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Kerry CJ, Kits KS, Ramsey RL, Sansom MS, Usherwood PN. Single channel kinetics of a glutamate receptor. Biophys J 2010; 50:367-74. [PMID: 19431683 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(86)83470-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The glutamate receptor-channel of locust muscle membrane was studied using the patch-clamp technique. Muscles were pretreated with concanavalin A to block receptor-channel desensitization, thus facilitating analysis of receptor-channel gating kinetics. Single channel kinetics were analyzed to aid in identification of the molecular basis of channel gating. Channel dwell-time distributions and dwell-time autocorrelation functions were calculated from single channel data recorded in the presence of 10(-4) M glutamate. Analysis of the dwell time distributions in terms of mixtures of exponential functions revealed there to be at least three open states of the receptor-channel and at least four closed states. Autocorrelation function analysis showed there to be at least three pathways linking the open states with the closed. This results in a minimal scheme for gating of the glutamate receptor-channel, which is suggestive of allosteric models of receptor-channel gating.
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Kerry CJ, Ramsey RL, Sansom MS, Usherwood PN. Glutamate receptor channel kinetics: the effect of glutamate concentration. Biophys J 2010; 53:39-52. [PMID: 19431716 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(88)83064-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Single channel recordings from the locust muscle D-glutamate receptor channel were obtained using glutamate concentrations ranging from 10(-6) to 10(-2) M. Channel kinetics were analyzed to aid in the development of a model for the gating mechanism. Analysis of channel dwell time histograms demonstrated that the channel possessed multiple open and closed states at concentrations of glutamate between 10(-5) and 10(-2) M. Correlations between successive dwell times showed that the gating mechanism was nonlinear (i.e., branched or cyclic) over the same glutamate concentration range. The glutamate concentration dependence of the channel open probability, and of the event frequency, was used to explore two possible allosteric gating mechanisms in more detail.
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Vornanen M, Stecyk JA, Nilsson GE. Chapter 9 The Anoxia-Tolerant Crucian Carp (Carassius Carassius L.). FISH PHYSIOLOGY 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1546-5098(08)00009-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Sinakevitch I, Sjöholm M, Hansson BS, Strausfeld NJ. Global and local modulatory supply to the mushroom bodies of the moth Spodoptera littoralis. ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT 2008; 37:260-272. [PMID: 18406668 PMCID: PMC4876857 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2008.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2007] [Revised: 01/05/2008] [Accepted: 01/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The moth Spodoptera littoralis, is a major pest of agriculture whose olfactory system is tuned to odorants emitted by host plants and conspecifics. As in other insects, the paired mushroom bodies are thought to play pivotal roles in behaviors that are elicited by contextual and multisensory signals, amongst which those of specific odors dominate. Compared with species that have elaborate behavioral repertoires, such as the honey bee Apis mellifera or the cockroach Periplaneta americana, the mushroom bodies of S. littoralis were originally viewed as having a simple cellular organization. This has been since challenged by observations of putative transmitters and neuromodulators. As revealed by immunocytology, the spodopteran mushroom bodies, like those of other taxa, are subdivided longitudinally into discrete neuropil domains. Such divisions are further supported by the present study, which also demonstrates discrete affinities to different mushroom body neuropils by antibodies raised against two putative transmitters, glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid, and against three putative neuromodulatory substances: serotonin, A-type allatostatin, and tachykinin-related peptides. The results suggest that in addition to longitudinal divisions of the lobes, circuits in the calyces and lobes are likely to be independently modulated.
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- Irina Sinakevitch
- IBDML-UMR 6216, Case 907 Parc Scientifique de Luminy, 13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France
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- Department of Crop Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-23053, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Hans-Knoell-Strasse 8, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology and Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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Shinohara T, Harada M, Ogi K, Maruyama M, Fujii R, Tanaka H, Fukusumi S, Komatsu H, Hosoya M, Noguchi Y, Watanabe T, Moriya T, Itoh Y, Hinuma S. Identification of a G Protein-coupled Receptor Specifically Responsive to β-Alanine. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:23559-64. [PMID: 15037633 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m314240200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We isolated a cDNA encoding an orphan G protein-coupled receptor, TGR7, which has been recently reported to correspond to MrgD. To search for ligands for TGR7, we screened a series of small molecule compounds by detecting the Ca2+ influx in Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing TGR7. Through this screening, we found that beta-alanine at micromolar doses specifically evoked Ca2+ influx in cells expressing human, rat, or mouse TGR7. A structural analogue, gamma-aminobutyric acid, weakly stimulated cells expressing human or rat TGR7, but another analogue, glycine, did not. In addition, beta-alanine decreased forskolin-stimulated cAMP production in cells expressing TGR7, suggesting that TGR7 couples with G proteins Gq and Gi. In guanosine 5'-O-3-thiotriphosphate binding assays conducted using a membrane fraction of cells expressing TGR7, beta-alanine specifically increased the binding of guanosine 5'-O-3-thiotriphosphate. When a fusion protein composed of TGR7 and green fluorescent protein was expressed in cells, it localized at the plasma membrane but internalized into the cytoplasm after treatment with beta-alanine. In addition, we found that beta-[3H]alanine more efficiently bound to TGR7-expressing cells than to control cells. From these results, we concluded that TGR7 functioned as a specific membrane receptor for beta-alanine. Quantitative PCR analysis revealed that TGR7 mRNA was predominantly expressed in the dorsal root ganglia in rats. By in situ hybridization and immunostaining, we confirmed that TGR7 mRNA was co-expressed in the small diameter neurons with P2X3 and VR1, both in rat and monkey dorsal root ganglia. Our results suggest that TGR7 participates in the modulation of neuropathic pain.
