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High-affinity Zn block in recombinant N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors with cysteine substitutions at the Q/R/N site.
Amar M
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Perin-Dureau F
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Neyton J
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In ionotropic glutamate receptors, many channel properties (e.g., selectivity, ion permeation, and ion block) depend on the residue (glutamine, arginine, or asparagine) located at the tip of the pore loop (the Q/R/N site). We substituted a cysteine for the asparagine present at that position in both NR1 and NR2 N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits. Under control conditions, receptors containing mutated NR1 and NR2 subunits show much smaller glutamate responses than wild-type receptors. However, this difference disappears upon addition of heavy metal chelators in the extracellular bath. The presence of cysteines at the Q/R/N site in both subunits of NR1/NR2C receptors results in a 220,000-fold increase in sensitivity of the inhibition by extracellular Zn. In contrast with the high-affinity Zn inhibition of wild-type NR1/NR2A receptors, the high-affinity Zn inhibition of mutated NR1/NR2C receptors shows a voltage dependence, which resembles very much that of the block by extracellular Mg. This indicates that the Zn inhibition of the mutated receptors results from a channel block involving Zn binding to the thiol groups introduced into the selectivity filter. Taking advantage of the slow kinetics of the Zn block, we show that both blocking and unblocking reactions require prior opening of the channel.
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