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Montnach J, Blömer LA, Lopez L, Filipis L, Meudal H, Lafoux A, Nicolas S, Chu D, Caumes C, Béroud R, Jopling C, Bosmans F, Huchet C, Landon C, Canepari M, De Waard M. In vivo spatiotemporal control of voltage-gated ion channels by using photoactivatable peptidic toxins. Nat Commun 2022; 13:417. [PMID: 35058427 PMCID: PMC8776733 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27974-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Photoactivatable drugs targeting ligand-gated ion channels open up new opportunities for light-guided therapeutic interventions. Photoactivable toxins targeting ion channels have the potential to control excitable cell activities with low invasiveness and high spatiotemporal precision. As proof-of-concept, we develop HwTxIV-Nvoc, a UV light-cleavable and photoactivatable peptide that targets voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels and validate its activity in vitro in HEK293 cells, ex vivo in brain slices and in vivo on mice neuromuscular junctions. We find that HwTxIV-Nvoc enables precise spatiotemporal control of neuronal NaV channel function under all conditions tested. By creating multiple photoactivatable toxins, we demonstrate the broad applicability of this toxin-photoactivation technology.
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- Jérôme Montnach
- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV NANTES, F-44007, Nantes, France
- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France
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- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5588, 38402, St Martin d'Hères, cedex, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV NANTES, F-44007, Nantes, France
- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France
- Smartox Biotechnology, 6 rue des Platanes, F-38120, Saint-Egrève, France
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- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5588, 38402, St Martin d'Hères, cedex, France
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- Center for Molecular Biophysics, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, CS 80054, Orléans, 45071, France
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- Therassay Platform, IRS2-Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV NANTES, F-44007, Nantes, France
- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France
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- Queen's University Faculty of Medicine, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Smartox Biotechnology, 6 rue des Platanes, F-38120, Saint-Egrève, France
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- Smartox Biotechnology, 6 rue des Platanes, F-38120, Saint-Egrève, France
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34094, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Basic and Applied Medical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Therassay Platform, IRS2-Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Center for Molecular Biophysics, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, CS 80054, Orléans, 45071, France
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- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5588, 38402, St Martin d'Hères, cedex, France
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- l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV NANTES, F-44007, Nantes, France.
- Laboratory of Excellence Ion Channels, Science & Therapeutics, F-06560, Valbonne, France.
- Smartox Biotechnology, 6 rue des Platanes, F-38120, Saint-Egrève, France.
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Nin-Hill A, Mueller NPF, Molteni C, Rovira C, Alfonso-Prieto M. Photopharmacology of Ion Channels through the Light of the Computational Microscope. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:12072. [PMID: 34769504 PMCID: PMC8584574 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222112072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Revised: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The optical control and investigation of neuronal activity can be achieved and carried out with photoswitchable ligands. Such compounds are designed in a modular fashion, combining a known ligand of the target protein and a photochromic group, as well as an additional electrophilic group for tethered ligands. Such a design strategy can be optimized by including structural data. In addition to experimental structures, computational methods (such as homology modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics and enhanced sampling techniques) can provide structural insights to guide photoswitch design and to understand the observed light-regulated effects. This review discusses the application of such structure-based computational methods to photoswitchable ligands targeting voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels. Structural mapping may help identify residues near the ligand binding pocket amenable for mutagenesis and covalent attachment. Modeling of the target protein in a complex with the photoswitchable ligand can shed light on the different activities of the two photoswitch isomers and the effect of site-directed mutations on photoswitch binding, as well as ion channel subtype selectivity. The examples presented here show how the integration of computational modeling with experimental data can greatly facilitate photoswitchable ligand design and optimization. Recent advances in structural biology, both experimental and computational, are expected to further strengthen this rational photopharmacology approach.
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- Alba Nin-Hill
- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica (Secció de Química Orgànica) and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; (A.N.-H.); (C.R.)
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- Institute for Advanced Simulations IAS-5 and Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine INM-9, Computational Biomedicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany;
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Physics Department, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK;
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica (Secció de Química Orgànica) and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; (A.N.-H.); (C.R.)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08020 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Advanced Simulations IAS-5 and Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine INM-9, Computational Biomedicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany;
- Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Inoue K, Tsunoda SP, Singh M, Tomida S, Hososhima S, Konno M, Nakamura R, Watanabe H, Bulzu PA, Banciu HL, Andrei AŞ, Uchihashi T, Ghai R, Béjà O, Kandori H. Schizorhodopsins: A family of rhodopsins from Asgard archaea that function as light-driven inward H + pumps. Sci Adv 2020; 6:eaaz2441. [PMID: 32300653 PMCID: PMC7148096 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz2441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Schizorhodopsins (SzRs), a rhodopsin family first identified in Asgard archaea, the archaeal group closest to eukaryotes, are present at a phylogenetically intermediate position between typical microbial rhodopsins and heliorhodopsins. However, the biological function and molecular properties of SzRs have not been reported. Here, SzRs from Asgardarchaeota and from a yet unknown microorganism are expressed in Escherichia coli and mammalian cells, and ion transport assays and patch clamp analyses are used to demonstrate SzR as a novel type of light-driven inward H+ pump. The mutation of a cytoplasmic glutamate inhibited inward H+ transport, suggesting that it functions as a cytoplasmic H+ acceptor. The function, trimeric structure, and H+ transport mechanism of SzR are similar to that of xenorhodopsin (XeR), a light-driven inward H+ pumping microbial rhodopsins, implying that they evolved convergently. The inward H+ pump function of SzR provides new insight into the photobiological life cycle of the Asgardarchaeota.
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- Keiichi Inoue
- The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
- Corresponding author. (K.I.); (H.K.)
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- Corresponding author. (K.I.); (H.K.)
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This chapter details methods to express and modify ATP-gated P2X receptor channels so that they can be controlled using light. Following expression in cells, a photoswitchable tool compound can be used to covalently modify mutant P2X receptors, as previously demonstrated for homomeric P2X2 and P2X3 receptors, and heteromeric P2X2/3 receptors. Engineered P2X receptors can be rapidly and reversibly opened and closed by different wavelengths of light. Light-activated P2X receptors can be mutated further to impart ATP-insensitivity if required. This method offers control of specific P2X receptor channels with high spatiotemporal precision to study their roles in physiology and pathophysiology.
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- Benjamin N Atkinson
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, UK
- Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, UK
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- Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London, UK.
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK.
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Sineshchekov OA, Govorunova EG, Li H, Wang X, Spudich JL. Opposite Charge Movements Within the Photoactive Site Modulate Two-Step Channel Closing in GtACR1. Biophys J 2019; 117:2034-2040. [PMID: 31676131 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Guillardia theta anion channelrhodopsin 1 is a light-gated anion channel widely used as an optogenetic inhibitory tool. Our recently published crystal structure of its dark (closed) state revealed that the photoactive retinylidene chromophore is located midmembrane in a full-length intramolecular tunnel through the protein, the radius of which is less than that of a chloride ion. Here we show that acidic (glutamate) substitutions for residues within the inner half-tunnel enhance the fast channel closing and, for residues within the outer half-tunnel, enhance the slow channel closing. The magnitude of these effects was proportional to the distance of the mutated residue from the photoactive site. These data indicate that the local electrical field across the photoactive site controls fast and slow channel closing, involving outward and inward charge displacements. In the purified mutant proteins, we observed corresponding opposite changes in kinetics of the M photocycle intermediate. A correlation between fast closing and M rise and slow closing and M decay observed in the mutants suggests that the Schiff base proton is one of the displaced charges. Opposite signs of the effects indicate that deprotonation and reprotonation of the Schiff base take place on the same (outer) side of the membrane and explains opposite rectification of fast and slow channel closing. Оur comprehensive protein-wide acidic residue substitution screen shows that only mutations of the residues located in the intramolecular tunnel confer strong rectification, which confirms the prediction that the tunnel expands upon photoexcitation to form the anion pathway.
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- Oleg A Sineshchekov
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Membrane Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Membrane Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Membrane Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Membrane Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Membrane Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
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Cun-Jin S, Jian-Hao X, Xu L, Feng-Lun Z, Jie P, Ai-Ming S, Duan-Min H, Yun-Li Y, Tong L, Yu-Song Z. X-ray induces mechanical and heat allodynia in mouse via TRPA1 and TRPV1 activation. Mol Pain 2019; 15:1744806919849201. [PMID: 31012378 PMCID: PMC6509987 DOI: 10.1177/1744806919849201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Radiotherapy-related pain is a common adverse reaction with a high incidence among cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and remarkably reduces the quality of life. However, the mechanisms of ionizing radiation-induced pain are largely unknown. In this study, mice were treated with 20 Gy X-ray to establish ionizing radiation-induced pain model. X-ray evoked a prolonged mechanical, heat, and cold allodynia in mice. Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 and transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 were significantly upregulated in lumbar dorsal root ganglion. The mechanical and heat allodynia could be transiently reverted by intrathecal injection of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 antagonist capsazepine and transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 antagonist HC-030031. Additionally, the phosphorylated extracellular regulated protein kinases (ERK) and Jun NH2-terminal Kinase (JNK) in pain neural pathway were induced by X-ray treatment. Our findings indicated that activation of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 and transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 is essential for the development of X-ray-induced allodynia. Furthermore, our findings suggest that targeting on transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 and transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 may be promising prevention strategies for X-ray-induced allodynia in clinical practice.
