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Volume 16, Number 22,
Issue of November 15, 1996
pp. 7137-7150
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
Heteromultimerization of G-Protein-Gated Inwardly Rectifying
K+ Channel Proteins GIRK1 and GIRK2 and Their Altered
Expression in weaver Brain
Received Aug. 13, 1996; accepted Aug. 22, 1996.
Y. Joyce Liao,
Yuh Nung Jan, and
Lily Yeh Jan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Physiology and
Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco,
California 94143-0724
The weaver (wv) gene (GIRK2) is a
member of the G-protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK)
channel family, known effectors in the signal transduction pathway of
neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine, dopamine, opioid peptides, and
substance P in modulation of neurotransmitter release and neuronal
excitability. GIRK2 immunoreactivity is found in but not limited to
brain regions known to be affected in wv mice, such as
the cerebellar granule cells and dopaminergic neurons in the substantia
nigra pars compacta. It is also observed in the ventral tegmental area,
hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and thalamus. GIRK2 and GIRK1, a related
family member, have overlapping yet distinct distributions in rat and
mouse brains. In regions where both channel proteins are expressed,
such as the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and cerebellum, they can be
co-immunoprecipitated, indicating that they interact to form
heteromeric channels in vivo. In the brain of the
wv mouse, GIRK2 expression is decreased dramatically. In
regions where GIRK1 and GIRK2 distributions overlap, both GIRK1 and
GIRK2 expressions are severely disrupted, probably because of their
co-assembly. The expression patterns of these GIRK channel subunits
provide a basis for consideration of the machinery for neuronal
signaling as well as the differential effects of the wv
mutation in various neurons.
Key words:
weaver mouse;
G-protein;
inwardly rectifying
potassium channel;
dopamine;
hippocampus;
substantia nigra;
cerebellum;
heteromultimerization;
GIRK
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