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Volume 17, Number 23,
Issue of December 1, 1997
Modulation of Rod Photoreceptor Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels
by Tyrosine Phosphorylation
Elena Molokanova,
Bhavya Trivedi,
Alexei Savchenko, and
Richard H. Kramer
Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology,
University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS AND METHODS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
FOOTNOTES
REFERENCES
ABSTRACT
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels in vertebrate photoreceptors
are crucial for transducing light-induced changes in cGMP concentration
into electrical signals. In this study, we show that both native and
exogenously expressed CNG channels from rods are modulated by tyrosine
phosphorylation. The cGMP sensitivity of CNG channels, composed of rod
-subunits expressed in Xenopus oocytes, gradually
increases after excision of inside-out patches from the oocyte
membrane. This increase in sensitivity is inhibited by a protein
tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) inhibitor and is unaffected by three
different Ser/Thr phosphatase inhibitors. Moreover, it is suppressed or
reversed by application of ATP but not by a nonhydrolyzable ATP analog.
Application of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) inhibitors causes an
increase in cGMP sensitivity, but only in the presence of ATP. Taken
together, these results suggest that CNG channels expressed in oocytes
are associated with active PTK(s) and PTP(s) that regulate their cGMP
sensitivity by changing phosphorylation state. The cGMP sensitivity of
native CNG channels from salamander rod outer segments also increases
and decreases after incubation with inhibitors of PTP(s) and PTK(s),
respectively. These results suggest that rod CNG channels are modulated
by tyrosine phosphorylation, which may function as a novel mechanism
for regulating the sensitivity of rods to light.
Key words:
cGMP;
rod outer segment;
photoreceptor;
phototransduction;
tyrosine;
protein kinase;
protein phosphatase;
phosphorylation
INTRODUCTION
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG)
channels are crucial for generating electrical signals during
phototransduction in vertebrate photoreceptors. Light triggers a
decrease in the cytoplasmic concentration of cGMP, causing CNG channels
in the plasma membrane to close. The sensitivity of CNG channels to
cGMP can be modulated by several intracellular constituents, with
important physiological consequences. Intracellular
Ca2+ causes a decrease in cGMP sensitivity of rod
CNG channels, mediated by direct binding of calmodulin and other
Ca2+-binding proteins to the CNG channel protein
(Hsu and Molday, 1993 ; Gordon et al., 1995a ; Nakatani et al., 1995 ).
The intracellular concentration of Ca2+ decreases in
the rod outer segment during the light response, leading to an increase
in the cGMP sensitivity of CNG channels, possibly contributing to light
adaptation. Rod CNG channels are also modulated by transition metals
(Zn2+ and Ni2+), which increase
cGMP sensitivity (Ildefonse et al., 1992 ; Karpen et al., 1993 ), and
diacylglycerol, which inhibits the channels (Gordon et al., 1995b ).
The cGMP sensitivity of rod CNG channels is also modulated by
protein phosphorylation. Gordon et al. (1992) showed that CNG channels
in inside-out patches from rod outer segments exhibit a gradual
increase in sensitivity after patch excision. This increase in cGMP
sensitivity is Ca2+-dependent and is blocked by
specific Ser/Thr phosphatase inhibitors. Exogenous applica-tion of
Ser/Thr phosphatases (phosphatases 1 and 2A) reinstates changes in cGMP
sensitivity after exposure to EGTA to remove Ca2+.
These results suggest that CNG channels, like many other ion channels,
are modulated by Ser/Thr phosphorylation.
Recent studies reveal that ion channels can also be modulated by
tyrosine phosphorylation (for review, see Siegelbaum, 1994 ). Protein
tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are
functionally associated with voltage-gated (Huang et al., 1993 ; Wilson
and Kaczmarek, 1993 ; Prevarskaya et al., 1995; Xiong and Cheung, 1995 ;
Holmes et al., 1996a ; Aniksztejn et al., 1997 ) and ligand-gated
channels (Swore and Huganir, 1993; Moss et al., 1995 ; Wang et al.,
1996 ). Receptor PTKs, such as prolactin (Prevarskaya et al., 1995) and
insulin (Jonas et al., 1996 ) receptors, regulate ion channel activity,
but constitutively active nonreceptor PTKs, such as v-Src, also have
profound effects on certain channels (Moss et al., 1995 ; Holmes et al.,
1996b ; Yu et al., 1997 ). Typical agonists that interact with receptor
PTKs and PTPs include polypeptide hormones and growth factors, which
affect slow processes such as cell differentiation and growth.