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- Su Cun-Jin
- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Institute of Neuroscience, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- College of Life Sciences, Yanan University, Yanan, China
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Kim YS, Kato HE, Yamashita K, Ito S, Inoue K, Ramakrishnan C, Fenno LE, Evans KE, Paggi JM, Dror RO, Kandori H, Kobilka BK, Deisseroth K. Crystal structure of the natural anion-conducting channelrhodopsin GtACR1. Nature 2018; 561:343-348. [PMID: 30158696 PMCID: PMC6340299 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0511-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The naturally occurring channelrhodopsin variant anion channelrhodopsin-1 (ACR1), discovered in the cryptophyte algae Guillardia theta, exhibits large light-gated anion conductance and high anion selectivity when expressed in heterologous settings, properties that support its use as an optogenetic tool to inhibit neuronal firing with light. However, molecular insight into ACR1 is lacking owing to the absence of structural information underlying light-gated anion conductance. Here we present the crystal structure of G. theta ACR1 at 2.9 Å resolution. The structure reveals unusual architectural features that span the extracellular domain, retinal-binding pocket, Schiff-base region, and anion-conduction pathway. Together with electrophysiological and spectroscopic analyses, these findings reveal the fundamental molecular basis of naturally occurring light-gated anion conductance, and provide a framework for designing the next generation of optogenetic tools.
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- Yoon Seok Kim
- Department of Bioengineering, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Japan.
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Japan
- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
- OptoBioTechnology Research Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Watanabe Y, Sugano E, Tabata K, Ozaki T, Saito T, Tamai M, Tomita H. Kinetic profiles of photocurrents in cells expressing two types of channelrhodopsin genes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 496:814-819. [PMID: 29395082 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.01.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a light-activated cation-selective ion channel, has been widely used as a tool in optogenetic research. ChR2 is specifically sensitive to wavelengths less than 550 nm. One of the methods to expand the sensitivity of a channelrhodopsin to a wider range of wavelengths is to express another channelrhodopsin in the cells by the transduction of an additional gene. Here, we report the characteristic features of cells expressing two types of channelrhodopsins, each having different wavelength sensitivities. In HEK293 cells stably expressing ChR2, photocurrents were elicited at stimuli of 400-550 nm, and the wavelength sensitivity range was expanded by the additional transduction of the modified Volvox channelrhodopsin-1 (mVChR1) gene, which has broad wavelength sensitivities, ranging from 400 to 600 nm. However, the photocurrent at 550 nm was lower than that of the mVChR1-expressing cell; moreover, the turning-on and turning-off constants were delayed, and the deactivation rates were decreased. Meanwhile, the response to lower light intensity was improved by the additional gene. Thus, the transduction of an additional gene is a useful method to improve the light and wavelength sensitivities, as well as photocurrent kinetic profiles, of channelrhodopsins.
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- Yoshito Watanabe
- Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8551, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8551, Japan; Soft-Path Engineering Research Center (SPERC), Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, Morioka, 020-8551, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8551, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8551, Japan; Soft-Path Engineering Research Center (SPERC), Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, Morioka, 020-8551, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8551, Japan.
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- Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8551, Japan; Soft-Path Engineering Research Center (SPERC), Iwate University Division of Science and Engineering, Morioka, 020-8551, Japan; Clinical Research, Innovation and Education Center, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan.
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Guo Y, Wolter T, Kubař T, Sumser M, Trauner D, Elstner M. Molecular Dynamics Investigation of gluazo, a Photo-Switchable Ligand for the Glutamate Receptor GluK2. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135399. [PMID: 26308344 PMCID: PMC4550381 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Photochromic ligands (PCLs), defined as photoswitchable molecules that are able to endow native receptors with a sensitivity towards light, have become a promising photopharmacological tool for various applications in biology. In general, PCLs consist of a ligand of the target receptor covalently linked to an azobenzene, which can be reversibly switched between two configurations upon light illumination. Gluazo, as a PCL that targets excitatory amino acid receptors, in its dark-adapted trans iso-form was characterized to be a partial agonist of the kainate glutamate receptor GluK2. Application of UV light leads to the formation of the cis form, with remarkedly reduced affinity towards GluK2. The mechanism of the change of ligand affinity induced by the photoisomerization was unresolved. The presented computational study explains how the isomerization of such a PCL affects the structural changes in the target receptor that lead to its activation.
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- Yanan Guo
- Department of Theoretical Chemical Biology, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Theoretical Chemical Biology, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Theoretical Chemical Biology, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Center of Integrated Protein Science, Butenandtstr. 5–13, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Center of Integrated Protein Science, Butenandtstr. 5–13, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Theoretical Chemical Biology, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Lim MH, Seo AR, Kim J, Min BH, Baik EJ, Park SR, Choi BH. Effects of low-intensity ultrasound on gramicidin D-induced erythrocyte edema. J Ultrasound Med 2014; 33:949-957. [PMID: 24866602 DOI: 10.7863/ultra.33.6.949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To determine whether low-intensity ultrasound (US) can reduce red blood cell (RBC) edema and, if so, whether the US activity is associated with aquaporin 1 (AQP-1), a water channel in the cell membrane. METHODS Red blood cell edema was induced by gramicidin D treatment at 40 ng/mL for 20 minutes and evaluated by a hematocrit assay. Low-intensity continuous wave US at 1 MHz was applied to RBCs for the last 10 minutes of gramicidin D treatment. To determine whether US activity was associated with AQP-1, RBCs were treated with 40 μM mercuric chloride (HgCl(2)), an AQP-1 inhibitor, for 20 minutes at the time of gramicidin D treatment. Posttreatment morphologic changes in RBCs were observed by actin staining with phalloidin. RESULTS Red blood cell edema increased significantly with gramicidin D at 20 (1.8%), 40 (6.7%), 60 (16.7%), and 80 (11.3%) ng/mL, reaching a peak at 60 ng/mL, compared to the control group (20 ng/mL, P = .019; 40, 60, and 80 ng/mL, P < .001). No significant RBC hemolysis was observed in any group. Edema induced by gramicidin D at 40 ng/mL was significantly reduced by US at 30 (3.4%; P = .003), 70 (4.4%; P = .001), and 100 (2.9%; P = .001) mW/cm(2). Subsequent experiments showed that edema reduction by US ranged from 7% to 10%. Cotreatment with HgCl(2) partially reversed the US effect and showed a significantly different level of edema compared to gramicidin D-alone and US-cotreated groups (P = .001). These results were confirmed by microscopic observation of RBC morphologic changes. CONCLUSIONS Low-intensity US could reduce gramicidin D-induced RBC edema, and its effect appeared to at least partly involve regulation of AQP-1 activity. These results suggest that low-intensity US can be used as an alternative treatment to control edema and related disorders.
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- Mi Hyun Lim
- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Physiology (M.H.L., A.R.S., S.R.P.), Inha Research Institute for Medical Sciences (J.K.), and Division of Biomedical and Bioengineering Sciences (B.H.C.), Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea; and Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (B.-H.M.) and Physiology (E.J.B.), Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
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Optical probing and manipulation of cellular signaling has revolutionized biological studies ranging from isolated cells to intact tissues in the live animal. A promising avenue of optical manipulation is Chemical Optogenetics (or Optogenetic Pharmacology), an approach for engineering specific proteins to be rapidly and reversibly switched on and off with light. The approach employs synthetic photoswitched ligands, which can be reversibly photo-isomerized to toggle back and forth between two conformations in response to two wavelengths of light. We focus here on the photoswitched tethered ligand (PTL) approach in which the PTL is covalently attached in a site-directed manner to a signaling protein. For this a ligand anchoring site is introduced at a location which allows the ligand to dock only in one of the light-controlled conformations, thus enabling liganding to be rapidly switched. The ligand can be an agonist, antagonist or an active site (or pore) blocker. In principle, orthogonal chemistries of attachment would make PTL anchoring completely unique. However, extremely high specificity of remote control is also obtained by cysteine attachment because of the ligand specificity and precise geometric requirements for liganding. We describe here the design of light-gated ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors, the selection of a site for cysteine placement, the method for PTL attachment, and a detailed protocol of photoswitching experiments in cultured cells. These descriptions can guide applications of Chemical Optogenetics to other receptors and serve as a starting point for use in more complex preparations.
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- Andreas Reiner
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Sumser M, Stawski P. Photocontrol of AMPA receptors with a photochromic ligand. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1148:69-76. [PMID: 24718795 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0470-9_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Photochromic ligands (PCLs), recently introduced by our group as a tool for researchers in neuroscience, offer the ability to control native receptors with light in a reversible fashion without the need for any genetic manipulation. Here we describe the application of the PCL Azo-Tetrazole-AMPA-3 (ATA-3) to reversibly gate native AMPA-receptors with blue light and thereby control the activity of cortical neurons in brain slices.