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- Tokuyuki Shinohara
- Discovery Research Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Research Division, Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., 10 Wadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-4293, Japan
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While medical science has struggled to find ways to counteract anoxic brain damage with limited success, evolution has repeatedly solved this problem. The best-studied examples of anoxia-tolerant vertebrates are the crucian carp and some North American Freshwater turtles. These can survive anoxia for days to months, depending of temperature. Both animals successfully fight any major fall in brain ATP levels, but the strategies they use to accomplish this are quite divergent. The anoxic turtle suppresses brain activity to such a degree that it becomes virtually comatose. The underlying mechanisms involve closing down ion conductances and releasing GABA and adenosine. By contrast, the crucian carp remains active in anoxia, although it suppresses selected brain functions, and avoids lactate self-poisoning by producing an exotic anaerobic end-product. These animals provide unique models for studying anoxic survival mechanisms both on a molecular and physiological level.
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- Göran E Nilsson
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Umesh A, Gill SS. Immunocytochemical localization of a Manduca sexta gamma-aminobutyric acid transporter. J Comp Neurol 2002; 448:388-98. [PMID: 12115701 DOI: 10.1002/cne.10271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in insect central and peripheral nervous systems. Although much work has focused on the downstream targets of GABA, signal termination at insect GABAergic synapses has received very little attention. One of the major mechanisms of terminating synaptic transmission involves transport of the neurotransmitter molecules into presynaptic neurons or surrounding glia. Here we report the immunolocalization of a GABA transporter in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (MasGAT), using an affinity-purified antibody developed to the C-terminus. This is the first demonstration of an insect neurotransmitter transporter immunolocalization study. Results showed strong staining in the neuropil regions of embryonic, larval, and pharate adult central nervous system. Expression pattern in the pharate adult brain mostly mimicked that observed for GABA, with staining in parts of the optic and antennal lobes, mushroom body, lateral protocerebrum, and central complex. Certain longitudinal and lateral connectives of ganglia were observed to have immunostained fibers representing axons. These data support the view that GABA is involved in visual and olfactory processing in the insect brain.
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- Anita Umesh
- Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Lipkin A, Kozlov S, Nosyreva E, Blake A, Windass JD, Grishin E. Novel insecticidal toxins from the venom of the spider Segestria florentina. Toxicon 2002; 40:125-30. [PMID: 11689233 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-0101(01)00181-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Three insecticidal polypeptide toxins (F5.5, F5.6, F5.7) with molecular masses 4973, 4993 and 5159Da were isolated from the venom of the central Asian spider Segestria florentina. These toxins caused the complete flaccid paralysis of Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae (LD(50) 4-10 microg/g), whereas they were inactive upon intravenous injections into mice. On the basis of N-terminal amino acid sequences a family of eight genes encoding highly homologues polypeptides (SFI1-SFI8) was revealed, some of which encode polypeptides actually demonstrated to be present in S. florentina venom. All deduced polypeptides consist of 46 amino acids residues. Comparison of primary structures of SFI1-SFI8 with other spider toxins suggests that this family might share structural and functional relationships with other small spider neurotoxins, several of which are known to be highly selective agonists/antagonists of different voltage-dependent Ca(2+) channels.
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- A Lipkin
- Laboratory of Neuroreceptors and Neuroregulators, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Wicher D, Walther C, Wicher C. Non-synaptic ion channels in insects--basic properties of currents and their modulation in neurons and skeletal muscles. Prog Neurobiol 2001; 64:431-525. [PMID: 11301158 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0082(00)00066-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Insects are favoured objects for studying information processing in restricted neuronal networks, e.g. motor pattern generation or sensory perception. The analysis of the underlying processes requires knowledge of the electrical properties of the cells involved. These properties are determined by the expression pattern of ionic channels and by the regulation of their function, e.g. by neuromodulators. We here review the presently available knowledge on insect non-synaptic ion channels and ionic currents in neurons and skeletal muscles. The first part of this article covers genetic and structural informations, the localization of channels, their electrophysiological and pharmacological properties, and known effects of second messengers and modulators such as neuropeptides or biogenic amines. In a second part we describe in detail modulation of ionic currents in three particularly well investigated preparations, i.e. Drosophila photoreceptor, cockroach DUM (dorsal unpaired median) neuron and locust jumping muscle. Ion channel structures are almost exclusively known for the fruitfly Drosophila, and most of the information on their function has also been obtained in this animal, mainly based on mutational analysis and investigation of heterologously expressed channels. Now the entire genome of Drosophila has been sequenced, it seems almost completely known which types of channel genes--and how many of them--exist in this animal. There is much knowledge of the various types of channels formed by 6-transmembrane--spanning segments (6TM channels) including those where four 6TM domains are joined within one large protein (e.g. classical Na+ channel). In comparison, two TM channels and 4TM (or tandem) channels so far have hardly been explored. There are, however, various well characterized ionic conductances, e.g. for Ca2+, Cl- or K+, in other insect preparations for which the channels are not yet known. In some of the larger insects, i.e. bee, cockroach, locust and moth, rather detailed information has been established on the role of ionic currents in certain physiological or behavioural contexts. On the whole, however, knowledge of non-synaptic ion channels in such insects is still fragmentary. Modulation of ion currents usually involves activation of more or less elaborate signal transduction cascades. The three detailed examples for modulation presented in the second part indicate, amongst other things, that one type of modulator usually leads to concerted changes of several ion currents and that the effects of different modulators in one type of cell may overlap. Modulators participate in the adaptive changes of the various cells responsible for different physiological or behavioural states. Further study of their effects on the single cell level should help to understand how small sets of cells cooperate in order to produce the appropriate output.
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- D Wicher
- Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Arbeitsgruppe Neurohormonale Wirkungsmechanismen, Erbertstr. 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
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Becherer C, Schmid A. Distribution of γ-aminobutyric acid-, proctolin-, Periplaneta hypertrehalosaemic hormone- and FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity in the visual ganglia of the spider Cupiennius salei Keys. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(99)00010-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Tan CH, Ng FH. High and low affinity transport of L-arginine in rat brain synaptosomes. EXPERIENTIA 1995; 51:1052-4. [PMID: 7498443 DOI: 10.1007/bf01946914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The uptake of L-arginine into purified rat brain synaptosomes was investigated with respect to time and various concentrations of L-[3H]arginine. Specific uptake was found to be linear with time for up to 5 min of incubation at 37 degrees C. Electrolytes, including sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride and calcium chloride, inhibited uptake of 3 microM L-arginine, and the inhibitory effect increased with increased electrolyte concentration under constant osmolarity. It was found that L-arginine was transported into synaptosomes by two uptake components--a high affinity component (3.5 microM) and a low affinity component (100 microM). These two components were similar to the Ly+ system because of their extreme sensitivity to inhibition by L-lysine and L-ornithine but were distinguishable from each other by kinetic analysis of the uptake data and by their relative sensitivity to inhibition by several amino acids.
