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G protein coupling profile of mGluR6 and expression of Gα proteins in retinal ON bipolar cells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2007

LIANTIAN TIAN  and
PAUL J. KAMMERMEIER
LIANTIAN TIAN
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio
PAUL J. KAMMERMEIER
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
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Abstract

Metabotropic glutamate receptor 6 (mGluR6) is a group III, pertussis toxin (PTX)-sensitive G protein coupled mGluR that plays a specialized role in the retina. Retinal ON bipolar cells, which receive direct glutamatergic input from photoreceptor cells, express mGluR6 as their primary postsynaptic glutamate receptor. Activation of mGluR6 in these cells initiates an intracellular signaling cascade ultimately leading to inhibition of a cation channel and cell hyperpolarization. The primary mediator of this pathway in vivo is Gαo, but the potential roles of other G proteins from the Gαi/o family in the regulation of this or other signaling pathways in ON bipolar cells are unclear. To determine which specific G proteins from the Gαi/o family are able to couple to mGluR6, a Gα reconstitution system was employed using PTX-insensitive Gα mutants expressed with mGluR6 in PTX-treated sympathetic neurons from the rat superior cervical ganglion (SCG). The efficiency of coupling to mGluR6 was Goa > Gob, Gi1 > Gi2, Gi3, whereas no coupling was observed with Gαz, nor with the retinal Gα proteins, rod (GNAT2) or cone (GNAT1) transducin (GαTr-R, GαTr-C). Finally, the expression of Gα proteins determined to couple with mGluR6 was examined in rat ON bipolar cells using single cell RT-PCR. Co-expression of mGluR6 message was used to distinguish ON from OFF bipolar cells. Expression of Gαo was detected in every ON bipolar cell examined. Message for Gαi1, which coupled moderately to mGluR6, was not detected in ON bipolar cells, nor was Gαi3, which coupled to mGluR6 in only a few cells but on average did not exhibit statistically significant coupling. Finally, though Gαi2 was detectable in ON bipolar cells, its coupling to mGluR6 in the SCG system was not significant. Together, these data indicate that signaling through mGluR6 in mammalian ON bipolar cells is highly focused, apparently acting through a single Gα protein subtype.

Keywords

mGluRRetinaPertussis toxinG protein Coupled receptor
Type
Research Article
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , November 2006 , pp. 909 - 916
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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