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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 15, 1998, 18(8):2856-2870
A Reluctant Gating Mode of Glycine Receptor Channels Determines
the Time Course of Inhibitory Miniature Synaptic Events in Zebrafish
Hindbrain Neurons
Pascal
Legendre
Institut des Neurosciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Miniature IPSCs (mIPSCs) recorded in the Mauthner (M)-cell of
zebrafish larvae have a broad amplitude distribution that is attributable only partly to the functional heterogeneity of
postsynaptic glycine receptors (GlyRs). The role of the kinetic
properties of GlyRs in amplitude fluctuation was investigated using
fast-flow application techniques on outside-out patches. Short
applications of a saturating glycine concentration evoked outside-out
currents with a biphasic deactivation phase as observed for mIPSCs, and they were consistent with a rapid clearance of glycine from the synaptic cleft. Patch currents declined slowly during continuous applications of 3 mM glycine, but the biphasic deactivation
phase of mIPSCs cannot reflect a desensitization process because
paired-pulse desensitization was not observed. The maximum open
probability (Po) of GlyRs was close
to 0.9 with 3 mM glycine. Analyses of the onset of
outside-out currents evoked by 0.1 mM glycine are consistent with the presence of two equivalent binding sites with a
Kd of O.3-O.4 mM. Activation and
deactivation properties of GlyRs were better described with a kinetic
model, including two binding states, a doubly liganded open state, and
a reluctant gating mode leading to another open state. The 20-80%
rise time of mIPSCs was independent of their amplitude and is identical to that of outside-out currents evoked by the applications of a
saturating concentration of glycine (>1 mM). These results
support the hypothesis that GlyR kinetics determines the time course of synaptic events at M-cell inhibitory synapses and that large mIPSC amplitude fluctuations are mainly of postsynaptic origin.
Key words:
glycine receptors; reluctant gating mode; zebrafish
larva; miniature inhibitory synaptic currents; Mauthner cell; glycinergic synapses; channel kinetics
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/1882856-15$05.00/0
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