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- C H Tan
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Mueller AL, Roeloffs R, Jackson H. Chapter 2 Pharmacology of Polyamine Toxins from Spiders and Wasps. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0099-9598(08)60286-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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Nilsson GE, Lutz PL. Role of GABA in hypoxia tolerance, metabolic depression and hibernation--possible links to neurotransmitter evolution. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. C, COMPARATIVE PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY 1993; 105:329-36. [PMID: 7900957 DOI: 10.1016/0742-8413(93)90069-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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1. The roles of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA and the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate in anoxic survival and anoxic death are discussed, with particular reference to the brain. 2. It is pointed out that the metabolic relationship between GABA and glutamate causes the neural levels of GABA to increase and glutamate to decrease during anoxia. 3. It is suggested that increased levels of GABA could mediate metabolic depression, and, thus, anoxic survival in ectothermic as well as endothermic vertebrates. Furthermore, evidence for a role of GABA in hibernation is discussed. 4. A hypothesis is presented suggesting that hypoxia has been a selective pressure in conserving GABA and glutamate as major inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters in vertebrates as well as invertebrates.
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- G E Nilsson
- Department of Zoophysiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Homberg U, Bleick A, Rathmayer W. Immunocytochemistry of GABA and glutamic acid decarboxylase in the thoracic ganglion of the crab Eriphia spinifrons. Cell Tissue Res 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00318614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Usherwood PN, Mellor I, Breedon L, Harvey RJ, Barnard EA, Darlison MG. Channels formed by M2 peptides of a putative glutamate receptor subunit of locust. EXS 1993; 63:241-9. [PMID: 7678527 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-7265-2_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A cDNA encoding part of a polypeptide (Loc1) that exhibits similarity to the corresponding portion of the rat GluR1 subunit has been identified by screening an amplified locust cDNA library. This polypeptide is deduced to be missing about 200 amino acids of the amino-terminus and about 100 amino acids of the carboxy-terminus. cDNAs encoding two other glutamate receptor-like polypeptides (Loc2 and Loc3), which both exhibit good sequence homology with Loc1, have also been identified. So far, there is no evidence for 'flip' and 'flop' variants of Loc1, 2 and 3. A 27-mer peptide including the M1 sequence of Loc1 and a 25-mer peptide including the M2 sequence of this putative glutamate receptor subunit have been synthesised and incorporated into artificial bilayers. Channel openings, of minimum conductance 20 pS, were seen more frequently with the M2 peptide. These studies are designed to lead to the isolation of full-length cDNAs for Loc1, 2 and 3 and to the electrophysiological characterisation of their ion transport properties.
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- P N Usherwood
- Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham, England
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Usherwood PN, Blagbrough IS. Spider toxins affecting glutamate receptors: polyamines in therapeutic neurochemistry. Pharmacol Ther 1991; 52:245-68. [PMID: 1667954 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(91)90012-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Polyamine amide toxins obtained from venous of spiders and wasps interact selectively with ionotropic glutamate receptors (GLU-R) of vertebrate central nervous systems. The sites and modes of action of these polyamine amide toxins are reviewed with particular reference to their structure-activity relationships. Qualitatively, their effects on GLU-R are identical to those exerted by polyamines such as spermine, but the polyamine amides are more potent. These compounds (a) potentiate and (b) antagonize GLU-R, the latter arising through open channel block. For the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor this non-competitive antagonism probably arises through binding of toxin to the Mg2+ site(s) located in the channel gated by this receptor. Similarities and differences between GLU-R in vertebrates and in invertebrates with respect to their interactions with polyamines and polyamine amide toxins are discussed. In both groups the low specificity of these compounds is illustrated by their antagonism at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in addition to GLU-R. Electrophysiological studies, including those employing Xenopus oocytes, are reviewed and future prospects for the use of polyamine amides in therapy are discussed.
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- P N Usherwood
- Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham, U.K
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Schuster CM, Ultsch A, Schloss P, Cox JA, Schmitt B, Betz H. Molecular cloning of an invertebrate glutamate receptor subunit expressed in Drosophila muscle. Science 1991; 254:112-4. [PMID: 1681587 DOI: 10.1126/science.1681587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Insects and other invertebrates use glutamate as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and at the neuromuscular junction. A complementary DNA from Drosophila melanogaster, designated DGluR-II, has been isolated that encodes a distant homolog of the cloned mammalian ionotropic glutamate receptor family and is expressed in somatic muscle tissue of Drosophila embryos. Electrophysiological recordings made in Xenopus oocytes that express DGluR-II revealed depolarizing responses to L-glutamate and L-aspartate but low sensitivity to quisqualate, alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA), and kainate. The DGluR-II protein may represent a distinct glutamate receptor subtype, which shares its structural design with other members of the ionotropic glutamate receptor family.
