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Published online Jun 1 2004. doi:10.1085/jgp.200409029
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JGP, Volume 123, Number 6, 663-683
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Regulation of KCNQ2/KCNQ3 Current by G Protein Cycling

The Kinetics of Receptor-mediated Signaling by Gq



Byung-Chang Suh1, Lisa F. Horowitz1, Wiebke Hirdes1, Ken Mackie1,2, and Bertil Hille1

1 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195
2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195

Address correspondence to Dr. Bertil Hille, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, G-424 Health Sciences Building, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195-7290. Fax: (206) 685-0619; email: hille{at}u.washington.edu

Receptor-mediated modulation of KCNQ channels regulates neuronal excitability. This study concerns the kinetics and mechanism of M1 muscarinic receptor–mediated regulation of the cloned neuronal M channel, KCNQ2/KCNQ3 (Kv7.2/Kv7.3). Receptors, channels, various mutated G-protein subunits, and an optical probe for phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) were coexpressed by transfection in tsA-201 cells, and the cells were studied by whole-cell patch clamp and by confocal microscopy. Constitutively active forms of G{alpha}q and G{alpha}11, but not G{alpha}13, caused a loss of the plasma membrane PIP2 and a total tonic inhibition of the KCNQ current. There were no further changes upon addition of the muscarinic agonist oxotremorine-M (oxo-M). Expression of the regulator of G-protein signaling, RGS2, blocked PIP2 hydrolysis and current suppression by muscarinic stimulation, confirming that the Gq family of G-proteins is necessary. Dialysis with the competitive inhibitor GDPßS (1 mM) lengthened the time constant of inhibition sixfold, decreased the suppression of current, and decreased agonist sensitivity. Removal of intracellular Mg2+ slowed both the development and the recovery from muscarinic suppression. When combined with GDPßS, low intracellular Mg2+ nearly eliminated muscarinic inhibition. With nonhydrolyzable GTP analogs, current suppression developed spontaneously and muscarinic inhibition was enhanced. Such spontaneous suppression was antagonized by GDPßS or GTP or by expression of RGS2. These observations were successfully described by a kinetic model representing biochemical steps of the signaling cascade using published rate constants where available. The model supports the following sequence of events for this Gq-coupled signaling: A classical G-protein cycle, including competition for nucleotide-free G-protein by all nucleotide forms and an activation step requiring Mg2+, followed by G-protein–stimulated phospholipase C and hydrolysis of PIP2, and finally PIP2 dissociation from binding sites for inositol lipid on the channels so that KCNQ current was suppressed. Further experiments will be needed to refine some untested assumptions.

Key Words: M-current • M1 muscarinic receptor • phospholipase C • magnesium • PIP2


Wiebke Hirdes's present address is Institut für Angewandte Physiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Universität Hamburg, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany.

Lisa F. Horowitz's present address is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109.

Abbreviations used in this paper: GppNHp, guanylyl-imidodiphosphate; GTP{gamma}S, guanosine-5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate); IP3, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate; oxo-M, oxotremorine-M; PIP2, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate.

1 The present model has a single intracellular compartment that we often refer to as "cytoplasm." It represents the cytoplasm and the nucleus lumped together.


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