PUBLICATION
Non-sense mutations in the dihydropyridine receptor beta1 gene, CACNB1, paralyze zebrafish relaxed mutants
- Authors
- Zhou, W., Saint-Amant, L., Hirata, H., Cui, W.W., Sprague, S.M., and Kuwada, J.Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-060105-1
- Date
- 2006
- Source
- Cell Calcium 39(3): 227-236 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Cui, Wilson, Hirata, Hiromi, Kuwada, John, Saint-Amant, Louis, Sprague, Shawn, Zhou, Weibin
- Keywords
- Zebrafish, Muscle, Dihydropyridine receptor, EC coupling, Voltage-dependent calcium channel
- MeSH Terms
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- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Calcium Channels, L-Type/genetics*
- Codon, Nonsense*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle Contraction/physiology
- Muscle, Skeletal/physiology
- Nervous System/metabolism
- Paralysis/genetics
- Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel/genetics*
- Sequence Alignment
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 16368137 Full text @ Cell Calcium
Citation
Zhou, W., Saint-Amant, L., Hirata, H., Cui, W.W., Sprague, S.M., and Kuwada, J.Y. (2006) Non-sense mutations in the dihydropyridine receptor beta1 gene, CACNB1, paralyze zebrafish relaxed mutants. Cell Calcium. 39(3):227-236.
Abstract
Contractions by skeletal muscle require proper excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, whereby depolarization of the muscle membrane leads to an increase in cytosolic Ca(2+) and contraction. Changes in membrane voltage are detected by dihydropyridine receptors (DHPR) that directly interact with and activate ryanodine receptors to release Ca(2+) from the sarcoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol. A genetic screen for motility mutations isolated a new allele of the immotile zebrafish mutant relaxed. Muscles in relaxed embryos do not contract in response to potassium chloride (KCl) thus appear unresponsive to membrane depolarization, but do contract when stimulated by caffeine, an agonist of ryanodine receptors. This suggests that relaxed mutant muscles are defective in EC coupling. Indeed, immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that mutants lack DHPRs in skeletal muscles. The mutant phenotype results from non-sense mutations in the zebrafish CACNB1 gene that encodes the DHPR beta1 subunit. The zebrafish CACNB1 gene is expressed in skeletal muscles, PNS and CNS. Electrophysiological recordings showed no obvious abnormalities in the motor output of relaxed mutants, presumably due to redundancy provided by other beta subunits. The structural and functional homology of CACNB1 in zebrafish and mammals, suggests that zebrafish can be useful for studying EC coupling and potential neuronal function of CACNB1.
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