Abnormal GABAA Receptors from the Human Epileptic Hippocampal Subiculum Microtransplanted to Xenopus Oocytes

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2005 Feb 8

PMID 15695331

Citations 21

Authors

Eleonora Palma

Gabriele Spinelli

Gregorio Torchia

A Martinez-Torres

Davide Ragozzino

Ricardo Miledi

Fabrizio Eusebi

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Abstract

We studied the properties of GABAA receptors microtransplanted from the human temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)-associated brain regions to Xenopus oocytes. Cell membranes, isolated from surgically resected brain specimens of drug-resistant TLE patients, were injected into frog oocytes, which rapidly incorporated human GABAA receptors, and any associated proteins, into their surface membrane. The receptors originating from different epileptic brain regions had a similar run-down but an affinity for GABA that was approximately 60% lower for the subiculum receptors than for receptors issuing from the hippocampus proper or the temporal lobe neocortex. Moreover, GABA currents recorded in oocytes injected with membranes from the subiculum had a more depolarized reversal potential compared with the hippocampus proper or neocortex of the same patients. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis was performed of the GABAA receptor alpha1- to alpha5-, beta1- to beta3-, gamma2- to gamma3-, and delta-subunit mRNAs. The levels of expression of the alpha3-, alpha5-, and beta1- to beta3- subunit mRNAs are significantly higher, with the exception of gamma2-subunit whose expression is lower, in subiculum compared with neocortex specimens. Our results suggest that an abnormal GABA-receptor subunit transcription in the TLE subiculum leads to the expression of GABAA receptors with a relatively low affinity. This abnormal behavior of the subiculum GABAA receptors may contribute to epileptogenesis.

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