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Volume 17, Number 6,
Issue of March 15, 1997
pp. 1993-2005
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Functional Expression of the Heteromeric "Olfactory" Cyclic
Nucleotide-Gated Channel in the Hippocampus: A Potential Effector of
Synaptic Plasticity in Brain Neurons
Received Nov. 11, 1996; revised Dec. 23, 1996; accepted Dec. 30, 1996.
Jonathan Bradley1, ,
Yinong Zhang1, ,
Robert Bakin2,
Henry A. Lester1,
Gabriele V. Ronnett2, 3, and
Kai Zinn1
1 Division of Biology, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, and Departments of
2 Neuroscience and 3 Neurology, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (cng) channels are important components of
signaling systems mediating sensory transduction. In vertebrate photoreceptors, light activates a signaling cascade that causes a
decrease in intracellular cGMP concentrations, closing retinal cng
channels. Signal transduction in olfactory receptor neurons is believed
to proceed via G-protein-mediated elevation of intracellular cAMP in
response to odorant binding by 7-helix receptors. cAMP opens the
olfactory cng channel, which is highly permeable to Ca2+.
Here we demonstrate by in situ hybridization and
immunohistochemistry with subunit-specific antibodies that both
subunits of the heteromeric rat olfactory cng channel are also widely
expressed in the brain. Expression of the retinal rod cng channel,
however, can be detected only in the eye. In the adult hippocampus, the
olfactory cng channel is expressed on cell bodies and processes of CA1
and CA3 neurons. In cultured embryonic hippocampal neurons, the channel
is localized to a subset of growth cones and processes. We recorded
conductances with the electrophysiological characteristics of the
heteromeric olfactory cng channel in excised inside-out patches from
these cultured neurons. We also show that Ca2+ influx into
hippocampal neurons in response to cyclic nucleotide elevation can be
detected using fura-2 imaging. Cyclic nucleotide elevation has been
implicated in several mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the
hippocampus, and these mechanisms also require elevation of
intracellular Ca2+. Our results suggest that the
"olfactory" cng channel could regulate synaptic efficacy in brain
neurons by modulating Ca2+ levels in response to changes in
cyclic nucleotide concentrations.
Key words:
cyclic nucleotide-gated channels;
cAMP;
cGMP;
olfaction;
sensory transduction;
hippocampus;
synaptic plasticity
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