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Dr. Woodbury's present address is the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. Dr. Miles's present address is the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506.
Anion conductance and permeability sequences were obtained for frog skeletal muscle membranes from the changes in characteristic resistance and transmembrane potential after the replacement of one anion by another in the bathing solution. Permeability and conductance sequences are the same. The conductance sequence at pH = 7.4 is Cl- Br- > NO3- > I- > trichloroacetate 
benzoate > valerate > butyrate > proprionate > formate > acetate lactate > benzenesulfonate isethionate > methylsulfonate > glutamate cysteate. The anions are divided into two classes: (a) Chloride-like anions (Cl- through trichloroacetate) have membrane conductances that decrease as pH decreases. The last six members of the complete sequence are also chloride like. (b) Benzoate-like anions (benzoate through acetate) have conductances that increase as pH decreases. At pH = 6.7 zinc ions block Cl- and benzoate conductances with inhibitory dissociation constants of 0.12 and 0.16 mM, respectively. Chloride-like and benzoate-like anions probably use the same channels. The minimum size of the channel aperture is estimated as 5.5 x 6.5 Å from the dimensions of the largest permeating anions. A simple model of the channel qualitatively explains chloride-like and benzoate-like conductance sequences and their dependence on pH.
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