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- C M Schuster
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Universität Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Kanzaki R, Arbas EA, Hildebrand JG. Physiology and morphology of protocerebral olfactory neurons in the male moth Manduca sexta. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1991; 168:281-98. [PMID: 2066906 DOI: 10.1007/bf00198348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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1. We have used intracellular recording and staining with Lucifer Yellow, followed by reconstruction from serial sections, to characterize the responses and structure of olfactory neurons in the protocerebrum (PC) of the brain of the male sphinx moth Manduca sexta. 2. Many olfactory protocerebral neurons (PCNs) innervate a particular neuropil region lateral to the central body, the lateral accessory lobe (LAL), which appears to be important for processing olfactory information. 3. Each LAL is linked by its constituent neurons to the ipsilateral lateral PC, where projection neurons from the antennal lobe terminate, as well as to other regions of the PC. The LALs are also linked to each other by bilateral neurons with arborizations in each LAL. 4. Some PC neurons showed long-lasting excitation (LLE) that outlasted the olfactory stimuli by greater than or equal to 1 s, and as long as 30 s in some preparations. LLE was more frequently elicited by the sex-pheromone blend than by individual pheromone components. All bilateral neurons that showed LLE had arborizations in the LALs. LLE responses were also recorded in a single local neuron innervating the mushroom body. 5. In some other PC neurons, pheromonal stimuli elicited brief excitations that recovered to background firing rates less than 1 s after stimulation.
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- R Kanzaki
- Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Canonaco M, Bergamo P, Tavolaro R, Miralto A. Role of the GABA chloride ion channel component on aggressive behavior in the male crab. Physiol Behav 1991; 49:411-5. [PMID: 1648238 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90257-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Picrotoxin blocking effects on GABA-induced inhibition of lateral merus display in the male crab Carcinus mediterraneus suggest that the chloride ion channel component of the GABA molecule is involved in the control of this defensive behavior. The low GABA doses (3 and 5 micrograms/g body weight) inhibited lateral merus display as early as 10 min after drug treatment while the administration of higher GABA concentrations (greater than 5 micrograms/g) prolonged the duration of the behavioral effects. The administration of 1 microgram/g picrotoxin to the animals treated with the effective GABA doses (5, 10 and 20 micrograms/g) restored lateral merus display. The antagonizing activity of picrotoxin on the inhibitory GABA effects, in a temporal manner, demonstrates that GABAergic sites other than peripheral ones are probably participating with the regulation of this agonistic posture. Quantitative autoradiography results revealed interesting receptor levels changes of the specific chloride ion channel antagonist [35S] t-butylbicyclophosphorothionate in the different brain areas of the male crab displaying lateral merus with respect to normal nonreactive animals. Elevated receptor binding levels were encountered in the middle and posterior brain area whereas low levels were obtained at the anterior level. Both the behavioral and autoradiographic results suggest that the defensive type of aggression behavior in crustacean may not only be mediated by a peripherally controlled GABA-gated chloride ion flux but also by a central GABAergic mechanism.
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- M Canonaco
- Dipartimento di Ecologia, Università della Calabria, Roges di Rende (CS), Italy
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Gray SR, Batstone FR, Santiapillai NF, Richardson PJ. Solubilization and purification of a putative quisqualate-sensitive glutamate receptor from crustacean muscle. Biochem J 1991; 273(Pt 1):165-71. [PMID: 1671202 PMCID: PMC1149894 DOI: 10.1042/bj2730165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Two high-affinity glutamate-binding proteins have been solubilized and purified from crustacean muscle membranes. L-[3H]Glutamate binding to intact membranes gave IC50 values (concn. giving 50% inhibition) of 0.35 microM for glutamate. 9.0 microM for quisqualate and 36.2 microM for ibotenic acid. Kainate, domoate, N-methyl-D-aspartate, alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate, D-glutamate and L-aspartate were poor inhibitors of glutamate binding. The two protein were purified approx. 600-fold from muscle membranes by use of concanavalin A and gel-filtration column chromatography. One protein showed an apparent Stokes radius of 5.4 nm, as determined by gel filtration, with a subunit of Mr 74000 as shown by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Analysis of glutamate binding to this protein revealed a KD of 2.4 microM and a Bmax, of 15.5 nmol/mg, and a k1 for quisqualate inhibition of glutamate binding of 1.0 microM. The second protein was eluted anomalously from the gel-filtration column and showed a subunit of Mr 65000 on SDS/polyacrylamide gels. Glutamate binding to this protein showed a KD of 1.3 microM and a Bmax, of 14.5 nmol/mg, and was only slightly sensitive to the presence of quisqualate (Ki = 0.8 mM). Glutamate binding to both proteins was insensitive to kainate. It is concluded that the Mr-74000 protein is a prime candidate for the quisqualate-sensitive receptor of the crustacean neuromuscular junction.
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- S R Gray
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, U.K
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Orona E, Battelle BA, Ache BW. Immunohistochemical and biochemical evidence for the putative inhibitory neurotransmitters histamine and GABA in lobster olfactory lobes. J Comp Neurol 1990; 294:633-46. [PMID: 2341629 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902940410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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As an initial effort to investigate possible inhibitory interactions in the olfactory system of the spiny lobster, studies were conducted to identify and localize the putative inhibitory neurotransmitters histamine and GABA in the olfactory lobe. Biochemical studies demonstrated that olfactory lobe tissue was capable of synthesizing histamine from radioactive histidine and GABA from glutamic acid. Immunohistochemistry was used to localize histamine and GABA in brain sections, by using either avidin-biotin conjugated peroxidase or fluorescein conjugated secondary antibody. Specific histamine-like and GABA-like immunoreactivity was found in soma clusters of olfactory interneurons, adjacent to the olfactory lobe. Small, putative glial cells displaying intense histamine-like immunoreactivity were found interspersed among the glomeruli of the lobe. The accessory lobe exhibited moderate immunostaining for both histamine and GABA. Positive immunostaining for histamine and GABA was also found in the olfactory lobes, with a predominance of staining in the outer caps of the glomeruli, which are thought to be the regions where the primary afferent terminals contact the processes of second-order olfactory neurons. These findings collectively implicate inhibition at the first synaptic level of the olfactory pathway in the spiny lobster.
