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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2016

Inter- and Intra-Subunit Butanol/Isoflurane Sites of Action in the Human Glycine Receptor.

Mandy L McCracken, Giorgio Gorini, Lindsay M McCracken, R Dayne Mayfield, R Adron Harris, James R Trudell

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. An intersubunit electrostatic interaction in the GABAThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2018
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mandy L McCrackenWaggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX, USA; Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, Neurobiology of Addiction Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of HealthBaltimore, MD, USA.
Giorgio GoriniWaggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA.
Lindsay M McCrackenWaggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA.
R Dayne MayfieldWaggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA.
R Adron HarrisWaggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA.
James R TrudellDepartment of Anesthesia and Beckman Program for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA.
The University of Texas at Austin · USNational Institute on Drug Abuse · USStanford Medicine · US

Funding

BRAIN MEMBRANES IN ALCOHOL AND BENZODIAZEPINE DEPENDENCER01AA006399 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI HARRIS, ROBERT A · 1985 to 2018
$8.8M
Defining Alcohol Binding Sites in Ligand-Gated Ion ChannelsR01AA020980 · NIAAA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BERTACCINI, EDWARD J · 2013 to 2017
$1.6M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA006399NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA020980
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycine receptors (GlyRs) mediate inhibitory neurotransmission and are targets for alcohols and anesthetics in brain. GlyR transmembrane (TM) domains contain critical residues for alcohol/anesthetic action: amino acid A288 in TM3 forms crosslinks with TM1 (I229) in the adjacent subunit as well as TM2 (S267) and TM4 (Y406, W407, I409, Y410) in the same subunit. We hypothesized that these residues may participate in intra-subunit and inter-subunit sites of alcohol/anesthetic action. The following double and triple mutants of GLRA1 cDNA (encoding human glycine receptor alpha 1 subunit) were injected into Xenopus laevis oocytes: I229C/A288C, I229C/A288C/C290S, A288C/Y406C, A288C/W407C, A288C/I409C, and A288C/Y410C along with the corresponding single mutants and wild-type GLRA1. Butanol (22 mM) or isoflurane (0.6 mM) potentiation of GlyR-mediated currents before and after application of the cysteine crosslinking agent HgCl2 (10 μM) was measured using two-electrode voltage clamp electrophysiology. Crosslinking nearly abolished butanol and isoflurane potentiation in the I229C/A288C and I229C/A288C/C290S mutants but had no effect in single mutants or wild-type. Crosslinking also inhibited butanol and isoflurane potentiation in the TM3-4 mutants (A288C/Y406C, A288C/W407C, A288C/I409C, A288C/Y410C) with no effect in single mutants or wild-type. We extracted proteins from oocytes expressing I229C/288C, A288C/Y410C, or wild-type GlyRs, used mass spectrometry to verify their expression and possible inter-subunit dimerization, plus immunoblotting to investigate the biochemical features of proposed crosslinks. Wild-type GlyR subunits measured about 50 kDa; after crosslinking, the dimeric/monomeric 100:50 kDa band ratio was significantly increased in I229C/288C but not A288C/Y410C mutants or wild-type, providing support for TM1-3 inter-subunit and TM3-4 intra-subunit crosslinking. A GlyR homology model based on the GluCl template provides further evidence for a multi-site model for alcohol/anesthetic interaction with human GLRA1.

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alcoholanestheticGLRA1GluCl modelimmunoblottingmass spectrometryproteomicsXenopus oocytes

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