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- Martin Sumser
- Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstr. 5-13, 81377, Munich, Germany,
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Mohanta D, Stava E, Yu M, Blick RH. Creation and regulation of ion channels across reconstituted phospholipid bilayers generated by streptavidin-linked magnetite nanoparticles. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2014; 89:012707. [PMID: 24580257 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.012707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In this work, we explore the nature of ion-channel-like conductance fluctuations across a reconstituted phospholipid bilayer due to insertion of ∼100 nm sized, streptavidin-linked magnetite nanoparticles under static magnetic fields (SMFs). For a fixed bias voltage, the frequency of current bursts increases with the application of SMFs. Apart from a closed conductance state G(0) (≤14 pS), we identify four major conductance states, with the lowest conductance level (G(1)) being ∼126 pS. The number of channel events at G(1) is found to be nearly doubled (as compared to G(0)) at a magnetic field of 70 G. The higher-order open states (e.g., 3G(1), 5G(1)) are generally observable at larger values of biasing voltage and magnetic field. When the SMF of 145 G is applied, the multiconductance states are resolved distinctly and are assigned to the simultaneous opening and closing of several independent states. The origin of the current bursts is due to the instantaneous mechanical actuation of streptavidin-linked MNP chains across the phospholipid bilayer. The voltage-controlled, magnetogated ion channels are promising for diagnoses and therapeutic applications of excitable membranes and other biological systems.
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- Dambarudhar Mohanta
- Nanoscience and Soft Matter Laboratory, Department of Physics, Tezpur University, PO: Napaam, Tezpur 784028, Assam, India
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- Laboratory for Molecular Scale Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1415 Engineering Dr., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Laboratory for Molecular Scale Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1415 Engineering Dr., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Laboratory for Molecular Scale Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1415 Engineering Dr., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Optogenetics allows for the specific manipulation of the activity of genetically defined cell populations in the CNS. Yet, it requires effective gene delivery, light stimulation, and readout strategies. Here, we provide a roadmap aimed at guiding the experimenter in the process of establishing an optogenetic approach tailored to a given research hypothesis in the field of neuroscience.
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- Consuelo Fois
- Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN) and Institute for Microscopic Anatomy and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 19, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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Wang YF, Munemasa S, Nishimura N, Ren HM, Robert N, Han M, Puzõrjova I, Kollist H, Lee S, Mori I, Schroeder JI. Identification of cyclic GMP-activated nonselective Ca2+-permeable cation channels and associated CNGC5 and CNGC6 genes in Arabidopsis guard cells. Plant Physiol 2013; 163:578-90. [PMID: 24019428 PMCID: PMC3793039 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.225045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Cytosolic Ca(2+) in guard cells plays an important role in stomatal movement responses to environmental stimuli. These cytosolic Ca(2+) increases result from Ca(2+) influx through Ca(2+)-permeable channels in the plasma membrane and Ca(2+) release from intracellular organelles in guard cells. However, the genes encoding defined plasma membrane Ca(2+)-permeable channel activity remain unknown in guard cells and, with some exceptions, largely unknown in higher plant cells. Here, we report the identification of two Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) cation channel genes, CNGC5 and CNGC6, that are highly expressed in guard cells. Cytosolic application of cyclic GMP (cGMP) and extracellularly applied membrane-permeable 8-Bromoguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate-cGMP both activated hyperpolarization-induced inward-conducting currents in wild-type guard cells using Mg(2+) as the main charge carrier. The cGMP-activated currents were strongly blocked by lanthanum and gadolinium and also conducted Ba(2+), Ca(2+), and Na(+) ions. cngc5 cngc6 double mutant guard cells exhibited dramatically impaired cGMP-activated currents. In contrast, mutations in CNGC1, CNGC2, and CNGC20 did not disrupt these cGMP-activated currents. The yellow fluorescent protein-CNGC5 and yellow fluorescent protein-CNGC6 proteins localize in the cell periphery. Cyclic AMP activated modest inward currents in both wild-type and cngc5cngc6 mutant guard cells. Moreover, cngc5 cngc6 double mutant guard cells exhibited functional abscisic acid (ABA)-activated hyperpolarization-dependent Ca(2+)-permeable cation channel currents, intact ABA-induced stomatal closing responses, and whole-plant stomatal conductance responses to darkness and changes in CO2 concentration. Furthermore, cGMP-activated currents remained intact in the growth controlled by abscisic acid2 and abscisic acid insensitive1 mutants. This research demonstrates that the CNGC5 and CNGC6 genes encode unique cGMP-activated nonselective Ca(2+)-permeable cation channels in the plasma membrane of Arabidopsis guard cells.
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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Ye W, Muroyama D, Munemasa S, Nakamura Y, Mori IC, Murata Y. Calcium-dependent protein kinase CPK6 positively functions in induction by yeast elicitor of stomatal closure and inhibition by yeast elicitor of light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 2013; 163:591-9. [PMID: 23922271 PMCID: PMC3793040 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.224055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Yeast elicitor (YEL) induces stomatal closure that is mediated by a Ca(2+)-dependent signaling pathway. A Ca(2+)-dependent protein kinase, CPK6, positively regulates activation of ion channels in abscisic acid and methyl jasmonate signaling, leading to stomatal closure in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). YEL also inhibits light-induced stomatal opening. However, it remains unknown whether CPK6 is involved in induction by YEL of stomatal closure or in inhibition by YEL of light-induced stomatal opening. In this study, we investigated the roles of CPK6 in induction by YEL of stomatal closure and inhibition by YEL of light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis. Disruption of CPK6 gene impaired induction by YEL of stomatal closure and inhibition by YEL of light-induced stomatal opening. Activation by YEL of nonselective Ca(2+)-permeable cation channels was impaired in cpk6-2 guard cells, and transient elevations elicited by YEL in cytosolic-free Ca(2+) concentration were suppressed in cpk6-2 and cpk6-1 guard cells. YEL activated slow anion channels in wild-type guard cells but not in cpk6-2 or cpk6-1 and inhibited inward-rectifying K(+) channels in wild-type guard cells but not in cpk6-2 or cpk6-1. The cpk6-2 and cpk6-1 mutations inhibited YEL-induced hydrogen peroxide accumulation in guard cells and apoplast of rosette leaves but did not affect YEL-induced hydrogen peroxide production in the apoplast of rosette leaves. These results suggest that CPK6 positively functions in induction by YEL of stomatal closure and inhibition by YEL of light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis and is a convergent point of signaling pathways for stomatal closure in response to abiotic and biotic stress.
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Yin Y, Adachi Y, Ye W, Hayashi M, Nakamura Y, Kinoshita T, Mori IC, Murata Y. Difference in abscisic acid perception mechanisms between closure induction and opening inhibition of stomata. Plant Physiol 2013; 163:600-10. [PMID: 23946352 PMCID: PMC3793041 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.223826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Abscisic acid (ABA) induces stomatal closure and inhibits light-induced stomatal opening. The mechanisms in these two processes are not necessarily the same. It has been postulated that the ABA receptors involved in opening inhibition are different from those involved in closure induction. Here, we provide evidence that four recently identified ABA receptors (PYRABACTIN RESISTANCE1 [PYR1], PYRABACTIN RESISTANCE-LIKE1 [PYL1], PYL2, and PYL4) are not sufficient for opening inhibition in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). ABA-induced stomatal closure was impaired in the pyr1/pyl1/pyl2/pyl4 quadruple ABA receptor mutant. ABA inhibition of the opening of the mutant's stomata remained intact. ABA did not induce either the production of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide or the alkalization of the cytosol in the quadruple mutant, in accordance with the closure phenotype. Whole cell patch-clamp analysis of inward-rectifying K(+) current in guard cells showed a partial inhibition by ABA, indicating that the ABA sensitivity of the mutant was not fully impaired. ABA substantially inhibited blue light-induced phosphorylation of H(+)-ATPase in guard cells in both the mutant and the wild type. On the other hand, in a knockout mutant of the SNF1-related protein kinase, srk2e, stomatal opening and closure, reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide production, cytosolic alkalization, inward-rectifying K(+) current inactivation, and H(+)-ATPase phosphorylation were not sensitive to ABA.
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Tokuda T, Nakajima S, Maezawa Y, Noda T, Sasagawa K, Ishikawa Y, Shiosaka S, Ohta J. An in vitro demonstration of CMOS-based optoelectronic neural interface device for optogenetics. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2013; 2013:799-802. [PMID: 24109808 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2013.6609621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A CMOS-based neural interface device equipped with an integrated micro light source array for optogenetics was fabricated and demonstrated. A GaInN LED array formed on sapphire substrate was successfully assembled with a multifunctional CMOS image sensor that is capable of on-chip current injection. We demonstrated a functionality of light stimulation onto ChR2-expressed cells in an in vitro experiment. A ChR2-expressed cell were successfully stimulated with the light emitted from the fabricated device.