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- E Orona
- Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32086
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Ino H, Nakade S, Niinobe M, Ikenaka K, Teshima T, Wakamiya T, Matsumoto T, Shiba T, Kawai N, Mikoshiba K. Characterization of binding sites for spider toxin, [3H]NSTX-3, in the rat brain. Neurosci Res 1990; 8:29-39. [PMID: 2163047 DOI: 10.1016/0168-0102(90)90054-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A group of spider toxins (JSTX, NSTX, argiopin, argiotoxin etc.) share a basic common structure and have been reported to block strongly quisqualate- and kainate-sensitive glutamate responses in vertebrate and invertebrate nervous systems. They are presumed to be potent antagonists of both quisqualate and kainate receptors and may serve as useful tools for characterizing these receptors. We report here the synthesis of tritium-labeled NSTX-3 and the characterization of its binding sites in the rat brain. We found that high- and low-affinity binding sites exist in the cerebellum (Kd = 7.75 and 202 nM, Bmax = 0.37 and 5.54 pmol/mg protein, respectively). Synthetic NSTX analogs strongly inhibited [3H]NSTX-3 binding in the cerebellum (IC50 = 10(-7)-10(-6) M), whereas competitive agonists of glutamate receptors (AMPA, quisqualate, NMDA, kainate, glutamate and aspartate) exhibited weak or no inhibitory effects.
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- H Ino
- Division of Regulation of Macromolecular Function, Osaka University, Japan
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Stapleton A, Blankenship DT, Ackermann BL, Chen TM, Gorder GW, Manley GD, Palfreyman MG, Coutant JE, Cardin AD. Curtatoxins. Neurotoxic insecticidal polypeptides isolated from the funnel-web spider Hololena curta. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)39939-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Punzo F. The hemolymph composition and neurochemistry of the spider wasp, Pepsis formosa (say) (hymenoptera, pompilidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(90)90702-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Sansom MS, Usherwood PN. Single-channel studies of glutamate receptors. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1990; 32:51-106. [PMID: 1981887 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(08)60580-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- M S Sansom
- Department of Zoology, University of Nottingham, University Park, U.K
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Kanzaki R, Arbas EA, Strausfeld NJ, Hildebrand JG. Physiology and morphology of projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the male moth Manduca sexta. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1989; 165:427-53. [PMID: 2769606 DOI: 10.1007/bf00611233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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1. We have used intracellular recording and staining, followed by reconstruction from serial sections, to characterize the responses and structure of projection neurons (PNs) that link the antennal lobe (AL) to other regions of the brain of the male sphinx moth Manduca sexta. 2. Dendritic arborizations of the AL PNs were usually restricted either to ordinary glomeruli or to the male-specific macroglomerular complex (MGC) within the AL neuropil. Dendritic fields in the MGC appeared to belong to distinct partitions within the MGC. PNs innervating the ordinary glomeruli had arborizations in a single glomerulus (uniglomerular) or in more than one ordinary glomerulus of one AL (multiglomerular) or in one case, in single glomeruli in both ALs (bilateral-uniglomerular). One PN innervated the MGC and many or all ordinary glomeruli of the AL. 3. PNs with dendritic arborizations in the ordinary glomeruli and PNs associated with the MGC typically projected both to the calyces of the ipsilateral mushroom body and to the lateral protocerebrum, but some differences in the patterns of termination in those regions have been noted for the two classes of PNs. One PN conspicuously lacked branches in the calyces but did project to the lateral protocerebrum. The PN innervating the MGC and many ordinary glomeruli projected to the calyces of the ipsilateral mushroom body and the superior protocerebrum. 4. Crude sex-pheromone extracts excited all neurons with arborizations in the MGC, although some were inhibited by other odors. One P(MGC) was excited by crude sex-pheromone extract and by a mimic of one component of the pheromone blend but was inhibited by another component of the blend. 5. PNs with dendritic arborizations in ordinary glomeruli were excited or inhibited by certain non-pheromonal odors. Some of these PNs also responded to mechanosensory stimulation of the antennae. 6. The PN with dendritic arborizations in the MGC and many ordinary glomeruli was excited by crude sex-pheromone extracts and non-pheromonal odors and also responded to mechanosensory stimulation of the antenna.
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- R Kanzaki
- Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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- J W Olney
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110
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Carlson MD, Kish PE, Ueda T. Characterization of the solubilized and reconstituted ATP-dependent vesicular glutamate uptake system. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83243-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Dudel J, Franke C, Hatt H, Usherwood PN. Chloride channels gated by extrajunctional glutamate receptors (H-receptors) on locust leg muscle. Brain Res 1989; 481:215-20. [PMID: 2470466 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)90796-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Outside-out patches of extrasynaptic membrane were isolated from leg muscles of locusts. L-Glutamate and its agonists were applied to such patches either continuously or in rapidly switched pulses. When the pipette contained a high chloride concentration, 2.5 x 10(-5) M glutamate triggered single-channel currents (gated by H-receptors) with a conductance of 25 pS which were carried by chloride, in addition to cationic channels (gated by D-receptors). For the chloride channels, the distribution of channel open times had components of about 2 and 12 ms. Pulses of higher glutamate concentrations elicited many superimposed channel openings, and the approximately saturating concentration of 10(-3) M glutamate opened 100-200 channels simultaneously. When the pipette contained low chloride, channel conductance was reduced, and the current voltage relation was shifted towards the now negative chloride equilibrium potential. H-Receptor-gated chloride channels were activated by glutamate, ibotenate and aspartate, but not by GABA, quisqualate, kainate, N-methyl-D-aspartate and carbachol. The currents declined in the continued presence of agonist showing a time constant of desensitization greater than 1 s. Recovery from desensitization after removal of the agonist was tested with double pulses and was found to have a time constant of about 300 ms.
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- J Dudel
- Physiologisches Institut der Technischen Universität München, F.R.G
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Eldefrawi AT, Eldefrawi ME, Konno K, Mansour NA, Nakanishi K, Oltz E, Usherwood PN. Structure and synthesis of a potent glutamate receptor antagonist in wasp venom. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:4910-3. [PMID: 2838850 PMCID: PMC280547 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.13.4910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A low molecular weight toxin isolated from the venom of the digger wasp Philanthus triangulum, first noted by T. Piek, is a potent antagonist of transmission at quisqualate-sensitive glutamate synapses of locust leg muscle. This philanthotoxin 433 (PTX-433) has been purified, chemically characterized, and subsequently synthesized along with two closely related analogues. It has a butyryl/tyrosyl/spermine sequence and a molecular weight of 435. Its two analogues, PTX-343 and PTX-334 (the numerals denoting the number of methylenes between the amino groups of the spermine moiety), are also active on the glutamate synapse of the locust leg muscle; PTX-334 was more potent and PTX-343 was less potent than the natural toxin. Such chemicals are useful for studying, labeling, and purifying glutamate receptors and may become models for an additional class of therapeutic drugs and possibly insecticides.
