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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 13, 2005, 25(28):6696-6701; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1894-05.2005

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Different Functional Types of Bipolar Cells Use Different Gap-Junctional Proteins

Bin Lin, Tatjana C. Jakobs, and Richard H. Masland

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Rod signals are transmitted to ON retinal ganglion cells by means of gap junctions between AII amacrine cells and ON bipolars. The AII amacrine cells are known to express connexin36 (Cx36), but previous studies of Cx36 in ON cone bipolars have been ambiguous. Here, we studied bipolar cells in a transgenic mouse line that expresses high levels of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in one type of ON cone bipolar cell. We found strong Cx36 immunostaining in the axon terminals of the GFP-labeled type 357 bipolar cells in both vertical sections and whole mounts of the retina. This finding was confirmed by single-cell immunostaining and single-cell reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). As reported previously (Maxeiner et al., 2005), Cx45 was found in some ON bipolar cells, but RT-PCR showed Cx36 and not Cx45 to be expressed by the type 357 bipolar cells. Some of the remaining GFP-negative bipolar cells expressed Cx45 but not Cx36. It appears that different types of ON cone bipolar cells express different connexins at their gap junctions with AII amacrine cells.

Key words: mouse; GFP; retina; Cx36; ON bipolar cell; gap junctions

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Received Oct 8, 2004; revised June 8, 2005; accepted June 9, 2005.

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