Modulation of channels by PTKs or PTPs can occur in seconds, suggesting
that ion channel regulation may be an early physiological event
occurring in response to growth factor activation of PTKs or PTPs.
In this paper, we show that tyrosine phosphorylation is a novel
mechanism for modulating rod CNG channels. Rod CNG channels expressed
in Xenopus oocytes are associated with active PTK(s) and
PTP(s), with phosphorylation or dephosphorylation, respectively, decreasing or increasing their cGMP sensitivity. Moreover, native CNG
channels in salamander rod outer segments are also modulated by PTKs
and PTPs intrinsic to the retina. We propose that modulation of CNG
channels by tyrosine phosphorylation is an important mechanism for
controlling the light sensitivity of rods.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Expression and recording from oocyte CNG channels. A
cDNA clone encoding the bovine rod photoreceptor CNG channel
-subunit (Kaupp et al., 1989 ) was used for in vitro
transcription of mRNA, as described previously (Goulding et al., 1992),
which was injected into Xenopus oocytes (50 nl/oocyte at 1 ng/nl). After 2-7 d, the vitelline membrane was removed from injected
oocytes, which were then placed in a chamber for patch-clamp recording
at 21-24°C. Glass patch pipettes (2-3 M ) were filled with a
solution containing 115 mM NaCl, 5 mM EGTA, and
10 mM HEPES, pH-adjusted to 7.5 with NaOH. This also served
as the standard bath solution and cGMP perfusion solution unless noted
otherwise. After formation of a gigaohm seal, inside-out patches were
excised and the patch pipette was quickly (<30 sec) placed in the
outlet of a 1-mm-diameter tube for cGMP application. We used a
perfusion manifold containing up to 15 different solutions that is
capable of solution changes within 100 msec. A series of four to five
cGMP concentrations (10-2000 µM cGMP) was applied to the
patch. Application of the series required 20-30 sec and was repeated
at 1 min intervals. ATP (Mg salt) was applied at 200 µM
and either was present in all solutions and applied continuously (e.g.,
see Figs. 6, 7) or was applied transiently for 3 min starting 10.5 min
after patch excision (e.g., see Figs. 4, 5). Phosphatase and kinase
inhibitors were prepared as concentrated stock solutions in water or
DMSO, and aqueous solutions containing the final concentrations were prepared for use as needed. The final concentration of DMSO did not
exceed 0.1%, which had no effect on CNG channels or their modulation.
Sodium pervanadate was prepared as described previously (Wallace,
1995 ). cGMP, ATP, AMP-PNP, and ATP- -S, microcystin-LR, and
staurosporine were obtained from Sigma (St. Louis, MO), K252a was
obtained from Calbiochem (La Jolla, CA), and okadaic acid, calyculin A,
lavendustin A and B, and erbstatin (stable analog) were obtained from
LC Laboratories (Woburn, MA).
Fig. 6.
Effects of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on CNG
channel modulation in oocytes. A, Effect of 10 µM lavendustin A (Lav A).
B, Effect of 25 µM erbstatin
(Erb) analog on the K1/2 for
cGMP activation, both in the presence of continuously applied
ATP (200 µM). C, Lack of an
effect of lavendustin A. D, Lack of an effect of
erbstatin analog, both in the absence of ATP (n = 5-7 patches for each condition).
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Fig. 7.
Effects of Ser/Thr kinases inhibitors on CNG
channel modulation in oocytes. A, Application of
staurosporine (100 nM; n = 7). B, Application of K252a (500 nM;
n = 11). Both inhibitors were used in the presence
of continuously applied ATP (200 µM).
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Fig. 4.
Effects of continuous exposure to Ser/Thr
phosphatase inhibitors on the change in K1/2
in oocyte patches. A, Effect of 250 nM
okadaic acid (n = 7). B, Effect of
10 nM calyculin (n = 6). C, Effect of 500 nM microcystin-LR
(n = 6). Changes in K1/2
for each inhibitor (filled circles) are plotted
along with changes in K1/2 in control
solution (open circles; n = 6). All
data are normalized to the initial K1/2
(t = 1 min).
