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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 2000, 20(6):2166-2174
Regulation of Kinetic Properties of GluR2 AMPA Receptor Channels
by Alternative Splicing
Maki
Koike1, 2,
Shota
Tsukada1,
Keisuke
Tsuzuki1, 2,
Hiromasa
Kijima3, and
Seiji
Ozawa1, 2
1 Department of Physiology, Gunma University School of
Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan, 2 Core Research
for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology
Corporation, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan, and
3 Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya
University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
The four subunits of the AMPA-type glutamate receptor
(GluR1-GluR4 or GluR-A-GluR-D) exist in two distinct forms, flip and flop, generated by alternative splicing of a 115 bp region. The GluR2
subunit plays a key role in determining the functional properties of
the AMPA receptor channel. In this study, we examined the
differences in kinetic properties between the flip and flop splice
variants of the GluR2 subunit expressed in Xenopus
oocytes using fast agonist application techniques. Glutamate was
applied to outside-out patches from oocytes with piezo-driven
double-barreled application pipettes. Because homomeric receptor
channels composed of the edited form of GluR2 (GluR2R) produce no
appreciable current responses, we expressed the unedited form of GluR2
(GluR2Q) in oocytes, which produced large current responses sufficient
for analysis of the kinetic properties. The time constant for
desensitization during application of 1 mM glutamate was
5.89 ± 0.17 msec (n = 50) in flip and
1.18 ± 0.05 msec (n = 37) in flop. The
deactivation time constant was 0.62 ± 0.06 msec
(n = 10) in flip and 0.54 ± 0.05 msec
(n = 10) in flop. The steady-state nondesensitizing
current was 6.8 ± 0.4% (n = 53) of the peak
current in flip, whereas it was almost negligible in flop, being only
1.1 ± 0.1% (n = 36). The slower
desensitization kinetics and larger steady-state current responses in
the flip variant were also observed in heteromeric receptors assembled
from GluR2Q/GluR2R. Thus, desensitization occurred much more
prominently in the flop variant in the recombinant GluR2 receptor channels.
Key words:
AMPA receptor channel; GluR2; flip/flop splice variants; Q/R site; desensitization; deactivation
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/00/2062166-09$05.00/0
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