Subunit-specific action of an anticonvulsant thiobutyrolactone on recombinant glycine receptors involves a residue in the M2 membrane-spanning region

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Steinbach, JH
Bracamontes, J
Yu, L
Zhang, PN
Covey, DF
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[1] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Anesthesiol, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[2] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Mol Biol & Pharmacol, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
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10.1124/mol.58.1.11
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R9 [药学];
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The anticonvulsant alpha-ethyl, alpha-methyl-gamma-thiobutyrolactone (alpha EMTBL) potentiates the response to a submaximal concentration of glycine produced by receptors composed of human glycine alpha 1-subunits but reduces the response of receptors composed of rat glycine alpha 3-subunits. Both the potentiating and blocking actions of alpha EMTBL are reduced by higher concentrations of glycine. The subunit specificity of alpha EMTBL block is conferred by a residue in the second membrane-spanning region (M2), which is alanine in the alpha 3-subunit (A254) and glycine in the alpha 1-subunit. The mutation A254G in the alpha 3-subunit removes blocking by alpha EMTBL and reveals potentiation. Picrotin, a picrotoxinin analog, blocks responses of receptors composed of either alpha 1 or alpha 3-subunits. Blocking of alpha 3 receptors by picrotin is reduced in the presence of alpha EMTBL, indicating that the mechanisms interact at some point, but the mutation alpha 3 A254G does not remove block by picrotin. However, mutation of a nearby residue alpha 3 T258F does remove block by picrotin, picrotoxinin and alpha EMTBL. These observations suggest that alpha EMTBL and picrotin act on glycine alpha 3 receptors to produce block by an allosteric mechanism that involves overlapping sets of residues in the M2 region. Coexpression of the alpha 3subunit with the beta-subunit of the glycine receptor also removes block by alpha EMTBL and reveals potentiation, suggesting that receptors containing either alpha 3 or alpha 1 glycine receptor subunits are potentiated in the adult brain.
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