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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 15, 2001, 21(4):1228-1237
Assembly with the NR1 Subunit Is Required for Surface Expression
of NR3A-Containing NMDA Receptors
Isabel
Pérez-Otaño1,
Christine T.
Schulteis1,
Anis
Contractor1,
Stuart A.
Lipton2,
James S.
Trimmer3,
Nikolaus J.
Sucher4, and
Stephen F.
Heinemann1
1 Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, 2 Center for Neuroscience and Aging, The Burnham Institute,
La Jolla, California 92037, 3 Department of Biochemistry
and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
11794, and 4 Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Functional NMDA receptors are heteromultimeric complexes of the NR1
subunit in combination with at least one of the four NR2 subunits
(A-D). Coexpression of NR3A, an additional subunit of the NMDA
receptor family, modifies NMDA-mediated responses. It is unclear
whether NR3A interacts directly with NR1 and/or NR2 subunits and how
such association might regulate the intracellular trafficking and
membrane expression of NR3A. Here we show that NR3A coassembles with
NR1-1a and NR2A to form a receptor complex with distinct single-channel
properties and a reduced relative calcium permeability. NR3A associates
independently with both NR1-1a and NR2A in the endoplasmic reticulum,
but only heteromeric complexes containing the NR1-1a NMDA receptor
subunit are targeted to the plasma membrane. Homomeric NR3A complexes
or complexes composed of NR2A and NR3A were not detected on the cell
surface and are retained in the endoplasmic reticulum. Coexpression of NR1-1a facilitates the surface expression of NR3A-containing receptors, reduces the accumulation of NR3A subunits in the endoplasmic reticulum, and induces the appearance of intracellular clusters where both subunits are colocalized. Our data demonstrate a role for subunit oligomerization and specifically assembly with the NR1 subunit in the
trafficking and plasma membrane targeting of the receptor complex.
Key words:
NMDA receptor; glutamate; calcium permeability; single
channel; surface expression; assembly; NR3A
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/2141228-10$05.00/0
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