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Volume 17, Number 9,
Issue of May 1, 1997
pp. 3136-3147
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Differential Expression of K4-AP Currents and Kv3.1
Potassium Channel Transcripts in Cortical Neurons that Develop Distinct
Firing Phenotypes
Received Nov. 26, 1996; revised Feb. 12, 1997; accepted Feb. 14, 1997.
Jennifer L. Massengill,
Martin A. Smith,
Dong Ik Son, and
Diane
K. O'Dowd
Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Developmental and Cell
Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-1280
Maturation of electrical excitability during early postnatal
development is critical to formation of functional neural circuitry in
the mammalian neocortex. Little is known, however, about the changes in
gene expression underlying the development of firing properties that
characterize different classes of cortical neurons. Here we describe
the development of cortical neurons with two distinct firing
phenotypes, regular-spiking (RS) and fast-spiking (FS), that appear to
emerge from a population of immature multiple-spiking (IMS) neurons
during the first two postnatal weeks, both in vivo (within layer IV) and in vitro. We report the expression
of a slowly inactivating, 4-AP-sensitive potassium current
(K4-AP) at significantly higher density in FS compared with
RS neurons. The same current is expressed at intermediate levels in IMS
neurons. The kinetic, voltage-dependent, and pharmacological properties of the K4-AP current are similar to those observed by
heterologous expression of Kv3.1 potassium channel mRNA. Single-cell
RT-PCR analysis demonstrates that PCR products representing Kv3.1
transcripts are amplified more frequently from FS than RS neurons, with
an intermediate frequency of Kv3.1 detection in neurons with immature firing properties. Taken together, these data suggest that the Kv3.1
gene encodes the K4-AP current and that expression of this gene is regulated in a cell-specific manner during development. Analysis of the effects of 4-AP on firing properties suggests that the
K4-AP current is important for rapid action potential repolarization, fast after-hyperpolarization, brief refractory period,
and high firing frequency characteristic of FS GABAergic interneurons.
Key words:
Kv3.1 mRNA;
potassium currents;
cortical neurons;
development;
single cell RT-PCR;
fast spiking;
regular spiking;
mouse
somatosensory cortex;
firing properties
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