McGee, TP;
Bats, C;
Farrant, M;
Cull-Candy, SG;
(2015)
Auxiliary Subunit GSG1L Acts to Suppress Calcium-Permeable AMPA Receptor Function.
Journal of Neuroscience
, 35
(49)
pp. 16171-16179.
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2152-15.2015.
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Abstract
UNLABELLED: AMPA-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated cation channels responsible for a majority of the fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain. Their behavior and calcium permeability depends critically on their subunit composition and the identity of associated auxiliary proteins. Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors (CP-AMPARs) contribute to various forms of synaptic plasticity, and their dysfunction underlies a number of serious neurological conditions. For CP-AMPARs, the prototypical transmembrane AMPAR regulatory protein stargazin, which acts as an auxiliary subunit, enhances receptor function by increasing single-channel conductance, slowing channel gating, increasing calcium permeability, and relieving the voltage-dependent block by endogenous intracellular polyamines. We find that, in contrast, GSG1L, a transmembrane auxiliary protein identified recently as being part of the AMPAR proteome, acts to reduce the weighted mean single-channel conductance and calcium permeability of recombinant CP-AMPARs, while increasing polyamine-dependent rectification. To examine the effects of GSG1L on native AMPARs, we manipulated its expression in cerebellar and hippocampal neurons. Transfection of GSG1L into mouse cultured cerebellar stellate cells that lack this protein increased the inward rectification of mEPSCs. Conversely, shRNA-mediated knockdown of endogenous GSG1L in rat cultured hippocampal pyramidal neurons led to an increase in mEPSC amplitude and in the underlying weighted mean single-channel conductance, revealing that GSG1L acts to suppress current flow through native CP-AMPARs. Thus, our data suggest that GSG1L extends the functional repertoire of AMPAR auxiliary subunits, which can act not only to enhance but also diminish current flow through their associated AMPARs. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors (CP-AMPARs) are an important group of receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate. These receptors contribute to various forms of synaptic plasticity, and alterations in their expression or regulation are also seen in a number of serious neurological conditions, including stroke, motor neuron disease, and cocaine addiction. Several groups of auxiliary transmembrane proteins have been described that enhance the function and cell-surface expression of AMPARs. We now report that the recently identified auxiliary protein GSG1L decreases weighted mean channel conductance and calcium permeability of CP-AMPARs while increasing polyamine-dependent rectification by diminishing outward current. Our experiments reveal that GSG1L is an auxiliary subunit that can markedly suppress CP-AMPAR function, in both recombinant systems and central neurons.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Auxiliary Subunit GSG1L Acts to Suppress Calcium-Permeable AMPA Receptor Function |
Location: | United States |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2152-15.2015 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2152-15.2015 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. |
Keywords: | GSG1L, auxiliary AMPAR subunits, calcium-permeable AMPARs, glutamatergic synapses, polyamine block, single channels, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Calcium, Cells, Cultured, Claudins, Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, Female, Glutamic Acid, Hippocampus, Humans, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neurons, Nicotinic Antagonists, Polyamines, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Receptors, AMPA, Spermine |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1481950 |
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