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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 2002, 22(5):1709-1717
Characterization of Central Inhibitory Muscarinic Autoreceptors
by the Use of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Knock-Out Mice
Weilie
Zhang1,
Anthony
S.
Basile1,
Jesus
Gomeza1,
Laura A.
Volpicelli2,
Allan I.
Levey2, and
Jürgen
Wess1
1 Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda,
Maryland 20892, and 2 Department of Neurology, Emory
University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Forebrain muscarinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors (mAChRs;
M1-M5) are predicted to play important
roles in many fundamental central functions, including higher cognitive
processes and modulation of extrapyramidal motor activity. Synaptic ACh
levels are known to be regulated by the activity of presynaptic
muscarinic autoreceptors mediating inhibition of ACh release. Primarily
because of the use of ligands with limited receptor subtype
selectivity, classical pharmacological studies have led to conflicting
results regarding the identity of the mAChR subtypes mediating this
activity in different areas of the brain. To investigate the molecular
identity of hippocampal, cortical, and striatal inhibitory muscarinic
autoreceptors in a more direct manner, we used genetically altered mice
lacking functional M2 and/or M4 mAChRs
[knock-out (KO) mice]. After labeling of cellular ACh pools
with [3H]choline, potassium-stimulated
[3H]ACh release was measured in superfused brain
slices, either in the absence or the presence of muscarinic drugs. The
nonsubtype-selective muscarinic agonist, oxotremorine (0.1-10
µM), inhibited potassium-stimulated [3H]ACh release in hippocampal, cortical, and
striatal slices prepared from wild-type mice by up to 80%. This
activity was totally abolished in tissues prepared from
M2-M4 receptor double KO mice. Strikingly, release studies with brain slices from M2 and
M4 receptor single KO mice indicated that autoinhibition of
ACh release is mediated primarily by the M2 receptor in
hippocampus and cerebral cortex, but predominantly by the
M4 receptor in the striatum. These results, together with
additional receptor localization studies, support the novel concept
that autoinhibition of ACh release involves different mAChRs in
different regions of the brain.
Key words:
acetylcholine release; autoreceptors; knock-out mice; muscarinic receptors; oxotremorine; presynaptic
receptors
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/2251709-09$05.00/0
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