GABAA receptor subunit polypeptides increase in parallel but exhibit distinct distributions in the developing rat cerebellum
| Autor: | Ruth Elise Siegel, Laurie S. Nadler, Eman R. Guirguis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Cerebral Cortex
education.field_of_study Cerebellum GABAA receptor General Neuroscience Protein subunit Molecular Sequence Data Population Interleukin 5 receptor alpha subunit Biology Receptors GABA-A Immunohistochemistry Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-1 Molecular biology Rats GABAA-rho receptor Interleukin 10 receptor alpha subunit Rats Sprague-Dawley Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience medicine.anatomical_structure Carbohydrate Sequence medicine Animals education |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Neurobiology. 25:1533-1544 |
| ISSN: | 1097-4695 0022-3034 |
| Popis: | The GABAA receptor, a multisubunit ligand-gated ion channel, plays a central role in cell-cell communication in the developing and adult nervous system. Although the developmental expression of mRNAs encoding many subunit isoforms has been extensively characterized throughout the central nervous system, little is known concerning the relationship between subunit mRNA and polypeptide expression. To address this issue, we examined the developmental expression of the alpha 1, beta 2/3, and gamma 2 subunit polypeptides, subunits that are thought to coassemble in many brain regions. Western blot analysis using subunit-specific antibodies revealed that the levels of these polypeptides in both the cerebral cortex and cerebellum increased severalfold during the second postnatal week. Whereas polypeptide expression in the cerebellum paralleled that of the corresponding subunit mRNAs, increases in beta 2/3 and gamma 2 polypeptide expression in the cerebral cortex occurred in the absence of detectable changes in the mRNA levels. To determine whether the increases in subunit polypeptide expression in the cerebellum were accompanied by changes in distribution, immunohistochemistry was performed. These studies demonstrated that the subunits exhibited different but partially overlapping distributions that remained constant throughout postnatal development. Our findings suggest that although GABAA receptor subunit polypeptide expression may be regulated primarily at the level of the mRNA, additional regulatory mechanisms may play a role. Furthermore, the observation that subunit distribution remains constant in the cell bodies of cerebellar Purkinje neurons, which express the alpha 1, beta 2, beta 3, and gamma 2 subunit mRNAs exclusively, suggests that GABAA receptor subunit composition in this cell population does not change during postnatal maturation. |
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