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The brain ryanodine receptor: A caffeine-sensitive calcium release channel
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The brain ryanodine receptor: A caffeine-sensitive calcium release channel

Peter S McPhersonx, Young-Kee Kim, Hector Valdivia, C.Michael Knudson, Hiroaki Takekura, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Roberto Coronadot and Kevin P Campbell
Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol.7(1), pp.17-25
1991
DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(91)90070-G
PMID: 1648939

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Abstract

The release of stored Ca 2+ from intracellular pools triggers a variety of important neuronal processes. Physiological and pharmacological evidence has indicated the presence of caffeine-sensitive intracellular pools that are distinct from the well-characterized inositol 1,4,5,-trisphosphate (IP 3)-gated pools. Here we report that the brain ryanodine receptor functions as a caffeine- and ryanodine-sensitive Ca 2+ release channel that is distinct from the brain IP 3 receptor. The brain ryanodine receptor has been purified 6700-fold with no change in [ 3H]ry-anodine binding affinity and shown to be a homotetramer composed of an approximately 500 kd protein subunit, which is identified by anti-peptide antibodies against the skeletal and cardiac muscle ryanodine receptors. Our results demonstrate that the brain ryanodine receptor functions as a caffeine-sensitive Ca 2+ release channel and thus is the likely gating mechanism for intracellular caffeine-sensitive Ca 2+ pools in neurons.

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