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- A T Eldefrawi
- Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201
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Jackson H, Usherwood PN. Spider toxins as tools for dissecting elements of excitatory amino acid transmission. Trends Neurosci 1988; 11:278-83. [PMID: 2465627 DOI: 10.1016/0166-2236(88)90112-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Yamamoto D. Activation of protein kinase C promotes glutamate-mediated transmission at the neuromuscular junction of the mealworm. J Physiol 1988; 400:691-700. [PMID: 2901491 PMCID: PMC1191831 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1988.sp017144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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1. Actions of protein kinase C activators, 1,2-oleoylacetylglycerol (OAG) and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), on the glutamate-mediated neuromuscular transmission in the mealworm, Tenebrio molitor, were studied by the microelectrode current-clamp and voltage-clamp techniques. 2. The activators OAG and TPA stimulate the evoked and spontaneous transmitter releases from the presynaptic terminal, as evidenced by an increase in the quantum content estimated by the number of failures of extracellular excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs), and in the frequency of miniature EPSPs. 3. Both OAG and TPA act on the postsynaptic membrane to enhance responses to the transmitter L-glutamate. Protein kinase C activators increased the apparent maximum of the ionophoretic dose-response curve for glutamate-induced depolarization, without affecting the reversal potential and the voltage-dependent decay rate for the excitatory postsynaptic current (EPSC) under voltage-clamp conditions. 4. The postsynaptic effect of OAG and TPA is distinctly different from that of activators of cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases, such as octopamine, forskolin, CPT-cyclic AMP (8-(4-chlorophenylthio)adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate), and 8-bromo-cyclic GMP (8-bromoguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate) which decreased the postsynaptic sensitivity to L-glutamate. 5. I suggest that the responsiveness of the receptor to L-glutamate is under the control of these counteracting enzyme systems in the insect neuromuscular junction.
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- D Yamamoto
- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Mitsubishi-Kasei Institute of Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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Hidoh O, Fukami J. Presynaptic modulation by octopamine at a single neuromuscular junction in the mealworm (Tenebrio molitor). JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1987; 18:315-26. [PMID: 2885395 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480180306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The effect of octopamine on the neuromuscular junction of the mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) was examined. Octopamine potentiated excitatory junctional potentials (EJPs) recorded intracellularly and extracellularly from ventral longitudinal muscle fibers. The potentiating action of octopamine was blocked in the presence of the alpha-adrenergic blocking agent, phentolamine, but not in the presence of another alpha-blocker, phenoxybenzamine, or the beta-blockers propranolol and dichloroisoproterenol. The resting membrane potential, membrane input resistance, reversal potential of EJP, glutamate potentials, and spontaneous miniature EJPs were found to be unaffected by octopamine. In contrast, quantal contents estimated by the extracellularly recorded EJP failures were greatly increased by octopamine. These results suggest that octopamine acted on the presynaptic terminals via alpha-adrenoceptor-like receptors (octopamine receptors) at the Tenebrio neuromuscular junctions to enhance the transmitter release associated with the motor nerve impulses.
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Homberg U, Kingan TG, Hildebrand JG. Immunocytochemistry of GABA in the brain and suboesophageal ganglion of Manduca sexta. Cell Tissue Res 1987; 248:1-24. [PMID: 3552234 DOI: 10.1007/bf01239957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We have used specific antisera against protein-conjugated gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in immunocytochemical preparations to investigate the distribution of putatively GABAergic neurons in the brain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta. About 20,000 neurons per brain hemisphere exhibit GABA-immunoreactivity. Most of these are optic-lobe interneurons, especially morphologically centrifugal neurons of the lamina and tangential neurons that innervate the medulla or the lobula complex. Many GABA-immunoreactive neurons, among them giant fibers of the lobula plate, project into the median protocerebrum. Among prominent GABA-immunoreactive neurons of the median protocerebrum are about 150 putatively negative-feedback fibers of the mushroom body, innervating both the calyces and lobes, and a group of large, fan-shaped neurons of the lower division of the central body. Several commissures in the supra- and suboesophageal ganglion exhibit GABA-like immunoreactivity. In the suboesophageal ganglion, a group of contralaterally descending neurons shows GABA-like immunoreactivity. The frontal ganglion is innervated by immunoreactive processes from the tritocerebrum but does not contain GABA-immunoreactive somata. With few exceptions the brain nerves do not contain GABA-immunoreactive fibers.
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Yamaguchi T, Tsuru A, Washio H. L-glutamate and potassium-induced contractures in denervated cockroach muscles. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. C, COMPARATIVE PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY 1987; 87:401-7. [PMID: 2888585 DOI: 10.1016/0742-8413(87)90027-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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1. The effects of denervation on the mechanical responses to various concentrations of L-glutamate in retractor unguis muscle of cockroach (Perilpaneta americana) was examined, comparing them with contractures induced by high potassium saline. 2. The dose-response curve was shifted to the lower concentrations of L-glutamate after 9 days of denervation. 3. Following a transient increase in the maximum contracture tension, it decreased with days after denervation and reached a constant level by several days. However, from 16 to 20 days after denervation, the tension ratios of the maximum glutamate to potassium contractures were significantly higher than that of the innervated muscles. 4. A sustained contracture was observed on and after treatment of L-glutamate in the denervated muscle. Pretreatment of the muscle by concanavalin A facilitated to induce L-glutamate contracture. 5. It was suggested that the sensitivity of the muscle membrane to L-glutamate was increased in the denervated muscle.
