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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 15, 2995-3012, Copyright © 1995 by Society for Neuroscience
Pharmacological dissection of multiple types of Ca2+ channel currents in rat cerebellar granule neurons
A Randall and RW Tsien
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Beckman Center, Stanford University Medical Center, California 94305, USA.
The diversity of Ca2+ channel types in rat cerebellar granule neurons was
investigated with whole-cell recordings (5 mM external Ba2+). Contributions
of five different high-voltage-activated Ca2+ channel current components
were distinguished pharmacologically. Nimodipine- sensitive L-type current
and omega-CTx-GVIA-sensitive N-type current contributed 15 and 20% of the
total current, respectively. The bulk of the remaining current (46%) was
inhibited by omega-Aga-IVA. The current blocked by this toxin was further
subdivided into two components, P- type and Q-type, on the basis of
differences in their inactivation kinetics and sensitivity to
omega-Aga-IVA. P-Type current was noninactivating during 0.1 sec
depolarizations, half-blocked at about 1- 3 nM omega-Aga-IVA, and
contributed approximately 11% of the total current; Q-type current was
prominently inactivating, half-blocked at approximately 90 nM
omega-Aga-IVA, and comprised 35% of the total current. Both P- and Q-type
currents were potently inhibited by the Conus magus toxin omega-CTx-MVIIC.
A current component resistant to all of the aforementioned blockers
(R-type) displayed more rapid inactivation than the other components and
constituted 19% of the total current. The Q-type current, the largest of
the current components in the granule neurons, resembles currents that can
be generated in Xenopus oocytes by expression of cloned alpha 1A subunits.
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