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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 15, 2000, 20(20):7657-7663
Evidence That Different Cation Chloride Cotransporters in Retinal
Neurons Allow Opposite Responses to GABA
Noga
Vardi1,
Ling-Li
Zhang1,
John A.
Payne2, and
Peter
Sterling1
1 University of Pennsylvania, Department of
Neuroscience, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, and
2 University of California, Department of Human Physiology,
Davis, California 95616
GABA gating an anion channel primarily permeable to chloride can
hyperpolarize or depolarize, depending on whether the chloride equilibrium potential (ECl) is negative or positive,
respectively, to the resting membrane potential
(Erest). If the transmembrane Cl gradient is set by active transport, those
neurons or neuronal regions that exhibit opposite responses to GABA
should express different chloride transporters. To test this, we
immunostained retina for the K-Cl cotransporter (KCC2) that normally
extrudes chloride and for the Na-K-Cl cotransporter (NKCC) that
normally accumulates chloride. KCC2 was expressed wherever
ECl is either known or predicted to be negative to
Erest (ganglion cells, bipolar axons, and OFF bipolar
dendrites), whereas NKCC was expressed wherever ECl is
either known or predicted to be positive to Erest (horizontal cells and ON bipolar dendrites). Thus, in the retina, the
opposite effects of GABA on different cell types and on
different cellular regions are probably primarily determined by the
differential targeting of these two chloride transporters.
Key words:
GABA depolarization; receptive field; ECl; KCC; NKCC; retinal bipolar cells; horizontal
cells
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