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Fig. 5.
Effects of the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor
vanadate on modulation of CNG channels from oocytes. A,
Effect of continuous exposure to 200 µM orthovanadate
(open circles; n = 11), 100 µM pervanadate (open squares;
n = 5), or neither (filled
triangles; n = 34) on changes in
K1/2 after patch excision and ATP exposure. B, Effect of pretreatment of intact oocytes (1 hr) with
control saline, 200 µM orthovanadate, or 100 µM pervanadate on the initial K1/2 measured 1 min after patch excision
(n = 47, 16, and 7, respectively).
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Current responses through CNG channels were obtained with an Axopatch
200A patch clamp (Axon Instruments, Foster City, CA), digitized,
stored, and later analyzed on a 486 PC using pClamp 6.0 software.
Membrane potential was held at 75 mV in all experiments. Current
responses were normalized to the maximal CNG current
(Imax), which was elicited by saturating
cGMP (2 mM). Normalized dose-response curves were fit to
the Hill equation: I/Imax = 1/(1 + (K1/2/A)n),
where A is the cGMP concentration and n is the
Hill coefficient, using a nonlinear least-squares fitting routine
(Origin, Microcal Software). Changes in cGMP sensitivity in the
presence of drugs were plotted together with matched control results
from the same batches of oocytes (i.e., see Figs. 3, 4, 5). Variability
among measurements is expressed as mean ± SEM.
Fig. 3.
The effects of ATP and its analogs on the time
course of the changes of K1/2.
A, Changes in K1/2 after
patch excision and application of ATP (A1),
AMP-PNP (A2), and ATP- -S
(A3). Each was applied at a concentration of 200 µM for 3 min. For each patch, K1/2 data were normalized to the value
generated from the first dose-response curve after excision (1 min).
Symbols represent mean ± SEM for all patches tested
(n = 34, 13, and 16 patches for
A1, A2, and
A3, respectively). Horizontal
bars on this and subsequent figures show time of drug
application. B, Changes in K1/2 in patches with (open
circles; n = 20 patches) and without (filled squares; n = 58 patches) continual exposure to 200 µM ATP from the moment
of excision.
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Recording from CNG channels from rod outer segments.
Water-phase tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigranum)
maintained in a temperature-controlled aquarium (16°C) on a 12 hr
light/dark cycle were used in all experiments at the same time of day.
Animals were dark-adapted for 1 hr and anesthetized in an ice-cold
solution containing 1 gm/l 2-amino benzoic acid for 20 min before
decapitation and removal of eyes under dim red light. Eyes were placed
in saline containing (in mM): 155 NaCl, 2.5 KCl, 1 CaCl2, 2 MgCl2, 10 glucose, and
10 HEPES, pH 7.5. A fine Hamilton syringe was used to inject 50 µl of
control saline, saline containing 200 µM lavendustin A or
B, or saline containing 100 µM Na-pervanadate. After a 2 hr incubation in the dark, retinas were removed under dim illumination
and placed in 1 ml of the same saline used for injection for an
additional 2 hr in the dark. Finally, after a total of 4 hr of
treatment, the retinas were cut into quarters and gently triturated to
obtain rod outer segments, which were placed in a recording chamber in the same solution used for eye injection. Borosilicate glass pipettes (3-5 M ) were filled with standard patch solution (see oocyte section above) and were used to obtain excised inside-out patches from
the outer segment. The standard patch solution containing four to five
concentrations of cGMP (2-1000 µM) was applied to excised patches immediately (0.5-1.0 min) after excision.
RESULTS
This study started with the observation that rod CNG channels in
excised patches from Xenopus oocytes gradually increase
their sensitivity to cGMP after a patch is excised from the cell.
Homomeric CNG channels were expressed in oocytes by injecting mRNA
encoding the -subunit of the bovine rod CNG channel (Kaupp et al.,
1991). The native rod CNG channel is heteromeric, containing both - and -subunits (Chen et al., 1993 ; Koerschen et al., 1995 ), but expression of -subunits alone is sufficient for formation of functional CNG channels. Although these homomeric channels have somewhat different kinetic and pharmacological properties than the
native channels, they exhibit many similarities, including similar
conductance and permeation properties, cyclic nucleotide selectivity,
and modulatability by transition metals (for review, see Zagotta and
Siegelbaum, 1996).
