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Allosteric modulation of an expressed homo-oligomeric GABA-gated chloride channel of Drosophila melanogaster.

Abstract：

:1. Functional GABA-gated chloride channels are formed when cRNA encoding the Drosophila melanogaster GABA receptor subunit RDL is injected into the cytoplasm of Xenopus oocytes. Two-electrode voltage-clamp was used to investigate allosteric modulation of GABA-induced currents recorded from the expressed, bicuculline-insensitive, RDL homo-oligomers. 2. Flunitrazepam (0.1 microM to 100 microM) had no effect on the amplitude of responses to 10 microM GABA (approximately EC10), whereas 4'chlorodiazepam (100 microM) enhanced the amplitude of submaximal responses to GABA. 3-Hydroxymethyl-beta-carboline (1 microM) and ethyl-beta-carboline-3-carboxylate (both 1 and 100 microM) had no effect on currents induced by 30 microM (approximately EC50) GABA. However 100 microM 3-hydroxymethyl-beta-carboline reduced potentiation by 4'chlorodiazepam. 3. The sodium salts of pentobarbitone (10 microM to 1 mM) and phenobarbitone (50 microM to 1 mM) dose-dependently enhanced submaximal GABA responses. Neither barbiturate activated currents in the absence of GABA. 4. At 10 microM, the steroids 5 alpha-pregnan-3 alpha-ol-20-one and alphaxalone (5 alpha-pregnan-3 alpha-ol-11,20-dione), potentiated submaximal GABA responses. The stereoselectivity of steroid action seen on vertebrate GABAA receptors was observed on RDL homo-oligomers as 5 alpha-pregnan-3 beta-ol-20-one (10 microM) was without effect. None of the three steroids tested activated currents in the absence of GABA. 5. The novel anticonvulsant, loreclezole (100 microM), potentiated the response to 10 microM GABA, but not that of saturating concentrations of GABA. delta-Hexachlorocyclohexane (0.1 microM to 30 microM) was a potent enhancer of submaximal responses to GABA of RDL. 6. The potencies of barbiturates and steroids on RDL homo-oligomers resemble those observed for several in situ insect GABA receptors, whereas those of benzodiazepine binding-site ligands are considerably reduced. The differences in the benzodiazepine pharmacology of RDL homo-oligomers and native GABA receptors, may reflect roles of other subunits in native insect receptors.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

journal_title

British journal of pharmacology

authors

Hosie AM,Sattelle DB

doi

10.1111/j.1476-5381.1996.tb16720.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-03-01 00:00:00

pages

1229-37

issue

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

117

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Allosteric modulation of an expressed homo-oligomeric GABA-gated chloride channel of Drosophila melanogaster.