GABAA receptor subunit alteration-dependent diazepam insensitivity in the cerebellum of phospholipase C-related inactive protein knockout mice
GABAA receptor subunit alteration-dependent diazepam insensitivity in the cerebellum of phospholipase C-related inactive protein knockout mice
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.06754.x
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发表时间:
2010-07-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Hirata, Masato
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作者:
Mizokami, Akiko;Tanaka, Hiroto;Hirata, Masato
P>The GABA(A) receptor, a pentamer composed predominantly of alpha, beta, and gamma subunits, mediates fast inhibitory synaptic transmission. We have previously reported that phospholipase C-related inactive protein (PRIP) is a modulator of GABA(A) receptor trafficking and that knockout (KO) mice exhibit a diazepam-insensitive phenotype in the hippocampus. The alpha subunit affects diazepam sensitivity; alpha 1, 2, 3, and 5 subunits assemble with any form of beta and the gamma 2 subunits to produce diazepam-sensitive receptors, whereas alpha 4 or alpha 6/beta/gamma 2 receptors are diazepam-insensitive. Here, we investigated how PRIP is implicated in the diazepam-insensitive phenotype using cerebellar granule cells in animals expressing predominantly the alpha 6 subunit. The expression of alpha 1/beta/gamma 2 diazepam-sensitive receptors was decreased in the PRIP-1 and 2 double KO cerebellum without any change in the total number of benzodiazepine-binding sites as assessed by radioligand-binding assay. Since levels of the alpha 6 subunit were increased, the alpha 1/beta/gamma 2 receptors might be replaced with alpha 6 subunit-containing receptors. Then, we further performed autoradiographic and electrophysiologic analyses. These results suggest that the expression of alpha 6/delta receptors was decreased in cerebellar granule neurons, while that of alpha 6/gamma 2 receptors was increased. PRIP-1 and 2 double KO mice exhibit a diazepam-insensitive phenotype because of a decrease in diazepam-sensitive (alpha 1/gamma 2) and increase in diazepam-insensitive (alpha 6/gamma 2) GABA(A) receptors in the cerebellar granule cells.