The Discovery of Slowness: Low-Capacity Transport and Slow Anion Channel Gating by the Glutamate Transporter EAAT5
Biophysical Journal, ISSN: 0006-3495, Vol: 100, Issue: 11, Page: 2623-2632
2011
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- Citations49
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- 49
- CrossRef41
- Captures30
- Readers30
- 30
Article Description
Excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) control the glutamate concentration in the synaptic cleft by glial and neuronal glutamate uptake. Uphill glutamate transport is achieved by the co-/countertransport of Na + and other ions down their concentration gradients. Glutamate transporters also display an anion conductance that is activated by the binding of Na + and glutamate but is not thermodynamically coupled to the transport process. Of the five known glutamate transporter subtypes, the retina-specific subtype EAAT5 has the largest conductance relative to glutamate uptake activity. Our results suggest that EAAT5 behaves as a slow-gated anion channel with little glutamate transport activity. At steady state, EAAT5 was activated by glutamate, with a K m = 61 ± 11 μ M. Binding of Na + to the empty transporter is associated with a K m = 229 ± 37 mM, and binding to the glutamate-bound form is associated with a K m = 76 ± 40 mM. Using laser-pulse photolysis of caged glutamate, we determined the pre-steady-state kinetics of the glutamate-induced anion current of EAAT5. This was characterized by two exponential components with time constants of 30 ± 1 ms and 200 ± 15 ms, which is an order of magnitude slower than those observed in other glutamate transporters. A voltage-jump analysis of the anion currents indicates that the slow activation behavior is caused by two slow, rate-limiting steps in the transport cycle, Na + binding to the empty transporter, and translocation of the fully loaded transporter. We propose a kinetic transport scheme that includes these two slow steps and can account for the experimentally observed data. Overall, our results suggest that EAAT5 may not act as a classical high-capacity glutamate transporter in the retina; rather, it may function as a slow-gated glutamate receptor and/or glutamate buffering system.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349511004802; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2011.04.034; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=79960311633&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21641307; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006349511004802; http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495(11)00480-2
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