NDLI: Tagging with green fluorescent protein reveals a distinct subcellular distribution of L-type and non-L-type Ca2+ channels expressed in dysgenic myotubes

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Author	Grabner, Manfred Dirksen, Robert T. Beam, Kurt G.
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	Expression of cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels in dysgenic myotubes results in large Ca2+ currents and electrically evoked contractions resulting from Ca2+-entry dependent release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. By contrast, expression of either P/Q-type or N-type Ca2+ channels in dysgenic myotubes does not result in electrically evoked contractions despite producing comparably large Ca2+ currents. In this work we examined the possibility that this discrepancy is caused by the preferential distribution of expressed L-type Ca2+ channels in close apposition to sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release channels. We tagged the N termini of different α1 subunits (classes A, B, C, and S) with a modified green fluorescent protein (GFP) and expressed each of the fusion channels in dysgenic myotubes. Each GFP-tagged α1 subunit exhibited Ca2+ channel activity that was indistinguishable from its wild-type counterpart. In addition, expression of GFP-α1S and GFP-α1C in dysgenic myotubes restored skeletal- and cardiac-type excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, respectively, whereas expression of GFP-α1A and GFP-α1B failed to restore EC coupling of any type. Laser-scanning confocal microscopy revealed a distinct expression pattern for L-type compared with non-L-type channels. After injection of cDNA into a single nucleus, GFP-α1S and GFP-α1C were present in the plasmalemma as small punctate foci along much of the longitudinal extent of the myotube. In contrast, GFP-α1A and GFP-α1B were not concentrated into punctate foci and primarily were found adjacent to the injected nucleus. Thus, L-type channels possess a targeting signal that directs their longitudinal transport and insertion into punctate regions of myotubes that presumably represent functional sites of EC coupling.
Starting Page	1903
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ISSN	10916490
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	95
Language	English
Publisher	The National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	1998-02-17
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	The National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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