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The Journal of Neuroscience, August 1, 2001, 21(15):5574-5586
Subunit Interactions and AMPA Receptor Desensitization
Antoine
Robert1,
Stacey
N.
Irizarry1,
Thomas E.
Hughes2, and
James R.
Howe1
Departments of 1 Pharmacology and
2 Ophthalmology, Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, Connecticut 06520-8066
Most AMPA-type glutamate receptors (GluRs) exhibit rapid and
virtually complete desensitization when activated by glutamate, and at
some central synapses it is largely desensitization that determines the
decay of EPSCs. However, the mechanisms underlying the
conformation change that results in desensitization are not fully
understood. AMPA receptor subunits that contain a single amino acid
substitution have been shown to form homomeric channels that show
markedly reduced desensitization. We show here that the coexpression of
wild-type GluR1 with one such mutant, GluR1(L497Y), results in
heteromeric channels that show desensitization behavior that is
intermediate between wild-type and mutant homomers. The relative
amplitudes of the multiple exponential components present in the decay
of glutamate-evoked currents depended on the relative abundance of
wild-type and mutant subunits and were described by the combinatorial
distribution of the two types of subunits into tetrameric, but not
pentameric, assemblies. Our results are consistent with recent
structural data suggesting that AMPA receptors are tetrameric
assemblies composed of two dimers.
Key words:
glutamate; AMPA receptor; desensitization; subunit
interactions; allosteric; kinetics
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21155574-13$05.00/0
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