Publication Date:
2009-03-07
Description:
Glutamate receptors of the AMPA-subtype (AMPARs), together with the transmembrane AMPAR regulatory proteins (TARPs), mediate fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain. Here, we show by proteomic analysis that the majority of AMPARs in the rat brain are coassembled with two members of the cornichon family of transmembrane proteins, rather than with the TARPs. Coassembly with cornichon homologs 2 and 3 affects AMPARs in two ways: Cornichons increase surface expression of AMPARs, and they alter channel gating by markedly slowing deactivation and desensitization kinetics. These results demonstrate that cornichons are intrinsic auxiliary subunits of native AMPARs and provide previously unknown molecular determinants for glutamatergic neurotransmission in the central nervous system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schwenk, Jochen -- Harmel, Nadine -- Zolles, Gerd -- Bildl, Wolfgang -- Kulik, Akos -- Heimrich, Bernd -- Chisaka, Osamu -- Jonas, Peter -- Schulte, Uwe -- Fakler, Bernd -- Klocker, Nikolaj -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Mar 6;323(5919):1313-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1167852.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Physiology II, University of Freiburg, Engesserstrasse 4, 79108 Freiburg, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19265014" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain/cytology/*metabolism
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Cell Membrane/metabolism
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Glutamic Acid/metabolism
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Immunohistochemistry
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*Ion Channel Gating
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Kinetics
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Membrane Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Mice
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Neurons/*metabolism
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Patch-Clamp Techniques
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Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism
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Proteomics
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Rats
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Receptors, AMPA/chemistry/*metabolism
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Signal Transduction
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Synapses/metabolism
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*Synaptic Transmission
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Xenopus
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
