cai)
w' = (winf - w)/wtau
}
PROCEDURE setinf(cai) {
LOCAL wcai
: these equations are for micro Molar
wcai = cai*1000
winf = 0.81/(1+exp((llog(wcai)+0.3)/ -0.46))
wtau = sKCatau/rate_k
}
FUNCTION llog(x) { :returns log of x, but error checks first
if (x>1e-11) {
llog = log(x)
}else{
llog=0
}
}
UNITSON