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- T Yamaguchi
- Department of Biology, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
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Chase BA, Kankel DR. A genetic analysis of glutamatergic function in Drosophila. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1987; 18:15-41. [PMID: 3106567 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480180104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Neurotransmitters are essential for communication between neurons and hence are vital in the overall integrative functioning of the nervous system. Previous work on acetylcholine metabolism in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has also raised the possibility that transmitter metabolism may play a prominent role in either the achievement or maintenance of the normal structure of the central nervous system in this species. Unfortunately, acetylcholine is rather poorly characterized as a neurotransmitter in Drosophila; consequently, we have begun an analysis of the role of glutamate (probably the best characterized transmitter in this organism) in the formation and/or maintenance of nervous system structure. We present here the results of a series of preliminary analyses. To suggest where glutamatergic function may be localized, an examination of the spatial distribution of high affinity [3H]-glutamate binding sites are presented. We present the results of an analysis of the spatial and temporal distribution of enzymatic activities thought to be important in the regulation of transmitter-glutamate pools (i.e., glutamate oxaloacetic transaminase, glutaminase, and glutamate dehydrogenase). To begin to examine whether mutations in any of these functions are capable of affecting glutamatergic activity, we present the results of an initial genetic analysis of one enzymatic function, glutamate oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), chosen because of its differential distribution within the adult central nervous system and musculature.
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Kerry CJ, Kits KS, Ramsey RL, Sansom MS, Usherwood PN. Single channel kinetics of a glutamate receptor. Biophys J 1987; 51:137-44. [PMID: 2436676 PMCID: PMC1329870 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(87)83318-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The glutamate receptor-channel of locust muscle membrane was studied using the patch-clamp technique. Muscles were pretreated with concanavalin A to block receptor-channel desensitization, thus facilitating analysis of receptor-channel gating kinetics. Single channel kinetics were analyzed to aid in identification of the molecular basis of channel gating. Channel dwell-time distributions and dwell-time autocorrelation functions were calculated from single channel data recorded in the precence of 10-4M glutamate. Analysis of the dwell time distributions in terms of mixtures of exponential functions revealed there to be at least three open states of the receptor-channel and at least four closed states. Autocorrelation function analysis showed there to be at least three pathways linking the open states with the closed. This results in a minimal scheme for gating of the glutamate receptor-channel, which is suggestive of allosteric models of receptor-channel gating.
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The binding of [3H]aspartate and [3H]glutamate to membranes prepared from frozen human cerebellar cortex was studied. The binding sites differed in their relative proportions, their inhibition by amino acids and analogues, and by the effects of cations. A proportion (about 30%) of [3H]glutamate binding was to sites similar to those labelled by [3H]aspartate. An additional component of [3H]glutamate binding (about 50%) was displaced by quisqualate and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid, and may represent a "quisqualate-preferring" receptor. Neither N-methyl-D-aspartic acid-sensitive nor DL-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid-sensitive [3H]glutamate binding was detected.
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Orchard I, Lange AB. Neuromuscular transmission in an insect visceral muscle. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1986; 17:359-72. [PMID: 2877049 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480170502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The electrical properties of the muscles of locust oviduct have been examined using intracellular recordings. The muscle cells are both dye and electrically coupled. They possess a wide array of spontaneous electrical activity ranging from slow oscillations of membrane potential to action potentials. In addition to possessing spontaneous electrical activity, certain regions of the oviduct are under motor control. The amplitude of evoked excitatory junction potentials (EJPs) increased step wise revealing innervation from a maximum of three motor units. These EJPs underwent summation and facilitation, and reached a critical threshold at which point the membrane revealed an active response. Bath applied glutamate, aspartate, proctolin, and octopamine were tested for their ability to alter resting potential and EJPs. L-glutamate (1.6 X 10(-5) M and above) produced a dose-dependent depolarization of membrane potential accompanied by a reduction in amplitude of EJPs. Although L-aspartate resulted in similar effects, the concentrations required were higher than those for glutamate. Proctolin (6.3 X 10(-11) M-6.0 X 10(-9) M) resulted in a dose-dependent depolarization but had little or no effect on amplitude of EJPs. Application of D, L-octopamine (3.2 X 10(-5) M-1.7 X 10(-4) M) induced a small hyperpolarization and a reduction in amplitude of EJP. It is suggested that contractions of locust oviduct appear to be regulated by a combination of a classical neurotransmitter such as glutamate, along with the neuromodulators octopamine and proctolin.
