Function of a truncated dihydropyridine receptor as both voltage sensor and calcium channel.
The skeletal muscle dihydropyridine (DHP) receptor serves dual functions, as a voltage sensor for excitation-contraction coupling and as an L-type calcium channel. Biochemical analysis indicates the presence of two forms of the DHP receptor polypeptide in skeletal muscle, a full-length translation product present as a minor species and a much more abundant form that has a truncated carboxy-terminus. On the basis of these and other observations, it has been proposed that, in skeletal muscle, only the full-length DHP receptor can function as a calcium channel and that the truncated form can only function as a voltage sensor for excitation-contraction coupling. To resolve this issue, we have now constructed a complementary DNA (pC6 delta 1) encoding a protein corresponding to the truncated DHP receptor in skeletal muscle. Expression of pC6 delta 1 in dysgenic myotubes fully restores both excitation-contraction coupling and calcium current, consistent with the idea that a single class of DHP receptors performs both functions.[1]References
- Function of a truncated dihydropyridine receptor as both voltage sensor and calcium channel. Beam, K.G., Adams, B.A., Niidome, T., Numa, S., Tanabe, T. Nature (1992) [Pubmed]
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