Rapid application and removal of second messengers to cyclic nucleotide-gated channels from olfactory epithelium.
AUTOR(ES)
Zufall, F
RESUMO
The last step in the second-messenger cascade mediating vertebrate olfactory transduction is the direct opening of a nonspecific cation channel by cAMP. The kinetic properties of this interaction are critical in determining the time course of the sensory response. To analyze these properties, excised inside-out membrane patches containing either the native channel from salamander olfactory-receptor neurons or a recombinant rat olfactory cyclic nucleotide-gated channel were exposed to short pulses of known concentrations of cAMP or cGMP to mimic a rapid and transient production of second messenger. Channel activity outlasted cyclic nucleotide pulses for several hundred milliseconds. This effect was due to an intrinsic property of the olfactory channel protein because it did not occur with cGMP-activated channels from retinal photoreceptors. Gating kinetics of the olfactory channel were both voltage and agonist dependent. These results demonstrate that the overall slow channel-gating kinetics could account for the difference in time course between the odor-induced changes in cAMP concentration and the subsequent sensory generator current.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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