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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 15, 2002, 22(20):8902-8910
Relationship between Availability of NMDA Receptor Subunits and
Their Expression at the Synapse
Kate
Prybylowski1,
Zhanyan
Fu2,
Gabriele
Losi2,
Lynda M.
Hawkins1,
JianHong
Luo2,
Kai
Chang1,
Robert J.
Wenthold1, and
Stefano
Vicini2
1 Laboratory of Neurochemistry, National Institute on
Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and 2 Department of
Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center,
Washington, DC 20057
The effect of increasing the expression of NMDA subunits in
cerebellar granule cells (CGCs) by transfection was studied to determine how the availability of various NMDA subunits controls both
the total pool of functional receptors and the synaptic pool. Overexpression of either NR2A or NR2B, but not splice variants of NR1,
by transfection caused a significant increase in the total number of
functional NMDA receptors and in surface NR1 subunit cluster density in
CGCs in primary culture. These data solidify the central role of NR2
subunit availability in determining the number of cell surface
receptors. Overexpression of either NR2A or NR2B significantly altered
the deactivation kinetics of NMDA-mediated miniature EPSCs
(NMDA-mEPSCs). However, there was no significant effect of NR2 subunit
overexpression on the mEPSC amplitude or single-channel conductance.
NR2 subunit overexpression did not change the rate of block by MK-801
of NMDA-mediated currents in excised patches from CGCs, indicating that
subunit composition does not regulate peak open probability of the
channel in CGCs. With the overexpression of a mutant of NR2B lacking
the PDZ binding domain, there was an increase in the total number of
NMDA receptors without a change in mEPSC kinetics. Therefore, the entry
of NMDA receptors into the synapse requires a PDZ binding domain and is limited by means other than receptor subunit availability.
Key words:
cerebellar granule cells; ifenprodil sensitivity; NMDA-mEPSCs; peak open probability; PDZ binding domain; receptor
targeting
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/22208902-09$05.00/0
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