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Wang Y, Papanatsiou M, Eisenach C, Karnik R, Williams M, Hills A, Lew VL, Blatt MR. Systems dynamic modeling of a guard cell Cl- channel mutant uncovers an emergent homeostatic network regulating stomatal transpiration. Plant Physiol 2012; 160:1956-67. [PMID: 23090586 PMCID: PMC3510123 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.207704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2012] [Accepted: 10/20/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Stomata account for much of the 70% of global water usage associated with agriculture and have a profound impact on the water and carbon cycles of the world. Stomata have long been modeled mathematically, but until now, no systems analysis of a plant cell has yielded detail sufficient to guide phenotypic and mutational analysis. Here, we demonstrate the predictive power of a systems dynamic model in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) to explain the paradoxical suppression of channels that facilitate K(+) uptake, slowing stomatal opening, by mutation of the SLAC1 anion channel, which mediates solute loss for closure. The model showed how anion accumulation in the mutant suppressed the H(+) load on the cytosol and promoted Ca(2+) influx to elevate cytosolic pH (pH(i)) and free cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)), in turn regulating the K(+) channels. We have confirmed these predictions, measuring pH(i) and [Ca(2+)](i) in vivo, and report that experimental manipulation of pH(i) and [Ca(2+)](i) is sufficient to recover K(+) channel activities and accelerate stomatal opening in the slac1 mutant. Thus, we uncover a previously unrecognized signaling network that ameliorates the effects of the slac1 mutant on transpiration by regulating the K(+) channels. Additionally, these findings underscore the importance of H(+)-coupled anion transport for pH(i) homeostasis.
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Sandoz G, Isacoff EY. [Optical remote control of native ion channels]. Med Sci (Paris) 2012; 28:934-7. [PMID: 23171896 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20122811011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Demontis GC, Aruta C, Comitato A, De Marzo A, Marigo V. Functional and molecular characterization of rod-like cells from retinal stem cells derived from the adult ciliary epithelium. PLoS One 2012; 7:e33338. [PMID: 22432014 PMCID: PMC3303820 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 02/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In vitro generation of photoreceptors from stem cells is of great interest for the development of regenerative medicine approaches for patients affected by retinal degeneration and for high throughput drug screens for these diseases. In this study, we show unprecedented high percentages of rod-fated cells from retinal stem cells of the adult ciliary epithelium. Molecular characterization of rod-like cells demonstrates that they lose ciliary epithelial characteristics but acquire photoreceptor features. Rod maturation was evaluated at two levels: gene expression and electrophysiological functionality. Here we present a strong correlation between phototransduction protein expression and functionality of the cells in vitro. We demonstrate that in vitro generated rod-like cells express cGMP-gated channels that are gated by endogenous cGMP. We also identified voltage-gated channels necessary for rod maturation and viability. This level of analysis for the first time provides evidence that adult retinal stem cells can generate highly homogeneous rod-fated cells.
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- Gian Carlo Demontis
- Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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Zhao X, Qiao XR, Yuan J, Ma XF, Zhang X. Nitric oxide inhibits blue light-induced stomatal opening by regulating the K+ influx in guard cells. Plant Sci 2012; 184:29-35. [PMID: 22284707 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2011.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2011] [Revised: 12/08/2011] [Accepted: 12/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Blue light (BL)-induced stomatal opening and nitric oxide (NO)-promoted stomatal closure comprise two main aspects of stomatal regulation. Stomatal movement depends on ion fluxion in guard cells, whereas the physiological roles of BL or NO in regulating ion channel activities remain largely unknown. For gaining further insights into NO function in mediating BL-induced stomatal opening, guard cell protoplasts (GCPs) were patch-clamped in a whole-cell configuration. The results showed that twice BL pulses (100 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹ for 30s) effectively activated inward rectifying K⁺ channels by 67% and 20% in Vicia GCPs, respectively. In contrast, Red light (RL) showed little effect on inward rectifying K⁺ channels. In accord with this, BL also increased inward K⁺ currents by 54% in Arabidopsis thaliana wild type gl1, but not in phot1-5 phot2-1 (BL receptor phototropin deletion mutant). Sodium nitroprusside (SNP, a NO donor), at 100 μM, inhibited BL-dependent K⁺ influx and stomatal opening, which were abolished by c-PTIO (a specific NO scavenger). These results indicated that NO inhibits BL-induced stomatal opening maybe through restricting the K⁺ influx across plasma membrane in guard cells.
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- Xiang Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Key laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, People's Republic of China
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Bègue A, Anselmi F, Papagiakoumou E, Emiliani V. [Wavefront engineering for two-photon excitation of optogenetic tools]. Med Sci (Paris) 2011; 27:811-3. [PMID: 22027415 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20112710006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Calero C, Faraudo J, Aguilella-Arzo M. First-passage-time analysis of atomic-resolution simulations of the ionic transport in a bacterial porin. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2011; 83:021908. [PMID: 21405864 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.021908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We have studied the dynamics of chloride and potassium ions in the interior of the Outer membrane porin F (OmpF) under the influence of an external electric field. From the results of extensive all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the system, we computed several first-passage-time (FPT) quantities to characterize the dynamics of the ions in the interior of the channel. Such FPT quantities obtained from MD simulations demonstrate that it is not possible to describe the dynamics of chloride and potassium ions inside the whole channel with a single constant diffusion coefficient. However, we showed that a valid, statistically rigorous description in terms of a constant diffusion coefficient D and an effective deterministic force F(eff) can be obtained after appropriate subdivision of the channel in different regions suggested by the x-ray structure. These results have important implications for popular simplified descriptions of channels based on the one-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations. Also, the effect of entropic barriers on the diffusion of the ions is identified and briefly discussed.
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- Carles Calero
- Institut de Ciència dels Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
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Rokitskaya TI, Macrae MX, Blake S, Egorova NS, Kotova EA, Yang J, Antonenko YN. Mechanistic insight into gramicidin-based detection of protein-ligand interactions via sensitized photoinactivation. J Phys Condens Matter 2010; 22:454118. [PMID: 21339605 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/45/454118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Among the many challenges for the development of ion channel-based sensors is the poor understanding of how to engineer modified transmembrane pores with tailored functionality that can respond to external stimuli. Here, we use the method of sensitized photoinactivation of gramicidin A (gA) channels in planar bilayer lipid membranes to help elucidate the underlying mechanistic details for changes in macroscopic transmembrane ionic current observed upon interaction of C-terminally attached gA ligands with specific proteins in solution. Three different systems were studied: (i) carbonic anhydrase (CA) and gA-sulfonamide, (ii) PSD-95 protein (belonging to the 'PDZ domain-containing protein') and a gA analog carrying the KGGHRRSARYLESSV peptide sequence at the C-terminus, and (iii) an anti-biotin antibody and gA-biotin. The results challenge a previously proposed mechanistic hypothesis suggesting that protein-induced current suppression is due to steric blockage of the ion passage through gA channels, while they reveal new insight for consideration in alternative mechanistic models. Additionally, we demonstrate that the length of a linker between the ligand and the gA channel may be less important for gramicidin-based detection of monovalent compared to multivalent protein-ligand interactions. These studies collectively shed new light on the mechanism of protein-induced current alterations in bilayer recordings of gA derivatives, which may be important in the design of new gramicidin-based sensors.
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- Tatyana I Rokitskaya
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Background The light-gated cation channel channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) is a powerful tool for the optical induction of action potentials in neurons. Mutations of the cysteine 128 (C128) residue have been shown to greatly extend the lifetime of the conducting state of ChR2. However, until now, only subthreshold depolarizations have been reported from C128 mutants. Methods and Findings Here we report the induction of long high-frequency spike trains by brief light pulses in ChR2(C128A)-transfected pyramidal cells in hippocampal slice culture. ChR2(C128A)-mediated spike bursts triggered expression of the immediate early gene c-fos in pyramidal neurons. Robust and cell-specific expression of c-Fos protein was detected after a single blue light pulse and depended on action potential firing, but not on synaptic activity. However, photocurrents diminished upon repeated stimulation and limited the number of action potential bursts that could be elicited. Conclusions We conclude that the C128A mutant is not suitable for chronic stimulation of neurons, but very useful for light-controlled induction of immediate early genes. This property of ChR2(C128A) could be harnessed to control the expression of proteins under control of the c-fos promoter with precise timing and single cell specificity.
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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Bulychev AA, Krupenina NA. Transient removal of alkaline zones after excitation of Chara cells is associated with inactivation of high conductance in the plasmalemma. Plant Signal Behav 2009; 4:727-34. [PMID: 19820298 PMCID: PMC2801383 DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.8.9306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The action potential (AP) of excitable plant cells is a multifunctional physiological signal. Its generation in characean algae suppresses the pH banding for 15-30 min and enhances the heterogeneity of spatial distribution of photosynthetic activity. This suppression is largely due to the cessation of H(+) influx (OH(-) efflux) in the alkaline cell regions. Measurements of local pH and membrane conductance in individual space-clamped alkaline zones (small cell areas bathed in an isolated pool of external medium) showed that the AP generation is followed by the transient disappearance of alkaline zone in parallel with a large decrease in membrane conductance. These changes, specific to alkaline zones, were only observed under continuous illumination following a relaxation period of at least 15 min after previous excitation. The excitation of dark-adapted cells produced no conductance changes in the post-excitation period. The results indicate that the origin of alkaline zones in characean cells is not due to operation of electroneutral H(+)/HCO(3)(-) symport or OH(-)/HCO(3)(-) antiport. It is concluded that the membrane excitation is associated with inactivation of plasmalemma high conductance in the alkaline cell regions.
