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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 1, 1999, 19(3):1006-1017
Characterization of G-Protein-Gated K+ Channels
Composed of Kir3.2 Subunits in Dopaminergic Neurons of the Substantia
Nigra
Atsushi
Inanobe1,
Yukiko
Yoshimoto1,
Yoshiyuki
Horio1,
Ken-Ichiro
Morishige1, 2,
Hiroshi
Hibino1,
Shigeto
Matsumoto1,
Yoshimitsu
Tokunaga4,
Toshihiro
Maeda4,
Yutaka
Hata5,
Yoshimi
Takai3, 5, and
Yoshihisa
Kurachi1
Departments of 1 Pharmacology II,
2 Gynecology and Obstetrics, and 3 Molecular
Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of
Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan,
4 Department of Anatomy, Shiga University of Medical
Science, Shiga 520-21, Japan, and 5 Takai Biotimer
Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Japan Science
and Technology Corporation, Kobe 651-22, Japan
G-protein-gated K+ (KG)
channels generate slow inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in the brain.
Current opinion suggests that neuronal KG channels are
heterotetramers of Kir3.1 and Kir3.2. In substantia nigra (SN),
however, mRNA of Kir3.1 does not express, whereas that of Kir3.2
clearly does. Therefore, we have characterized the KG
channels containing Kir3.2 subunits in SN using biochemical and
immunological techniques. We found that they were composed of only
Kir3.2 subunits and did not contain significant amounts of either
Kir3.1 or Kir3.3. Furthermore, at least some of the KG
channels in SN were assemblies of the splicing variants Kir3.2a and
Kir3.2c. The channels were localized specifically at the postsynaptic membrane on the dendrites of dopaminergic neurons. Kir3.2c, but not
Kir3.2a, could bind a PDZ domain-containing protein, PSD-95. The
heterologously expressed KG channels composed of Kir3.2a
plus Kir3.2c or Kir3.2a alone were activated by G-protein stimulation, but expression of Kir3.2c alone was not. This study reveals that the
Kir3.2 splicing variants play distinct roles in the control of function
and localization of some of the KG channels in dopaminergic neurons of SN.
Key words:
substantia nigra; G-protein; inwardly rectifying
potassium channel; dopamine; immunohistochemistry; dendrite; postsynaptic density
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/1931006-12$05.00/0
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