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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 2000, 20(12):4471-4479

Regulation of the On Bipolar Cell mGluR6 Pathway by Ca²⁺

Scott Nawy

Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461

Glutamate produces a hyperpolarizing synaptic potential in On bipolar cells by binding to the metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR6, leading to closure of a cation channel. Here it is demonstrated that this cation channel is regulated by intracellular Ca²⁺. Glutamate-evoked currents were recorded from On bipolar cells in light-adapted salamander retinal slices in the presence of 2 mM external Ca²⁺. When glutamate was applied almost continuously, interrupted only briefly to measure the size of the response, the glutamate response remained robust. However, currents elicited by intermittent and brief applications of glutamate exhibited time-dependent run down. Run down of the glutamate response was also voltage dependent, because it was accelerated by membrane hyperpolarization. Run down was triggered, at least in part, by a rise in intracellular Ca²⁺; measured as a function of time or voltage, it was attenuated by intracellular buffering of Ca²⁺ with BAPTA or by omitting Ca²⁺ from the bathing solution. Current-voltage measurements demonstrated that Ca²⁺ induced run down of the glutamate response by downregulating cation channel function, rather than by preventing closure of the channel by glutamate and mGluR6. A major source of the Ca²⁺ that mediated this inhibition is the cation channel itself, which was found to be permeable to Ca²⁺, accounting for the use dependence of the run down. These results suggest that Ca²⁺ influx through the cation channel during background illumination could provide a signal to close the cation channel and repolarize the membrane toward its dark potential, an adaptive mechanism for coping with changes in ambient light.

Key words: calcium; mGluR6; cation channel; metabotropic; retina; bipolar cell

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