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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 7, Pages 4763-4769Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M210410200
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It is well known that the type 3 Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor, RyR3) exhibits strikingly different pharmacological and functional properties depending on the tissues in which it resides. To investigate the molecular basis for this tissue-dependent heterogeneity, we examined the primary structure of RyR3 from various tissues by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequence analysis. As many as seven alternatively spliced variants of RyR3 were detected. Ribonuclease protection assays revealed that one of these splice variants, RyR3 (AS-8a), which lacks a 29-amino acid fragment (His(4406)-Lys(4434)) encompassing a predicted transmembrane helix, was highly expressed in smooth muscle tissues, but not in skeletal muscle, the heart, or the brain. Although the RyR3 (AS-8a) splice variant did not form a functional Ca2+ release channel when expressed alone in HEK293 cells, it was able to form functional heteromeric channels with reduced caffeine sensitivity when co-expressed with the wild type RyR3. Interestingly, this RyR3 splice variant was also able to form heteromeric channels with and suppress the activity of the type 2 ryanodine receptor (RyR2). Tissue-specific expression of RyR3 splice variants is therefore likely to account for some of the pharmacological and functional heterogeneities of RyR3. These observations also reveal a novel mechanism by which a splice variant of one RyR isoform (RyR3) can suppress the activity of another RyR isoform (RyR2) via a dominant negative effect.
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