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Volume 16, Number 20,
Issue of October 15, 1996
pp. 6353-6363
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
Functional Diversity of P-Type and R-Type Calcium Channels in Rat
Cerebellar Neurons
Received May 6, 1996; revised July 9, 1996; accepted July 24, 1996.
Angelita Tottene,
Alessandra Moretti, and
Daniela Pietrobon
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche Center of Biomembranes, University of Padova, 35131 Padova,
Italy
By combining single-channel and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings,
we have established the sensitivity to -agatoxin IVA and
-conotoxin MVIIC (SNX-230) of G1, G2, and G3, the three novel
non-L-, non-N-type Ca2+ channels characterized previously
in rat cerebellar granule cells. G1 channels were blocked irreversibly
by both -conotoxin MVIIC and low doses of -agatoxin IVA
(saturation at 50 nM). Thus, according to pharmacological
criteria, G1 channels must be classified as P-type Ca2+
channels. Being slowly inactivating during depolarizing pulses and
completely inactivated at voltages in which steady-state inactivation
of P-type channels in Purkinje cells is negligible, G1 represents a
novel P subtype. Neither G2 nor G3 was blocked irreversibly by
-conotoxin MVIIC, and therefore both are R-type Ca2+
channels. G2 and G3 have some biophysical properties similar to those
of low-voltage-activated (LVA) Ca2+ channels (e.g., voltage
range for steady-state inactivation,
V1/2 = 90 mV), some properties similar to
those of high-voltage-activated (HVA) Ca2+ channels (e.g.,
high sensitivity to Cd2+ block), and other properties
intermediate between those of LVA and HVA Ca2+ channels,
with LVA properties prevailing in G2 and HVA properties prevailing in
G3. The R-type whole-cell current was inhibited by Ni2+
with a biphasic dose-response curve (IC50: 4 and 153 µM), suggesting that G2 and G3 may have a different
sensitivity to Ni2+ block. Our results uncover functional
diversity of both native P-type and R-type Ca2+ channels
and show that R subtypes with distinct biophysical properties are
coexpressed in rat cerebellar granule cells.
Key words:
calcium channel;
cerebellum;
granule neuron;
patch clamp;
conotoxin;
agatoxin;
channel diversity
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