After obtaining an excised patch containing homomeric CNG channels,
various concentrations (10-2000 µM) of cGMP were
applied repeatedly at 1-2 min intervals. Figures
1 and 2
show changes in cGMP sensitivity of CNG channels from one
representative patch. Current responses to subsaturating cGMP
concentrations (e.g., 10-250 µM) increased during the
first 10 min after excision, whereas the response to saturating cGMP
(2000 µM cGMP) did not change (Fig.
1A,B). After 10 min, the
cytoplasmic side of the patch was exposed to 200 µM ATP
for 3 min. Then the ATP was washed away and cGMP responses were
elicited again. The transient exposure to ATP led to a decrease in the
response to subsaturating cGMP concentrations without affecting the
saturating response (Fig. 1C).
Fig. 1.
Modulation of current through CNG channels in an
excised patch from a Xenopus oocyte. Currents were
elicited by application of cGMP at concentrations of 50, 100, 250, and
2000 µM 1 and 10 min after excision, and after a 3 min
application of 200 µM ATP (13.5 min after
excision).
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Fig. 2.
Change in cGMP sensitivity of CNG channels in an
excised patch from an oocyte. A, Dose-response curves
of CNG channel activation by cGMP, with data taken from Figure 1.
Solid curves show the fit to the Hill equation.
B, Changes in K1/2,
but not the Hill coefficient or maximal current, with time after patch
excision and after ATP application. This figure shows an analysis of
dose-response data from a single patch collected at 1 min
intervals.
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Dose-response curves show that less cGMP is required to activate the
CNG channels 10 min after patch excision than 1 min after excision,
whereas the maximal current does not change (Fig.
2A). Transient ATP application leads to an opposite
change, decreasing the cGMP sensitivity. To analyze these effects
further, each of the repeated dose-response curves was fit with the
Hill equation, and the free parameters
(K1/2, Hill coefficient, and maximal
current) were plotted over time. Figure 2B shows that
the Hill coefficient and the maximal current did not change with time
and were unaffected by ATP. However, the K1/2
decreased from 119 to 54 µM over the first 10 min and
then stabilized, exhibiting no further spontaneous changes. However,
transient application of ATP caused the
K1/2, measured immediately after ATP
exposure, to increase to 85 µM. Subsequently, the
K1/2 again decreased to 55 µM with
a time constant ( ) of 1.7 min, similar to that observed for the
decrease in K1/2 after excision ( = 1.9 min).
This suggests that the same process underlying the initial decrease in
K1/2 also underlies the decrease in
K1/2 after ATP exposure.
To investigate whether ATP is used as a substrate in a
phosphorylation reaction, we compared its effects with those of two ATP
analogs that differ from ATP in their ability to phosphorylate proteins. Data from multiple patches were normalized such that the
K1/2 of the first dose-response curve after
excision (1 min) was set to 1.0. Whereas transient application of ATP
increased the K1/2 by ~37% (Fig.
3A1), application
of the nonhydrolyzable ATP analog adenylyl-imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP)
had no effect (Fig. 3A2). Application of
ATP- -S (adenosine-5 -O-(3 -thiotriphosphate) elicited a
smaller increase in K1/2 than did ATP (~27%),
but its effect appeared to be irreversible (Fig.
3A3). ATP- -S is a poor substrate for many
protein kinases. However, most protein phosphatases cannot
dephosphorylate thio-phosphorylated proteins; thus ATP- -S often
results in irreversible responses caused by irreversible phosphorylation (Cassidy et al., 1979 ; Chen et al., 1992 ; Xiong and
Cheung, 1995 ).
We also examined the effect of continuous application of ATP from the
moment the patch was excised (Fig. 3B). Continuous exposure to ATP greatly reduced the spontaneous change in
K1/2, such that 10 min after excision the
K1/2 was 88% of the initial
K1/2 compared with control patches (ATP-free),
in which the K1/2 dropped to 52% after 10 min.
Taken together with our ATP analog experiments, these results suggest
that ATP is a substrate in a phosphorylation reaction that opposes or
reverses the spontaneous decrease in K1/2.
