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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 12, 2005, 25(2):308-317; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3967-04.2005
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The Micromolar Zinc-Binding Domain on the NMDA Receptor Subunit NR2B
Julie Rachline, * Florent Perin-Dureau, * Anne Le Goff, Jacques Neyton, andPierre Paoletti Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8544, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France
Eukaryotic ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits possess a large N-terminal domain (NTD) distinct from the neighboring agonist-binding domain. In NMDA receptors, the NTDs of NR2A and NR2B form modulatory domains binding allosteric inhibitors. Despite a high sequence homology, these two domains have been shown to bind two ligands of strikingly different chemical nature. Whereas the NTD of NR2A binds zinc with high (nanomolar) affinity, the NTD of NR2B binds the synthetic neuroprotectant ifenprodil and its derivatives. Using both NTD-mutated/deleted receptors and isolated NTDs, we now show that the NTD of NR2B, in contrast to NR2C and NR2D, also binds zinc, but with a lower affinity. Furthermore, we present evidence that zinc and ifenprodil compete for an overlapping binding site. This modulatory binding site accounts for the submicromolar zinc inhibition of NR1/NR2B receptors. Given that zinc is accumulated and released at many glutamatergic synapses in the CNS, these findings suggest that zinc is the endogenous ligand of the NTD of both NR2A and NR2B, the two major NR2 subunits. Thus, NMDA receptors contain zinc sensors capable of detecting extracellular zinc over a wide concentration range depending on their NR2 subunit composition. The coexistence of subunit-specific zinc-binding sites of high (nanomolar) and low (micromolar) affinity on NMDA receptors raises the possibility that zinc exerts both a tonic and a phasic control of membrane excitability.
Key words: glutamate receptors; NMDA; zinc; ifenprodil; LIVBP; synaptic transmission
Received June 30, 2004; revised November 11, 2004; accepted November 11, 2004.
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