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Wu K, Carlin R, Siekevitz P. Binding of L-[3H]glutamate to fresh or frozen synaptic membrane and postsynaptic density fractions isolated from cerebral cortex and cerebellum of fresh or frozen canine brain. J Neurochem 1986; 46:831-41. [PMID: 2869103 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1986.tb13047.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Synaptic membrane (SPM) and postsynaptic density (PSD) fractions isolated from cerebral cortex (CTX) and cerebellum (CL) of canine brain, either fresh or frozen and isolated from either fresh or frozen tissue, were found to contain L-[3H]glutamate binding sites. It was found that there was a concentration of L-glutamate binding sites in CTX-PSD and CL-PSD over the respective membrane fractions, and the Bmax value of CL-PSD (92.0 pmol/mg protein) was about three times that of CTX-PSD (28.9 pmol/mg). The results, together with those of others, suggest that the thin CL-PSD are probably derived from the excitatory synapses in the molecular layer. The ion dependency of L-glutamate binding to canine CTX-SPM fraction was found to be similar to that reported for a rat brain SPM fraction: (a) Cl- increased the number of L-glutamate binding sites and the effect was enhanced by Ca2+; Ca2+ alone had no significant effect; (b) the Cl-/Ca2+-sensitive binding sites were abolished by 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate (APB) or freezing and thawing; (c) the effect of Na+ ion was biphasic; low concentration of Na+ (less than 5 mM) decreased Cl-/Ca2+-dependent L-glutamate binding sites, whereas at higher concentrations of Na+ the binding of glutamate was found to increase either in the presence or absence of Ca2+ and Cl-. In addition, the K+ ion (50 mM) was found to decrease the Na+-independent and Cl-/Ca2+-independent binding of L-glutamate to fresh CTX-SPM by 18%, but it decreased the Na+-dependent and Cl-/Ca2+-independent L-glutamate binding by 93%; in the presence of Cl-/Ca2+, the K+ ion decreased the Na+-dependent binding by 78%. Freezing and thawing of CTX-SPM resulted in a 50% loss of the Na+-dependent L-glutamate binding sites assayed in the absence of Ca2+ and Cl-. The CL-SPM fraction showed similar ion dependency of L-glutamate binding except for the absence of Na+-dependent glutamate binding sites. The CTX-PSD fraction contained neither Na+-dependent nor APB (or Cl-/Ca2+)-sensitive L-glutamate binding sites and its L-glutamate binding was unaffected by freezing and thawing, in agreement with the reported findings using rat brain PSD preparation. L-Glutamate binding to CTX-SPM or CTX-PSD fraction was not affected by pretreatment with 10 mM L-glutamate, nor by simultaneous incubations with calmodulin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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Wafford KA, Sattelle DB. Effects of amino acid neurotransmitter candidates on an identified insect motoneurone. Neurosci Lett 1986; 63:135-40. [PMID: 2869456 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(86)90050-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The cell body of the fast coxal depressor motoneurone (Df) was used to examine the effects of a group of putative amino acid neurotransmitters. gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) elicited a biphasic hyperpolarizing response, each component having a separate reversal potential. Both components were affected by the GABA antagonist picrotoxinin. L-Glutamate produced a hyperpolarizing response with a reversal potential of between -80 and -85 mV, and L-aspartate gave a similar but less potent effect. Kainic acid and quisqualic acid elicited depolarizing responses of up to 10 mV in amplitude. beta-Alanine and taurine produced a single hyperpolarization with a reversal potential similar to glutamate. Glycine was ineffective on motoneurone Df.
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Fiedler JL, Inestrosa NC, Bustos G. Putative glutamate receptors in membranes obtained from heads of Drosophila melanogaster. J Neurosci Res 1986; 16:505-15. [PMID: 2877097 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490160306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The specific binding of L-[3H]-glutamic acid (GLU) was examined in membrane preparations derived from heads of Drosophila melanogaster. L-[3H]-GLU bound to the membrane preparation with biphasic kinetics in a reversible and saturable way. The specific binding was inhibited by Cl- and Ca2+ ions. Saturation analysis of the data fit a model of two independent binding sites with dissociation constants (KD) of 29 nM and 249 nM and corresponding binding site densities (Bmax) of 5.7 and 24.6 pmol/mg protein. A series of excitatory amino acid receptor agonists and antagonists were tested as inhibitors of L-[3H]-GLU specific binding. Some compounds almost totally abolished the specific binding, whereas others reduced the binding to 45% over the concentration range used. Among the first type of inhibitors, L-GLU was the most potent, D-aspartate (D-ASP) and D-GLU were 10 times less effective than L-GLU, whereas quisqualic acid had the lowest potency. Among the second type of inhibitors, glutamate diethyl ester, D-alpha-amino adipate, and N-methyl-D-aspartate showed the highest potency, and DL-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate was the less effective. Kainic acid and gamma-amino butyric acid were not able to modify at any concentration used the specific binding of L-[3H]-GLU. These data suggest the presence of putative GLU receptors in the brain of Drosophila.
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Olfactory receptors of the spiny lobster: ATP-sensitive cells with similarities to P2-type purinoceptors of vertebrates. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00603616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Witten JL, O'Shea M. Peptidergic innervation of insect skeletal muscle: immunochemical observations. J Comp Neurol 1985; 242:93-101. [PMID: 2416787 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902420106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Proctolin (Arg-Tyr-Leu-Pro-Thr) is a pentapeptide present in the hindgut or proctodeum of the cockroach Periplaneta americana where it may be a transmitter. Its widespread distribution among peripherally projecting neurons in the CNS (Bishop and O'Shea, '82) suggested that proctolin's motor function is not restricted to the hindgut, but has a variety of peripheral targets. This idea was further supported when proctolin was localized to an identified skeletal motoneuron, the slow coxal depressor, where it acts as a cotransmitter (O'Shea and Bishop, '82; Adams and O'Shea, '83). Our objective was to investigate the proctolinergic innervation of a variety of skeletal muscles of the cockroach Periplaneta americana. We used immunohistochemical and radioimmunochemical methods to map the distribution of proctolin immunoreactivity. This survey revealed that a subpopulation of skeletal muscles are innervated by proctolinergic motoneurons. The anatomical features of the peptidergic innervation and the levels of proctolinlike immunoreactivity of one muscle group, the coxal depressor system, are here described in detail. The source of the proctolin innervation to the metathoracic coxal depressor group is identified as the slow coxal depressor motoneuron. The results of a survey of fast and slow skeletal muscles revealed that proctolin is associated with slow motor function. The functional implications of the association of a peptide with motoneurons are discussed in relationship to the organization of the insect motor pool.
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Pocchiari M, Masullo C, Lust WD, Gibbs CJ, Gajdusek DC. Isonicotinic hydrazide causes seizures in scrapie-infected hamsters with shorter latency than in control animals: a possible GABAergic defect. Brain Res 1985; 326:117-23. [PMID: 2857587 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(85)91390-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Isonicotinic hydrazide, a drug that decreases the level of GABA, when injected subcutaneously in control and scrapie-infected hamsters induced tonic-clonic seizures in scrapie hamsters significantly earlier (P less than 0.0001) than in control animals. This suggests depression of the GABAergic system in scrapie-infected hamsters. To determine whether this lesion is pre or postsynaptic we measured the level of GABA, glutamate, cGMP and cAMP and the GABA-benzodiazepine receptor complex.
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Kingan TG, Hildebrand JG. γ-aminobutyric acid in the central nervous system of metamorphosing and mature Manduca sexta. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(85)90093-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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PITMAN ROBERTM. Nervous System. Pharmacology 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-030812-8.50007-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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