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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 1999, 19(12):4786-4795
Activity-Dependent Modulation of Rod Photoreceptor Cyclic
Nucleotide-Gated Channels Mediated by Phosphorylation of a Specific
Tyrosine Residue
Elena
Molokanova,
Floyd
Maddox,
Charles W.
Luetje, and
Richard H.
Kramer
Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of
Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels are crucial for
phototransduction in vertebrate rod photoreceptors. The cGMP
sensitivity of these channels is modulated by diffusible
intracellular messengers, including Ca2+/calmodulin,
contributing to negative feedback during sensory adaptation.
Membrane-associated protein tyrosine kinases and phosphatases also
modulate rod CNG channels, but whether this results from direct changes
in the phosphorylation state of the channel protein has been unclear.
Here, we show that bovine rod CNG channel -subunits (bRET) contain a
tyrosine phosphorylation site crucial for modulation. bRET channels
expressed in Xenopus oocytes exhibit modulation, whereas
rat olfactory CNG channels (rOLF) do not. Chimeric channels reveal that
differences in the C terminus, containing the cyclic nucleotide-binding
domain, account for this difference. One specific tyrosine in bRET
(Y498) appears to be crucial; replacement of this tyrosine in bRET
curtails modulation, whereas installation into rOLF confers
modulability. As the channel becomes dephosphorylated, there is an
increase in the rate of spontaneous openings in the absence of ligand,
indicating that changes in the phosphorylation state affect the
allosteric gating equilibrium. Moreover, we find that
dephosphorylation, which favors channel opening, requires open
channels, whereas phosphorylation, which promotes channel closing,
requires closed channels. Hence, modulation by changes in tyrosine
phosphorylation is activity-dependent and may constitute a positive
feedback mechanism, contrasting with negative feedback systems
underlying adaptation.
Key words:
rod photoreceptor; protein kinase; cyclic GMP; phototransduction; tyrosine kinase; phosphorylation
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/19124786-10$05.00/0
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