Type 3 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor is dispensable for sensory activation of the mammalian vomeronasal organ.
In: Scientific reports, Jg. 7 (2017-08-31), Heft 1, S. 10260
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Signal transduction in sensory neurons of the mammalian vomeronasal organ (VNO) involves the opening of the canonical transient receptor potential channel Trpc2, a Ca 2+ -permeable cation channel that is activated by diacylglycerol and inhibited by Ca 2+ -calmodulin. There has been a long-standing debate about the extent to which the second messenger inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP 3 ) and type 3 InsP 3 receptor (InsP 3 R3) are involved in the opening of Trpc2 channels and in sensory activation of the VNO. To address this question, we investigated VNO function of mice carrying a knockout mutation in the Itpr3 locus causing a loss of InsP 3 R3. We established a new method to monitor Ca 2+ in the endoplasmic reticulum of vomeronasal sensory neurons (VSNs) by employing the GFP-aequorin protein sensor erGAP2. We also performed simultaneous InsP 3 photorelease and Ca 2+ monitoring experiments, and analysed Ca 2+ dynamics, sensory currents, and action potential or field potential responses in InsP 3 R3-deficient VSNs. Disruption of Itpr3 abolished or minimized the Ca 2+ transients evoked by photoactivated InsP 3 , but there was virtually no effect on sensory activation of VSNs. Therefore, InsP 3 R3 is dispensable for primary chemoelectrical transduction in mouse VNO. We conclude that InsP 3 R3 is not required for gating of Trpc2 in VSNs.
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Type 3 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor is dispensable for sensory activation of the mammalian vomeronasal organ.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Chamero, P ; Weiss, J ; Alonso, MT ; Rodríguez-Prados, M ; Hisatsune, C ; Mikoshiba, K ; Leinders-Zufall, T ; Zufall, F |
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Zeitschrift: | Scientific reports, Jg. 7 (2017-08-31), Heft 1, S. 10260 |
Veröffentlichung: | London : Nature Publishing Group, copyright 2011-, 2017 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-09638-8 |
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