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Comentario sobre "Los aniones impermeables locales establecen la concentración de cloruro neuronal"

Juha Voipio¹, Walter F Boron², Stephen W Jones²

¹Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. juha.voipio@helsinki.fi.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|September 6, 2014

Resumen

Los aniones impermeables locales no pueden establecer la concentración de cloruro neuronal, lo que contradice los hallazgos de Glykys et al. Esto desafía los principios termodinámicos que rigen la función neuronal y las corrientes GABAAR.

Área de la Ciencia:

La neurociencia es la neurociencia.
Biología celular Biología celular.
La biofísica es la biofísica.

Sus antecedentes:

La concentración de cloruro neuronal es crucial para regular la neurotransmisión inhibidora a través de las corrientes GABAAR.
El entendimiento establecido involucra transportadores de iones en el mantenimiento de gradientes electroquímicos.
Glykys y otros. propuso un mecanismo alternativo que involucra a los aniones impermeables.

Objetivo del estudio:

Evaluar críticamente la viabilidad termodinámica del mecanismo propuesto por Glykys et al.
Para determinar el papel de los aniones impermeables locales en la concentración de cloruro neuronal.
Conciliar los hallazgos con los principios fundamentales de la termodinámica.

Principales métodos:

Análisis termodinámico del transporte de iones y gradientes de concentración.
Modelado teórico de la homeostasis del cloruro neuronal.
Revisión y crítica de la literatura existente y los mecanismos propuestos.

Principales resultados:

El mecanismo propuesto por Glykys et al. viola la segunda ley de la termodinámica.
El establecimiento de la concentración de cloruro neuronal a través de aniones impermeables requeriría máquinas de movimiento iónico perpetuo.
Los transportadores de iones son esenciales para mantener los gradientes de cloruro neuronal.

Conclusiones:

Las conclusiones de Glykys y cols. son termodinámicamente imposibles. son termodinámicamente imposibles. son termodinámicamente imposibles. son termodinámicamente imposibles.
La concentración de cloruro neuronal está regulada por los mecanismos de transporte de iones activos, no por la acumulación pasiva de aniones.
Los hallazgos subrayan la importancia de adherirse a los principios termodinámicos en la investigación en neurociencias.

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