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G Wong, Y Sei and P Skolnick
Laboratory of Neuroscience, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Expression plasmids were constructed with cDNAs encoding the rat gamma- aminobutyric acid-A (GABAA) receptor alpha 1, beta 2, and gamma 2 subunits and were cotransfected into cultured human embryonic kidney 293 cells. A single cell line (WS-1) was established after G-418 treatment and clonal selection. This cell line contained saturable, high affinity binding sites for the benzodiazepines [3H] Ro 15-4513 and [3H]flunitrazepam that were modulated by GABA. Competition experiments with benzodiazepine receptor ligands suggest a profile characteristic of native "type I" benzodiazepine receptors, because strong correlations were observed between the Ki values of these ligands in WS- 1 cells and in both cerebellar homogenates (r = 0.97, p < 0.0001) and 293 cells transiently transfected with the corresponding cDNAs (r = 0.96, p < 0.001). Fluorescence intensity in WS-1 cells loaded with the Cl(-)-specific probe 6-methoxy-N-(3-sulfopropyl)-quinolinium was reliably increased by GABA. This effect was blocked by bicuculline and augmented by midazolam, consistent with the presence of GABA-gated, benzodiazepine receptor-modulated, Cl- channels. Northern blot analysis revealed the presence of mRNAs encoding alpha 1 and gamma 2 receptor subunits. Southern blot analysis confirmed genomic integration of transfected alpha 1 and gamma 2 cDNAs. The beta 2 subunit was not detected in either Northern or Southern blot analysis, indicating that a functional type I GABAA/benzodiazepine receptor complex can be constituted without a beta subunit.
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