We propose that the following scenario accounts for the changes in
sensitivity of CNG in oocyte patches. The cGMP sensitivity of CNG
channels (or a closely associated regulator protein) is modulated by
phosphorylation, with cGMP sensitivity being low in the
phosphorylated state and high in the dephosphorylated state. The oocyte
patch contains active protein phosphatase(s) and protein kinase(s) that
remain associated with the membrane after patch excision. In the
absence of ATP, the kinase cannot catalyze phosphorylation; thus, the
phosphatase dephosphorylates the channels within 10 min after excising
the patch, increasing cGMP sensitivity. In the presence of ATP, both
the kinase and the phosphatase are active, more closely maintaining the
initial phosphorylation state. Thus, in the presence of ATP, the
sensitivity of the CNG channels reflects a balance between
phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, similar to the situation in the
intact cell. In the following experiments, we use phosphatase and
kinase inhibitors to test this hypothesis.
Effects of phosphatase inhibitors
To determine whether Ser/Thr dephosphorylation is involved in the
increase in CNG channel sensitivity in oocyte patches, we applied
three selective inhibitors of Ser/Thr phosphatases: okadaic acid,
calyculin A, and microcystin-LR (Cohen, 1989 ; MacKintosh et al., 1990 ).
Figure 4 shows that, for all three
inhibitors, the decrease in K1/2 exhibited
during the first 10 min after excision was not significantly different
from the decrease that occurs in control patches without the
inhibitors. These results strongly suggest that Ser/Thr
dephosphorylation does not underlie the modulation of CNG channels in
oocyte patches.
We next asked whether inhibitors selective for tyrosine phosphatases
could inhibit the decrease in K1/2.
Orthovanadate (Swarup et al., 1982 ) and pervanadate (Heffetz et al.,
1990 ; Wallace, 1995 ) selectively inhibit tyrosine phosphatases without
affecting Ser/Thr-specific phosphatases (Hunter, 1995 ). Incubation of
patches in solutions containing either form of vanadate reduced the
spontaneous decrease in K1/2 (Fig.
5A). In control solution, the
K1/2 declined by 48% in the fist 10 min; in
solutions with vanadate, the decrease in K1/2
was only 22%. The rise in K1/2 brought about by
ATP was unaffected by vanadate. However, the subsequent decrease in
K1/2 after ATP exposure, like the initial
decrease in K1/2 after patch excision, was
reduced by both orthovanadate and pervanadate. These results suggest
that, in both cases, most of the decrease in
K1/2 was attributable to the action of a
tyrosine phosphatase. The incomplete inhibitory effect of vanadate on
the change in cGMP sensitivity may result from incomplete inhibition of
tyrosine phosphatase by saturating vanadate, as has been reported in
enzyme assays performed in cell-free systems (Swarup et al., 1982 ).
To test whether such a phosphatase might regulate the sensitivity of
CNG channels to cGMP in intact oocytes, cells were pretreated with 100 µM pervanadate, which is membrane-permeant, for 1 hr before obtaining an excised patch (Fig. 5B). Patches from
pervanadate-treated oocytes had an initial K1/2
(measured at 1 min after excision) of 184 ± 18 µM,
significantly higher than that exhibited by untreated oocytes (117 ± 6 µM). Pretreatment with orthovanadate, which is not
membrane-permeant, caused a small but significant increase in
K1/2 to 134 ± 6 µM. However,
this may result from the effect of orthovanadate during the first
minute after excision, before the initial K1/2
could be measured.
Effects of kinase inhibitors
To test whether the effect of ATP on the cGMP sensitivity of CNG
channels is attributable to phosphorylation, we first used selective
inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinases. Figure
6, A and B, shows
the effects of lavendustin A (Onoda et al., 1989 ) and erbstatin
(Umezawa et al., 1990 ) on CNG channels in patches that were exposed
continuously to ATP. Addition of either inhibitor resulted in a
striking decrease in K1/2, which partly
reversed after the inhibitor was removed. In contrast, lavendustin A
and erbstatin had no effect when the inhibitors were applied to patches in the absence of ATP (Fig. 6C,D). The
observation that lavendustin A and erbstatin only affect
K1/2 in the presence of ATP suggests that these
agents act specifically by inhibiting a protein kinase.
