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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 7, 2005, 25(49):11468-11478; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3484-05.2005

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Molecular and Cellular Diversity of Neuronal G-Protein-Gated Potassium Channels

Lev Koyrakh,1 * Rafael Luján,2 * Jose Colón,1 Christine Karschin,3 Yoshihisa Kurachi,4 Andreas Karschin,3 and Kevin Wickman1

1Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, 2Centro Regional de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 02006 Albacete, Spain, 3Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany, and 4Department of Pharmacology II, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Neuronal G-protein-gated potassium (GIRK) channels mediate the inhibitory effects of many neurotransmitters. Although the overlapping distribution of GIRK subunits suggests that channel composition varies in the CNS, little direct evidence supports the existence of structural or functional diversity in the neuronal GIRK channel repertoire. Here we show that the GIRK channels linked to GABAB receptors differed in two neuron populations. In the substantia nigra, GIRK2 was the principal subunit, and it was found primarily in dendrites of neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Baclofen evoked prominent barium-sensitive outward current in dopamine neurons of the SNc from wild-type mice, but this current was completely absent in neurons from GIRK2 knock-out mice. In the hippocampus, all three neuronal GIRK subunits were detected. The loss of GIRK1 or GIRK2 was correlated with equivalent, dramatic reductions in baclofen-evoked current in CA1 neurons. Virtually all of the barium-sensitive component of the baclofen-evoked current was eliminated with the ablation of both GIRK2 and GIRK3, indicating that channels containing GIRK3 contribute to the postsynaptic inhibitory effect of GABAB receptor activation. The impact of GIRK subunit ablation on baclofen-evoked current was consistent with observations that GIRK1, GIRK2, and GABAB receptors were enriched in lipid rafts isolated from mouse brain, whereas GIRK3 was found primarily in higher-density membrane fractions. Altogether, our data show that different GIRK channel subtypes can couple to GABAB receptors in vivo. Furthermore, subunit composition appears to specify interactions between GIRK channels and organizational elements involved in channel distribution and efficient receptor coupling.

Key words: knock-out; mice; baclofen; hippocampus; substantia nigra; GABA

Received Aug 17, 2005; revised October 20, 2005; accepted October 20, 2005.




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