Altered permeability and modulatory character of connexin channels during mammary gland development.

Abstract:

:Abrupt developmental changes occur in structural form and function of connexin (Cx) channels in the mouse mammary gland. Microarray study shows that the principal connexin isoform in epithelial cells during pregnancy is Cx26, up-regulated and persisting from the virgin. After parturition, there is rapid induction of Cx32. In epithelial plasma membranes, size exclusion chromatography reveals that Cx32 organizes initially with Cx26 as heteromeric (Cx26-Cx32) hemichannels and later in heteromeric and homomeric Cx32 channels. Dramatic alterations of connexin channel function following these developmental changes in channel composition are characterized using native channels reconstituted into liposomes. Changes to channel stoichiometry increase the allowable physical size limits of permeant after parturition; the new Cx32 channels are wider than channels containing Cx26. Most remarkably, heteromeric Cx26-Cx32 channels are selectively permeability to adenosine 3',5' cyclic phosphate (cAMP), guanosine 3',5' cyclic phosphate (cGMP), and inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP(3)), whereas homomeric channels are not. Homomeric Cx26 and heteromeric channels with high Cx26/Cx32 stoichiometry are also inhibited by taurine, an osmolyte playing a key role in milk protein synthesis. Taurine effect is reduced where heteromeric channels contain Cx32 > Cx26 and eliminated when channels contain only Cx32. Connexin channel stoichiometry, permeability, and chemical gating character change in precisely the desired fashion after parturition to maximize molecular and electrical coupling to support coordinated milk secretion.

journal_name

Exp Cell Res

authors

Locke D,Stein T,Davies C,Morris J,Harris AL,Evans WH,Monaghan P,Gusterson B

doi

10.1016/j.yexcr.2004.05.003

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-08-15 00:00:00

pages

643-60

issue

2

eissn

0014-4827

issn

1090-2422

pii

S0014482704002824

journal_volume

298

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