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- Alexander A Bulychev
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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Idoux E, Eugène D, Chambaz A, Magnani C, White JA, Moore LE. Control of neuronal persistent activity by voltage-dependent dendritic properties. J Neurophysiol 2008; 100:1278-86. [PMID: 18632879 PMCID: PMC2544453 DOI: 10.1152/jn.90559.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2008] [Accepted: 07/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Neural integrators and working memory rely on persistent activity, a widespread neural phenomenon potentially involving persistent sodium conductances. Using a unique combination of voltage-clamp, dynamic-clamp, and frequency-domain techniques, we have investigated the role of voltage-dependent conductances on the dendritic electrotonic structure of neurons of the prepositus hypoglossi nucleus (PHN), which is known to be involved in oculomotor integration. The PHN contains two main neuronal populations: type B neurons with a double afterhyperpolarization and type D neurons, which not only are oscillatory but also have a greater electrotonic length than that of type B neurons. The persistent sodium conductance is present in all PHN neurons, although its effect on the dynamic electrotonic structure is shown to significantly differ in the two major cell types present in the nucleus. The electrotonic differences are such that the persistent sodium conductance can be almost perfectly manipulated in a type B neuron using an on-line dynamic clamp to add or subtract virtual sodium ion channels. The dynamic-clamp results are confirmed by data-fitted models, which suggest that the persistent sodium conductance has two different roles depending on its somatic versus dendritic location: perisomatic conductances could play a major role in maintaining action potential discharge and dendritic conductances would be more involved in other computational properties, such as those involving remote synaptic processing or bistable events.
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- Erwin Idoux
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Réseaux Sensorimoteurs, UMR 7060, Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5) CNRS, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to investigate the effects of WIN55,212-2, a potential cannabinoid receptor agonist, on voltage-gated sodium currents I(Na) in cultured trigeminal ganglion neurons of rats, and to investigate whether the anti-nociceptive effects of cannabinoid receptor subtype 1 (CB1) were produced through its modulation on I(Na). METHODS Whole cell patch clamp techniques were used to record I(Na) before and after WIN55,212-2 was perfused in cultured trigeminal ganglion neurons of rats. RESULTS WIN55,212-2 (0.01 micromol/l) could enhance I(Na) slightly by 11.5 +/- 4.7% (n=7, p<0.05), and this effect could not be blocked by AM251, the CB1 receptor antagonist. However, WIN55,212-2 could inhibit I(Na) in concentration dependent manner at concentrations from 0.1 to 100 micromol/l. The inhibitory rates were 17.4 +/- 6.0, 22.5 +/- 7.8, 43.9 +/- 9.4 and 73.9 +/- 6.7% respectively by 0.1, 1, 10, 100 micromol/l WIN55,212-2, and the EC(50) was 17.8 micromol/l (n=7, p<0.05 or p<0.01). This inhibitory effect could be blocked partly by 1 micromol/l AM251 (n=7, p<0.05). WIN55,212-2 (0.01 micromol/l) shifted the active curve of I(Na) leftward slightly (n=7, p<0.05), but had no effect on its stable inactive curve (n=7, p>0.05). WIN55,212-2 (10 micromol/l) did not affect the active and stable inactive curves of I(Na) (n=7, p>0.05). CONCLUSION WIN55,212-2 had bidirectional (two phases) effects on I(Na) in trigeminal ganglion neurons. It might act on different receptors, and the CB1 receptor participated in its modulation on I(Na).
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- Hui Fu
- Department of Pharmacology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
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Berthold P, Tsunoda SP, Ernst OP, Mages W, Gradmann D, Hegemann P. Channelrhodopsin-1 initiates phototaxis and photophobic responses in chlamydomonas by immediate light-induced depolarization. Plant Cell 2008; 20:1665-77. [PMID: 18552201 PMCID: PMC2483371 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.057919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2008] [Revised: 04/25/2008] [Accepted: 05/24/2008] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Channelrhodopsins (CHR1 and CHR2) are light-gated ion channels acting as sensory photoreceptors in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In neuroscience, they are used to trigger action potentials by light in neuronal cells, tissues, or living animals. Here, we demonstrate that Chlamydomonas cells with low CHR2 content exhibit photophobic and phototactic responses that strictly depend on the availability of CHR1. Since CHR1 was described as a H+-channel, the ion specificity of CHR1 was reinvestigated in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Our experiments show that, in addition to H+, CHR1 also conducts Na+, K+, and Ca2+. The kinetic selectivity analysis demonstrates that H+ selectivity is not due to specific translocation but due to selective ion binding. Purified recombinant CHR1 consists of two isoforms with different absorption maxima, CHR1505 and CHR1463, that are in pH-dependent equilibrium. Thus, CHR1 is a photochromic and protochromic sensory photoreceptor that functions as a light-activated cation channel mediating phototactic and photophobic responses via depolarizing currents in a wide range of ionic conditions.
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- Peter Berthold
- Institute for Biology, Experimental Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Tzingounis AV, Kobayashi M, Takamatsu K, Nicoll RA. Hippocalcin gates the calcium activation of the slow afterhyperpolarization in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Neuron 2008; 53:487-93. [PMID: 17296551 PMCID: PMC1832111 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2006] [Revised: 01/10/2007] [Accepted: 01/11/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In the brain, calcium influx following a train of action potentials activates potassium channels that mediate a slow afterhyperpolarization current (I(sAHP)). The key steps between calcium influx and potassium channel activation remain unknown. Here we report that the key intermediate between calcium and the sAHP channels is the diffusible calcium sensor hippocalcin. Brief depolarizations sufficient to activate the I(sAHP) in wild-type mice do not elicit the I(sAHP) in hippocalcin knockout mice. Introduction of hippocalcin in cultured hippocampal neurons leads to a pronounced I(sAHP), while neurons expressing a hippocalcin mutant lacking N-terminal myristoylation exhibit a small I(sAHP) that is similar to that recorded in uninfected neurons. This implies that hippocalcin must bind to the plasma membrane to mediate its effects. These findings support a model in which the calcium sensor for the sAHP channels is not preassociated with the channel complex.
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- Department of Physiology, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Ohmori-nishi, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Ohmori-nishi, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143
- Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143
- *Address all correspondence to: Roger A. Nicoll, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143, Phone: (415) 476-2018, E-mail:
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Vahisalu T, Kollist H, Wang YF, Nishimura N, Chan WY, Valerio G, Lamminmäki A, Brosché M, Moldau H, Desikan R, Schroeder JI, Kangasjärvi J. SLAC1 is required for plant guard cell S-type anion channel function in stomatal signalling. Nature 2008. [PMID: 18305484 DOI: 10.1038/nature06608.slac1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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Stomatal pores, formed by two surrounding guard cells in the epidermis of plant leaves, allow influx of atmospheric carbon dioxide in exchange for transpirational water loss. Stomata also restrict the entry of ozone--an important air pollutant that has an increasingly negative impact on crop yields, and thus global carbon fixation and climate change. The aperture of stomatal pores is regulated by the transport of osmotically active ions and metabolites across guard cell membranes. Despite the vital role of guard cells in controlling plant water loss, ozone sensitivity and CO2 supply, the genes encoding some of the main regulators of stomatal movements remain unknown. It has been proposed that guard cell anion channels function as important regulators of stomatal closure and are essential in mediating stomatal responses to physiological and stress stimuli. However, the genes encoding membrane proteins that mediate guard cell anion efflux have not yet been identified. Here we report the mapping and characterization of an ozone-sensitive Arabidopsis thaliana mutant, slac1. We show that SLAC1 (SLOW ANION CHANNEL-ASSOCIATED 1) is preferentially expressed in guard cells and encodes a distant homologue of fungal and bacterial dicarboxylate/malic acid transport proteins. The plasma membrane protein SLAC1 is essential for stomatal closure in response to CO2, abscisic acid, ozone, light/dark transitions, humidity change, calcium ions, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide. Mutations in SLAC1 impair slow (S-type) anion channel currents that are activated by cytosolic Ca2+ and abscisic acid, but do not affect rapid (R-type) anion channel currents or Ca2+ channel function. A low homology of SLAC1 to bacterial and fungal organic acid transport proteins, and the permeability of S-type anion channels to malate suggest a vital role for SLAC1 in the function of S-type anion channels.