We also tested whether inhibitors of Ser/Thr kinase inhibitors affect
the sensitivity of CNG channels to cGMP. Staurosporine, an inhibitor of
several Ser/Thr kinases including protein kinase C and cAMP-dependent
protein kinase (Ruegg and Burgess, 1989 ), had no effect on the
K1/2 in the presence of ATP (Fig.
7A). Likewise, K252a, a
broad-spectrum Ser/Thr kinase inhibitor (Ruegg and Burgess, 1989 ) that
also blocks some tyrosine kinases (Tapley et al., 1992 ), also had no
effect on K1/2 in the presence of ATP (Fig.
7B). Taken together with the effect of lavendustin A and
erbstatin, these results strongly suggest that the effect of ATP on
CNG-channel cGMP sensitivity is mediated by a PTK that is resistant to
K252a.
Experiments on native rod CNG channels
Our experiments on rod CNG channels expressed in oocytes show that
PTKs and PTPs in the oocyte membrane can modulate the channels. Are
native CNG channels in rod outer segments also modulated by tyrosine
phosphorylation? Unlike our findings with oocytes, spontaneous increases in cGMP affinity in CNG channels from rod outer segments fail
to occur in very low-Ca2+ solutions
(<10 7 M) (Gordon et al., 1992 ). A
distinct form of modulation, which is Ca2+-dependent
and involves Ser/Thr dephosphorylation, occurs within minutes after
patches are excised from rods. If tyrosine phosphorylation also
modulates the native rod CNG channels, the enzymes that control tyrosine phosphorylation state might act over a much slower time course, or they may be inactive in excised patches.
Therefore, to examine the possible effect of tyrosine phosphorylation
of the native CNG channels, we applied tyrosine kinase or phosphatase
inhibitors to intact rods for a longer time (3.5-4.0 hr). Eyes
dissected from tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigranum) were
injected with 50 µl of a solution containing lavendustin A,
lavendustin B (an inactive analog), pervanadate, or control saline.
After 2 hr, retinas were removed and incubated for an additional 2 hr
in the same solutions. Then outer segments were isolated and
patch-clamp experiments were begun to obtain inside-out patches. Figure
8 shows the initial
K1/2 (1 min after excision) of CNG channels from
each group of rods. Patches from lavendustin A-treated rods had CNG
channels with a K1/2 of 14 ± 1 µM, whereas patches from pervanadate-treated rods had CNG
channels with a K1/2 of 32 ± 2 µM, both significantly different
(p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, respectively) than patches from control rods
(K1/2 = 23 ± 2 µM). The
K1/2 of channels from lavendustin B-treated rods was 23 ± 1 µM, not significantly different from
control.
Fig. 8.
Effects of PTK and PTP inhibitors on native CNG
channels. K1/2 of cGMP activation was
measured 1 min after excision of patches from rod outer segments from
tiger salamander retina. Rods were exposed to control saline
(n = 5), 100 µM pervanadate
(n = 7), 10 µM lavendustin A
(n = 7), or 10 µM lavendustin B
(n = 4) for 3.5-4.0 hr before patch excision. cGMP
test solutions were with or without added IBMX (100 µM)
as indicated (n = 4 patches for each).
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Patches excised from rod outer segments can retain elements of the
phototransduction cascade, including rhodopsin, transducin, and cGMP
phosphodiesterase (PDE) (Ertel, 1989). The apparent affinity of CNG
channels in these patches can be underestimated because active PDE can
reduce the concentration of cGMP reaching the channels (R. Kramer and
S. Nawy, unpublished observations). To rule out the possibility that
modulation of PDE activity, rather than modulation of CNG
channels, underlies differences in the apparent affinity of rod CNG
channels exposed to lavendustin A or pervanadate, the initial
K1/2 was measured in some experiments in the
presence of 100 µM isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX), which
blocks PDE. Even with IBMX present, the lavendustin A-treated rods had
CNG channels that were twice as sensitive to cGMP
(K1/2 = 16 ± 2 µM) than CNG channels from pervanadate-treated rods (K1/2 = 37 ± 5 µM).
