Abnormal features in mutant cerebellar Purkinje cells lacking junctophilins
Abnormal features in mutant cerebellar Purkinje cells lacking junctophilins
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DOI:
10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.09.062
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发表时间:
2007-11-23
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Takeshima, Hiroshi
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作者:
Ikeda, Atsushi;Miyazaki, Taisuke;Takeshima, Hiroshi
Junctional membrane complexes (JMCs) generated by junctophilins are required for Ca (2+) -Mediated communication between cell-surface and intracellular channels in excitable cells. Knockout mice lacking neural junctophilins (JP-DKO) show severe motor defects and irregular cerebellar plasticity due to abolished channel crosstalk in Purkinje cells (PCs). To precisely understand aberrations in JP-DKO mice, we further analyzed the mutant PCs. During the induction of cerebellar plasticity via electrical stimuli, JP-DKO PCs showed insufficient depolarizing responses. Immunochemistry detected mild impairment in synaptic maturation and hyperphosphorylation of protein kinase C gamma in JP-DKO PCs. Moreover, gene expression was slightly altered in the JP-DKO cerebellum. Therefore, the mutant PCs bear marginal but widespread abnormalities, all of which likely cause cerebellar motor defects in JP-DKO mice. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.