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- Triin Vahisalu
- Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Vahisalu T, Kollist H, Wang YF, Nishimura N, Chan WY, Valerio G, Lamminmäki A, Brosché M, Moldau H, Desikan R, Schroeder JI, Kangasjärvi J. SLAC1 is required for plant guard cell S-type anion channel function in stomatal signalling. Nature 2008; 452:487-91. [PMID: 18305484 PMCID: PMC2858982 DOI: 10.1038/nature06608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 573] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2007] [Accepted: 12/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Stomatal pores, formed by two surrounding guard cells in the epidermis of plant leaves, allow influx of atmospheric carbon dioxide in exchange for transpirational water loss. Stomata also restrict the entry of ozone--an important air pollutant that has an increasingly negative impact on crop yields, and thus global carbon fixation and climate change. The aperture of stomatal pores is regulated by the transport of osmotically active ions and metabolites across guard cell membranes. Despite the vital role of guard cells in controlling plant water loss, ozone sensitivity and CO2 supply, the genes encoding some of the main regulators of stomatal movements remain unknown. It has been proposed that guard cell anion channels function as important regulators of stomatal closure and are essential in mediating stomatal responses to physiological and stress stimuli. However, the genes encoding membrane proteins that mediate guard cell anion efflux have not yet been identified. Here we report the mapping and characterization of an ozone-sensitive Arabidopsis thaliana mutant, slac1. We show that SLAC1 (SLOW ANION CHANNEL-ASSOCIATED 1) is preferentially expressed in guard cells and encodes a distant homologue of fungal and bacterial dicarboxylate/malic acid transport proteins. The plasma membrane protein SLAC1 is essential for stomatal closure in response to CO2, abscisic acid, ozone, light/dark transitions, humidity change, calcium ions, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide. Mutations in SLAC1 impair slow (S-type) anion channel currents that are activated by cytosolic Ca2+ and abscisic acid, but do not affect rapid (R-type) anion channel currents or Ca2+ channel function. A low homology of SLAC1 to bacterial and fungal organic acid transport proteins, and the permeability of S-type anion channels to malate suggest a vital role for SLAC1 in the function of S-type anion channels.
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- Triin Vahisalu
- Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Light-activated ion channels provide a new opportunity to precisely and remotely control neuronal activity for experimental applications in neurobiology. In the past few years, several strategies have arisen that allow light to control ion channels and therefore neuronal function. Light-based triggers for ion channel control include caged compounds, which release active neurotransmitters when photolyzed with light, and natural photoreceptive proteins, which can be expressed exogenously in neurons. More recently, a third type of light trigger has been introduced: a photoisomerizable tethered ligand that directly controls ion channel activity in a light-dependent manner. Beyond the experimental applications for light-gated ion channels, there may be clinical applications in which these light-sensitive ion channels could prove advantageous over traditional methods. Electrodes for neural stimulation to control disease symptoms are invasive and often difficult to reposition between cells in tissue. Stimulation by chemical agents is difficult to constrain to individual cells and has limited temporal accuracy in tissue due to diffusional limitations. In contrast, ion channels that can be directly activated with light allow control with unparalleled spatial and temporal precision. The goal of this chapter is to describe light-regulated ion channels and how they have been tailored to control different aspects of neural activity, and how to use these channels to manipulate and better understand development, function, and plasticity of neurons and neural circuits.
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- James J Chambers
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9336, USA
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Biella G, Di Febo F, Goffredo D, Moiana A, Taglietti V, Conti L, Cattaneo E, Toselli M. Differentiating embryonic stem–derived neural stem cells show a maturation-dependent pattern of voltage-gated sodium current expression and graded action potentials. Neuroscience 2007; 149:38-52. [PMID: 17870247 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.07.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2007] [Revised: 07/06/2007] [Accepted: 07/18/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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A population of mouse embryonic stem (ES)-derived neural stem cells (named NS cells) that exhibits traits reminiscent of radial glia-like cell population and that can be homogeneously expanded in monolayer while remaining stable and highly neurogenic over multiple passages has been recently discovered. This novel population has provided a unique in vitro system in which to investigate physiological events occurring as stem cells lose multipotency and terminally differentiate. Here we analysed the timing, quality and quantity of the appearance of the excitability properties of differentiating NS cells which have been long-term expanded in vitro. To this end, we studied the biophysical properties of voltage-dependent Na(+) currents as an electrophysiological readout for neuronal maturation stages of differentiating NS cells toward the generation of fully functional neurons, since the expression of neuronal voltage-gated Na(+) channels is an essential hallmark of neuronal differentiation and crucial for signal transmission in the nervous system. Using the whole cell and single-channel cell-attached variations of the patch-clamp technique we found that the Na(+) currents in NS cells showed substantial electrophysiological changes during in vitro neuronal differentiation, consisting mainly in an increase of Na(+) current density and in a shift of the steady-state activation and inactivation curves toward more negative and more positive potentials respectively. The changes in the Na(+) channel system were closely related with the ability of differentiating NS cells to generate action potentials, and could therefore be exploited as an appropriate electrophysiological marker of ES-derived NS cells undergoing functional neuronal maturation.
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- G Biella
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Forlanini 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
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Petrik D, Brenner R. Regulation of STREX exon large conductance, calcium-activated potassium channels by the beta4 accessory subunit. Neuroscience 2007; 149:789-803. [PMID: 17945424 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.07.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2007] [Revised: 06/22/2007] [Accepted: 08/07/2007] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Large conductance (BK-type) calcium-activated potassium channels utilize alternative splicing and association with accessory beta subunits to tailor BK channel properties to diverse cell types. Two important modulators of BK channel gating are the neuronal-specific beta4 accessory subunit (beta4) and alternative splicing at the stress axis hormone-regulated exon (STREX). Individually, these modulators affect the gating properties of the BK channel as well as its response to phosphorylation. In this study, the combined functional consequences of STREX and the mouse beta4 subunit on mouse BK channel biophysical properties were investigated in transfected HEK 293 cells. Surprisingly, we found that the combined effects of STREX and beta4 are non-additive and even opposite for some properties. At high calcium, beta4 and the STREX individually share properties that promote BK channel opening via slowing of deactivation. However, the combined effects are a speeding of deactivation and a decreased open probability. beta4 also inhibits BK channel opening by a slowing of activation. This effect occurs across calcium concentrations in the absence of STREX, but predominates only at low calcium for STREX containing channels. BK channel responses to phosphorylation status are also altered by the combination of the beta4 subunit and STREX. beta4/STREX channels show a slowing of activation kinetics following dephosphorylation whereas beta4 channels lacking STREX do not. In contrast, beta4 confers a speeding of activation in response to cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation in channels lacking STREX, but not in channels containing STREX. These results indicate that the combination of the beta4 subunit and STREX confers non-additive and unique properties to BK channels. Analysis of expression in brain slices suggests that STREX and beta4 mRNA overlap expression in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and the cerebellar Purkinje cells, suggesting that these unique properties of BK channels may underlie BK channel gating in these cells.
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- D Petrik
- Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) synthesizing magnocellular cells (MNCs) in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) display distinct firing patterns during the physiological demands for these hormones. Depolarizing afterpotentials (DAPs) in these neurons are involved in controlling phasic bursting in VP neurons. Our whole cell recordings demonstrated a Cs(+)-resistant fast DAP (fDAP; decay tau = approximately 200 ms), which has not been previously reported, in addition to the well-known Cs(+)-sensitive slower DAP (sDAP; decay tau = approximately 2 s). Immunoidentification of recorded neurons revealed that all VP neurons, but only 20% of OT neurons, expressed the fDAP. The activation of the fDAP required influx of Ca(2+) through voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels as it was strongly suppressed in Ca(2+)-free extracellular solution or by bath application of Cd(2+). Additionally, the current underlying the fDAP (I(fDAP)) is a Ca(2+)-activated current rather than a Ca(2+) current per se as it was abolished by strongly buffering intracellular Ca(2+) with BAPTA. The I-V relationship of the I(fDAP) was linear at potentials less than -60 mV but showed pronounced outward rectification near -50 mV. I(fDAP) is sensitive to changes in extracellular Na(+) and K(+) but not Cl(-). A blocker of Ca(2+)-activated nonselective cation (CAN) currents, flufenamic acid, blocked the fDAP, suggesting the involvement of a CAN current in the generation of fDAP in VP neurons. We speculate that the two DAPs have different roles in generating after burst discharges and could play important roles in determining the distinct firing properties of VP neurons in the SON neurons.
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- Ryoichi Teruyama
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, TN 38163, USA.
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Wang J, Shen B, Roppolo JR, de Groat WC, Tai C. Influence of frequency and temperature on the mechanisms of nerve conduction block induced by high-frequency biphasic electrical current. J Comput Neurosci 2007; 24:195-206. [PMID: 17682929 PMCID: PMC2823070 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-007-0050-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2007] [Revised: 05/31/2007] [Accepted: 07/03/2007] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The influences of stimulation frequency and temperature on mechanisms of nerve conduction block induced by high-frequency biphasic electrical current were investigated using a lumped circuit model of the myelinated axon based on Schwarz and Eikhof (SE) equations. The simulation analysis showed that a temperature-frequency relationship was determined by the axonal membrane dynamics (i.e. how fast the ion channels can open or close.). At a certain temperature, the axonal conduction block always occurred when the period of biphasic stimulation was smaller than the action potential duration (APD). When the temperature decreased from 37 to 15 degrees C, the membrane dynamics slowed down resulting in an APD increase from 0.4 to 2.4 ms accompanied by a decrease in the minimal blocking frequency from 4 to 0.5 kHz. The simulation results also indicated that as the stimulation frequency increased the mechanism of conduction block changed from a cathodal/anodal block to a block dependent upon continuous activation of potassium channels. Understanding the interaction between the minimal blocking frequency and temperature could promote a better understanding of the mechanisms of high frequency induced axonal conduction block and the clinical application of this method for blocking nerve conduction.