Thus, it appears that enhancing dephosphorylation by inhibiting
tyrosine kinase results in channels with a high sensitivity to cGMP,
whereas enhancing phosphorylation by inhibiting tyrosine phosphatase
results in channels with a low sensitivity to cGMP. It should be noted
that the magnitude and the direction of the change in apparent affinity
brought about by phosphorylation are similar for CNG channels from rods
and from oocytes; tyrosine phosphorylation results in an approximately
twofold decrease in cGMP sensitivity.
DISCUSSION
Our results suggest that the cGMP sensitivity of rod CNG channels
expressed in Xenopus oocytes is modulated by active PTKs and
PTPs that remain associated with the channels in excised patches for
many minutes after excision. The modulation of CNG channels may involve
direct tyrosine phosphorylation of the channel protein(s), or it may be
indirect, with tyrosine phosphorylation occurring on unidentified
proteins that may be closely associated with CNG channels. Although
this remains a possibility, there is a growing body of
electrophysiological and biochemical evidence that suggests that
signaling complexes containing closely associated kinases, phosphatases, and channels are common for many channels in many cell
types (see Reinhart and Levitan, 1995 ). Moreover, PTKs and PTPs,
specifically, have been shown to form functional complexes with many
channels including Ca2+-activated
K+ channels (Pevarskaya et al., 1995; Xiong and
Cheung, 1995 ), voltage-gated K+ channels (Holmes et
al., 1996a ,b ), and nonselective cation channels (Wilson and Kaczmarek,
1993 ; Aniksztejn et al., 1997 ). Indeed, several channels, including
nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (Swope and Huganir, 1994 ; Fuhrer and
Hall, 1996 ) and certain voltage-gated K+ channels
(Holmes et al., 1996b ), contain specialized amino acid sequences that
bind to Src homology domains SH2 or SH3, characteristic sequences found
in many PTKs and PTPs.
Do CNG channels contain specific sequences that mediate interactions
with PTPs or PTKs? Recent studies of a specific K+
channel (Kv1.5) have shown that it contains a proline-rich consensus sequence that mediates association with SH3 domains in the PTK v-Src
(Holmes et al., 1996b ). Prolines are rare in the -subunit of the rod
CNG channel (Kaupp et al., 1987), and the SH3 binding domain is
missing. Therefore, if the -subunit of the rod CNG channel is itself
tyrosine-phosphorylated, PTKs distinct from v-Src are probably
responsible. However, it is interesting to note that the -subunit of
the rod CNG channel (Koerschen et al., 1995 ) does contain several
proline-rich regions in predicted cytoplasmic portions of the
protein, and one of these bears a striking resemblance to the SH3
binding domain. Thus, it is possible that SH3 binding domains in native
CNG channels are important for mediating interactions with PTKs or
PTPs, perhaps including v-Src.
Our results show that transient ATP application only partially reverses
the increase in cGMP sensitivity after excision of patches from oocytes
(Fig. 3A1) and that continuous ATP application only partially suppresses the increase in sensitivity (Fig.
3B). In addition, the cGMP sensitivity of CNG channels
treated with tyrosine kinases inhibitors only partially recovers after
these inhibitors are removed, even though ATP is present (Fig.
6A,B). We propose that the
following scenario accounts for the observed partial effects of ATP:
After excision, the rate of phosphorylation is slower than that of
dephosphorylation, such that a new equilibrium is reached, with a net
decrease in phosphorylation, even in the presence of ATP. The change in
phosphorylation/dephosphorylation rates after excision could result
from wash-out, either of some regulatory factor of either the kinase or
the phosphatase,or wash-out of the kinase itself. Because the kinase
cannot keep up with the phosphatase, addition of ATP cannot restore the
original sensitivity of the channel.
