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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 31, Issue 27, Pages 10060-10066Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1014-11.2011
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- National Eye Institute [EY12354]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81000395]
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Expression of channels to specific neuronal sites can critically impact their function and regulation. Currently, the molecular mechanisms underlying this targeting and intracellular trafficking of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels remain poorly understood, and identifying proteins involved in these processes will provide insight into underlying mechanisms. Vision is dependent on the normal function of retinal depolarizing bipolar cells (DBCs), which couple a metabotropic glutamate receptor 6 to the TRP melastatin 1 (TRPM1) channel to transmit signals from photoreceptors. We report that the extracellular membrane-attached protein nyctalopin is required for the normal expression of TRPM1 on the dendrites of DBCs in mus musculus. Biochemical and genetic data indicate that nyctalopin and TRPM1 interact directly, suggesting that nyctalopin is acting as an accessory TRP channel subunit critical for proper channel localization to the synapse.
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