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- Jicheng Wang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, W1354 Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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Thomas EA, Xu R, Petrou S. Computational analysis of the R85C and R85H epilepsy mutations in Na+ channel β1 subunits. Neuroscience 2007; 147:1034-46. [PMID: 17604911 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2006] [Revised: 05/11/2007] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mutations in Na+ channels cause a variety of epilepsy syndromes. Analysis of these mutations shows a range of simultaneous functional consequences, each of which may increase or decrease membrane excitability, making it difficult to predict the combined effect on neuron firing. This may be addressed by building mathematical models of Na+ channel gating and using them in neuron models to predict responses to natural stimuli. The R85C and R85H mutations of the beta1 subunit cause generalized epilepsy syndromes in humans, and an experimental study showed that these mutations shift steady-state activation in the negative direction, which predicts increased excitability, and shift fast inactivation in the negative direction, which predicts decreased excitability. In addition, the R85C also shifts slow inactivation in the negative direction. To predict changes in neuron excitability resulting from these contradictory effects we built Na+ channel models based on our earlier data and on new measurements of the rate of slow inactivation over a range of potentials. Use of these Na+ channel models in simple neuron models revealed that both mutations cause an increase in excitability but the R85H mutation was more excitable. This is due to differences in steady-state slow inactivation and to subtle differences in fast kinetics captured by the model fitting process. To understand the effect of changes in different gating processes and to provide a simple guide for interpreting changes caused by mutations, we performed a sensitivity analysis. Using the wild-type model we shifted each activation curve by +/-5 mV or altered gating rates up or down by 20%. Excitability was most sensitive to changes in voltage dependence of activation, followed by voltage dependence of inactivation and then slow inactivation. By contrast, excitability was relatively insensitive to gating rates.
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- E A Thomas
- Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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Raghunathan AV, Aluru NR. Self-consistent molecular dynamics formulation for electric-field-mediated electrolyte transport through nanochannels. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007; 76:011202. [PMID: 17677433 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.76.011202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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A self-consistent molecular dynamics (SCMD) formulation is presented for electric-field-mediated transport of water and ions through a nanochannel connected to reservoirs or baths. The SCMD formulation is compared with a uniform field MD approach, where the applied electric field is assumed to be uniform, for 2nm and 3.5nm wide nanochannels immersed in a 0.5M KCl solution. Reservoir ionic concentrations are maintained using the dual-control-volume grand canonical molecular dynamics technique. Simulation results with varying channel height indicate that the SCMD approach calculates the electrostatic potential in the simulation domain more accurately compared to the uniform field approach, with the deviation in results increasing with the channel height. The translocation times and ionic fluxes predicted by uniform field MD can be substantially different from those predicted by the SCMD approach. Our results also indicate that during a 2ns simulation time K+ ions can permeate through a 1nm channel when the applied electric field is computed self-consistently, while the permeation is not observed when the electric field is assumed to be uniform.
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- A V Raghunathan
- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Seki A, Miyauchi S, Hayashi S, Kikukawa T, Kubo M, Demura M, Ganapathy V, Kamo N. Heterologous expression of Pharaonis halorhodopsin in Xenopus laevis oocytes and electrophysiological characterization of its light-driven Cl- pump activity. Biophys J 2007; 92:2559-69. [PMID: 17208978 PMCID: PMC1864822 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.093153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Natronomonas pharaonis halorhodopsin (pHR) is an archaeal rhodopsin functioning as an inward-directed, light-driven Cl- pump. To characterize the electrophysiological features of the Cl- pump activity of pHR, we expressed pHR in Xenopus laevis oocytes and analyzed its photoinduced Cl- pump activity using the two-electrode voltage-clamp technique. Photoinduced outward currents were observed only in the presence of Cl-, Br-, I-, NO3-, and SCN-, but not in control oocytes, indicating that photoinduced anion currents were mediated by pHR. The relationship between photoinduced Cl- current via pHR and the light intensity was linear, demonstrating that transport of Cl- is driven by a single-photon reaction and that the steady-state current is proportional to the excited pHR molecule. The current-voltage relationship for pHR-mediated photoinduced currents was also linear between -150 mV and +50 mV. The slope of the line describing the current-voltage relationship increased as the number of the excited pHR molecules was increased by the light intensity. The reversal potential (VR) for Cl- as the substrate for the anion pump activity of pHR was about -400 mV. The value for VR was independent of light intensity, meaning that the VR reflects the intrinsic value of the excited pHR molecule. The value of VR changed significantly for the R123K mutant of pHR. We also show that the Cl- pump activity of pHR can generate a substantial negative membrane potential, indicating that pHR is a very potent Cl- pump. We have also analyzed the kinetics of voltage-dependent Cl- pump activity as well as that of the photocycle. Based on these data, a kinetic model for voltage-dependent Cl- transport via pHR is presented.
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- Akiteru Seki
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratory of Biomolecular Systems, Creative Research Initiative Sosei, and Department of Biomolecular Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Platano D, Mesirca P, Paffi A, Pellegrino M, Liberti M, Apollonio F, Bersani F, Aicardi G. Acute exposure to low-level CW and GSM-modulated 900 MHz radiofrequency does not affect Ba2+ currents through voltage-gated calcium channels in rat cortical neurons. Bioelectromagnetics 2007; 28:599-607. [PMID: 17620299 DOI: 10.1002/bem.20345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We have studied the non-thermal effects of radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on Ba(2+) currents (I Ba 2+) through voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCC), recorded in primary cultures of rat cortical neurons using the patch-clamp technique. To assess whether low-level acute RF field exposure could modify the amplitude and/or the voltage-dependence of I Ba 2+, Petri dishes containing cultured neurons were exposed for 1-3 periods of 90 s to 900 MHz RF-EMF continuous wave (CW) or amplitude-modulated according to global system mobile communication standard (GSM) during whole-cell recording. The specific absorption rates (SARs) were 2 W/kg for CW and 2 W/kg (time average value) for GSM-modulated signals, respectively. The results obtained indicate that single or multiple acute exposures to either CW or GSM-modulated 900 MHz RF-EMFs do not significantly alter the current amplitude or the current-voltage relationship of I Ba 2+, through VGCC.
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- Daniela Platano
- Department of Human and General Physiology, University of Bologna, Italy
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Hoffmann J, Villmann C, Werner M, Hollmann M. Investigation via ion pore transplantation of the putative relationship between glutamate receptors and K+ channels. Mol Cell Neurosci 2006; 33:358-70. [PMID: 17011207 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2006.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2006] [Revised: 08/02/2006] [Accepted: 08/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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The pore domains of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) and potassium channels (K(+) channels) show several structural similarities. To test for functional compatibility, we transferred pore regions from prokaryotic, invertebrate, and vertebrate K(+) channels into pharmacologically representative iGluRs and vice versa. Although the chimeric proteins were expressed on the cell surface, only one of 45 pore chimeras showed ion channel function: The kainate receptor subunit GluR6, carrying the pore loop plus adjacent transmembrane domains of the prokaryotic, glutamate-gated, K(+)-selective GluR0, adopted several electrophysiological properties of the donor pore upon pore transplantation. This suggests that, despite structural similarities between iGluR and K(+) channel pores, there is a lack of functional compatibility so that K(+) channel pores cannot be gated by the iGluR gating machinery, and vice versa. However, K(+)-selective pores can be gated in an iGluR sequence environment, given a similar signal transduction mechanism as appears to be present in GluR0.
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- Jutta Hoffmann
- Department of Biochemistry I-Receptor Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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Petrov E, Martinac B. Modulation of channel activity and gadolinium block of MscL by static magnetic fields. Eur Biophys J 2006; 36:95-105. [PMID: 17089151 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-006-0109-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2006] [Revised: 09/18/2006] [Accepted: 10/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The magnetic field of the Earth has for long been known to influence the behaviour and orientation of a variety of living organisms. Experimental studies of the magnetic sense have, however, been impaired by the lack of a plausible cellular and/or molecular mechanism providing meaningful explanation for detection of magnetic fields by these organisms. Recently, mechanosensitive (MS) ion channels have been implied to play a role in magnetoreception. In this study we have investigated the effect of static magnetic fields (SMFs) of moderate intensity on the activity and gadolinium block of MscL, the bacterial MS channel of large conductance, which has served as a model channel to study the basic physical principles of mechanosensory transduction in living cells. In addition to showing that direct application of the magnetic field decreased the activity of the MscL channel, our study demonstrates for the first time that SMFs can reverse the effect of gadolinium, a well-known blocker of MS channels. The results of our study are consistent with a notion that (1) the effects of SMFs on the MscL channels may result from changes in physical properties of the lipid bilayer due to diamagnetic anisotropy of phospholipid molecules and consequently (2) cooperative superdiamagnetism of phospholipid molecules under influence of SMFs could cause displacement of Gd(3+) ions from the membrane bilayer and thus remove the MscL channel block.