Modulation of native rod CNG channels is more complex than
modulation of the expressed homomeric channels, with both Ser/Thr phosphorylation and tyrosine phosphorylation decreasing the sensitivity to cGMP. Ca2+-dependent Ser/Thr phosphatases
increase the cGMP sensitivity of rod CNG channels in excised patches
(Gordon et al., 1992 ), suggesting that these enzymes are active and
have a sufficiently high enzymatic rate to dephosphorylate the channels
within minutes after excision. Although our evidence establishes a role
for regulation of rod channels by tyrosine phosphorylation, spontaneous
changes in CNG channel sensitivity are not detected in excised rod
patches in the presence of Ser/Thr phosphatase inhibitors (Gordon et
al., 1992 ), and ATP application has no effect (our unpublished
observations). This suggests that modulation by tyrosine
phosphorylation either requires activators (intracellular or
extracellular) that are not present in the excised patch or is too slow
to be observed within the typical lifetime of an excised patch (tens of
minutes). In these respects, the PTKs and PTPs in oocytes may be
different from those in rods, because the oocyte enzymes act rapidly
and do not require exogenous activators. It is possible that, although the specific PTPs and PTKs responsible for modulation may act over
different time courses in oocytes and rods, both sets of enzymes may
act on common phosphorylation sites to bring about an equivalent
modulation of CNG channels. It should be noted that native rod patches
may contain protein constituents that are absent from oocyte patches,
including auxiliary subunits of CNG channels, adapter proteins, and
cytoskeletal proteins. These proteins may add additional targets for
tyrosine phosphorylation, which could influence the native CNG channels
in an indirect manner.
The rate of decrease in K1/2 is accelerated when
the channels are opened with cGMP. In addition, the decrease in cGMP
sensitivity after ATP application can be prevented by opening the
channels with saturating cGMP (E. Molokanova and R. H. Kramer,
unpublished observations). Therefore, modulation mediated by
phosphorylation/dephosphorylation is dependent on the open/closed state
of the channel, strongly implying that modulation involves
phosphorylation of the CNG channel itself. In particular, these
observations suggest that either cGMP occupancy of its binding sites or
the conformational change associated with channel opening (or both)
alters the accessibility of the tyrosine phosphorylation site(s) to
PTKs and PTPs. The conserved cyclic nucleotide binding domain of the
-subunit contains six tyrosines, and there are nine more in putative
cytoplasmic domains. Ongoing experiments are aimed at determining
whether the CNG channel itself is tyrosine-phosphorylated and, if so, identifying the specific tyrosine residues that underlie the modulation of cGMP sensitivity.
The PTPs and PTKs that regulate rod CNG channels may be active
independent of extracellular ligands (such as v-Src), or they may be
receptor-activated. Rod outer segments contain several types of growth
factor receptors that exhibit PTK activity in the presence of the
appropriate ligands. Most notably, receptors for insulin-like growth
factor-1 (IGF-1) are found in high density in rod outer segments and
can elicit tyrosine phosphorylation of the G-protein transducin (Zick
et al., 1987 ), suggesting that IGF-1 can influence phototransduction.
IGF-1 is synthesized and released by retinal pigment epithelial cells
(Waldbillig et al., 1991 ), which are crucial for regulating
photoreceptor function. Other receptor PTKs also exist on rod outer
segments (Mascarelli et al., 1989 ), but it remains to be determined
which, if any, are involved in modulating the sensitivity of CNG
channels.
In conclusion, we have shown that the sensitivity of rod CNG channels
to cGMP is modulated by tyrosine phosphorylation. Our results raise
many intriguing questions about the site of tyrosine phosphorylation,
the intracellular and extracellular signals that regulate PTKs and PTPs
in rods, and the impact of tyrosine phosphorylation on the light
response. Thus, despite having achieved a detailed and advanced
understanding of the complexity of phototransduction, our results
demonstrate that new levels of biochemical modulation of the signaling
cascade continue to be discovered.
FOOTNOTES
Received July 8, 1997; revised Sept. 19, 1997; accepted Sept. 23, 1997.
This work was supported by grants from National Institutes of Health
(NS 30695) and the American Heart Association, Florida Affiliate
(9502002) to R.H.K. B.T. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Predoctoral Fellow. We thank Dr. Scott Nawy for advice and comments on
this manuscript.
Correspondence should be addresses to Dr. Richard H. Kramer, P.O. Box
016189, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
33101.
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Functional Regulation of gamma -Aminobutyric Acid Transporters by Direct Tyrosine Phosphorylation
J. Biol. Chem.,
July 28, 2000;
275(31):
23986 - 23991.
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A. Savchenko, T. W. Kraft, E. Molokanova, and R. H. Kramer
Growth factors regulate phototransduction in retinal rods by modulating cyclic nucleotide-gated channels through dephosphorylation of a specific tyrosine residue
PNAS,
May 8, 2001;
98(10):
5880 - 5885.
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