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- Evgeny Petrov
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Hamid J, Peloquin JB, Monteil A, Zamponi GW. Determinants of the differential gating properties of Cav3.1 and Cav3.3 T-type channels: a role of domain IV? Neuroscience 2006; 143:717-28. [PMID: 16996222 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2006] [Revised: 08/11/2006] [Accepted: 08/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We have investigated the channel structural determinants that underlie the difference in gating properties of Cav3.1 and Cav3.3 T-type channels, by creating a series of chimeric channel constructs in which the major transmembrane domains were swapped. The chimeras were then expressed in tsA-201 cells and subjected to whole cell patch clamp analysis. Our data reveal that domains I and IV are major determinants of the half-activation potential. Substitution of domain IV was the most important determinant of activation time constant and time constant for recovery from inactivation, with domains I and II mediating a smaller role. In contrast, the carboxy terminal region did not appear to be involved. Determinants of the time constant for inactivation could not be localized to a specific transmembrane domain, but the concomitant substitution of domains I+IV was able to partially confer the inactivation kinetics among the two wild type channels. Our data indicate that the domain IV region mediates an important role in T-type channel activation, whereas multiple channel structural determinants appear to control T-type channel inactivation.
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- J Hamid
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, Canada T2N 4N1
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Bonanni L, Chachar M, Jover-Mengual T, Li H, Jones A, Yokota H, Ofengeim D, Flannery RJ, Miyawaki T, Cho CH, Polster BM, Pypaert M, Hardwick JM, Sensi SL, Zukin RS, Jonas EA. Zinc-dependent multi-conductance channel activity in mitochondria isolated from ischemic brain. J Neurosci 2006; 26:6851-62. [PMID: 16793892 PMCID: PMC4758341 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5444-05.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Transient global ischemia is a neuronal insult that induces delayed cell death. A hallmark event in the early post-ischemic period is enhanced permeability of mitochondrial membranes. The precise mechanisms by which mitochondrial function is disrupted are, as yet, unclear. Here we show that global ischemia promotes alterations in mitochondrial membrane contact points, a rise in intramitochondrial Zn2+, and activation of large, multi-conductance channels in mitochondrial outer membranes by 1 h after insult. Mitochondrial channel activity was associated with enhanced protease activity and proteolytic cleavage of BCL-xL to generate its pro-death counterpart, deltaN-BCL-xL. The findings implicate deltaN-BCL-xL in large, multi-conductance channel activity. Consistent with this, large channel activity was mimicked by introduction of recombinant deltaN-BCL-xL to control mitochondria and blocked by introduction of a functional BCL-xL antibody to post-ischemic mitochondria via the patch pipette. Channel activity was also inhibited by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, indicative of a role for the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) of the outer mitochondrial membrane. In vivo administration of the membrane-impermeant Zn2+ chelator CaEDTA before ischemia or in vitro application of the membrane-permeant Zn2+ chelator tetrakis-(2-pyridylmethyl) ethylenediamine attenuated channel activity, suggesting a requirement for Zn2+. These findings reveal a novel mechanism by which ischemic insults disrupt the functional integrity of the outer mitochondrial membrane and implicate deltaN-BCL-xL and VDAC in the large, Zn2+-dependent mitochondrial channels observed in post-ischemic hippocampal mitochondria.
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Divergence of the Shaker superfamily of voltage-gated (Kv) ion channels early in metazoan evolution created numerous electrical phenotypes that were presumably selected to produce a wide range of excitability characteristics in neurons, myocytes, and other cells. A comparative approach that emphasizes this early radiation provides a comprehensive sampling of sequence space that is necessary to develop generally applicable models of the structure–function relationship in the Kv potassium channel family. We have cloned and characterized two Shaw-type potassium channels from a flatworm ( Notoplana atomata) that is arguably a representative of early diverging bilaterians. When expressed in Xenopus oocytes, one of these cloned channels, N.at-Kv3.1, exhibits a noninactivating, outward current with slow opening kinetics that are dependent on both the holding potential and the activating potential. A second Shaw-type channel, N.at-Kv3.2, has very different properties, showing weak inward rectification. These results demonstrate that broad phylogenetic sampling of proteins of a single family will reveal unexpected properties that lead to new interpretations of structure–function relationships.
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- Tara L Klassen
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1
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Nawarathna D, Claycomb JR, Cardenas G, Gardner J, Warmflash D, Miller JH, Widger WR. Harmonic generation by yeast cells in response to low-frequency electric fields. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2006; 73:051914. [PMID: 16802974 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.73.051914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2006] [Accepted: 03/27/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We report on harmonic generation by budding yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 10(8) cells/ml) in response to sinusoidal electric fields with amplitudes ranging from zero to 5 V/cm in the frequency range 10-300 Hz. The cell-generated harmonics are found to exhibit strong amplitude and frequency dependence. Sodium metavanadate, an inhibitor of the proton pump known as H+-ATPase, and glucose, a substrate of H+-ATPase, are found to increase harmonic production at low amplitudes while reducing it at large amplitudes. This P-type proton pump can be driven by an oscillatory transmembrane potential, and its nonlinear response is believed to be largely responsible for harmonic production at low frequencies in yeast cells. We find that the observed harmonics show dramatic changes with time and in their field and frequency dependence after perturbing the system by adding an inhibitor, substrate, or membrane depolarizer to the cell suspension.
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- D Nawarathna
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5005, USA
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Vinogradova I, Cook A, Holden-Dye L. The ionic dependence of voltage-activated inward currents in the pharyngeal muscle of Caenorhabditis elegans. Invert Neurosci 2006; 6:57-68. [PMID: 16622683 DOI: 10.1007/s10158-006-0018-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2006] [Accepted: 03/22/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The pharynx of Caenorhabditis elegans consists of a syncytium of radially orientated muscle cells that contract synchronously and rhythmically to ingest and crush bacteria and pump them into the intestine of the animal. The action potentials that support this activity are superficially similar to vertebrate cardiac action potentials in appearance with a long, calcium-dependent plateau phase. Although the pharyngeal muscle can generate action potentials in the absence of external calcium ions, action potentials are absent when sodium is removed from the extracellullar solution (Franks et al. 2002). Here we have used whole cell patch clamp recordings from the pharynx and show low voltage-activated inward currents that are present in zero external calcium and reduced in zero external sodium ions. Whilst the lack of effect of zero calcium when sodium ions are present is not surprising in view of the known permeability of voltage-gated calcium channels to sodium ions, the reduction in current in zero sodium when calcium ions are present is harder to explain in terms of a conventional voltage-gated calcium channel. Inward currents were also recorded from egl-19 (n582) which has a loss of function mutation in the pharyngeal L-type calcium channel and these were also markedly reduced in zero external sodium. Despite this apparent dependence on external sodium ions, the current was partially blocked by the divalent cations, cadmium, barium and nickel. Using single-channel recordings we identified a cation channel for which the open-time duration was increased by depolarisation. In inside-out patches, the single-channel conductance was highest in symmetrical sodium solution. Further studies are required to determine the contribution of these channels to the pharyngeal action potential.
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- Irina Vinogradova
- Neurosciences Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, Bassett Crescent East, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX, UK
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Machu TK, Dillon GH, Huang R, Lovinger DM, Leidenheimer NJ. Temperature: an important experimental variable in studying PKC modulation of ligand-gated ion channels. Brain Res 2006; 1086:1-8. [PMID: 16626662 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2005] [Revised: 12/14/2005] [Accepted: 01/20/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Amphibian oocyte and mammalian heterologous expression systems are often used to investigate the function of recombinant ion channels using electrophysiological techniques. Although both systems have yielded important information, the results obtained in these systems are sometimes conflicting. Oocytes and mammalian cells differ in their physiological temperature requirements. While room temperature is within the physiological temperature range for oocytes, this temperature is far below that required by mammalian cells. Since electrophysiological studies are often performed in both oocytes and mammalian cells at room temperature, we sought to determine if recording temperature could be a factor in some disparate results obtained in these cell types. For these studies, we examined phorbol ester modulation of GABA(A) and glycine receptors. Consistent with the literature, at room temperature, PMA (phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate) produced a large reproducible decrease in the peak amplitude of GABA and glycine-gated currents in Xenopus oocytes. In contrast, PMA was ineffective in modulating these heterologously expressed receptors at room temperature in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells. However, when electrophysiological experiments were performed at 35 degrees C in HEK 293 cells, PMA decreased the function of these receptors. Our results indicate that the temperature at which electrophysiological studies are conducted is an important experimental variable. To determine the extent to which electrophysiological recordings are performed at physiological temperatures in HEK 293 cells, a PubMed search was conducted using the search terms "patch clamp" and "HEK" for the years 2003-2004. This search revealed that only 15% of the patch clamp studies were reported to have been conducted in the temperature range of 32-37 degrees C. The results of our study indicate that temperature is an important experimental variable that requires rational consideration in the design of electrophysiological experiments.
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- Tina K Machu
- Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Forth Worth, 76203-1067, USA
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