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Simultaneous Loss of NCKX4 and CNG Channel Desensitization Impairs Olfactory Sensitivity.

  • Christopher H Ferguson‎ et al.
  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience‎
  • 2017‎

In vertebrate olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs), Ca2+ plays key roles in both mediating and regulating the olfactory response. Ca2+ enters OSN cilia during the response through the olfactory cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channel and stimulates a depolarizing chloride current by opening the olfactory Ca2+-activated chloride channel to amplify the response. Ca2+ also exerts negative regulation on the olfactory transduction cascade, through mechanisms that include reducing the CNG current by desensitizing the CNG channel via Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM), to reduce the response. Ca2+ is removed from the cilia primarily by the K+-dependent Na+/Ca2+ exchanger 4 (NCKX4), and the removal of Ca2+ leads to closure of the chloride channel and response termination. In this study, we investigate how two mechanisms conventionally considered negative regulatory mechanisms of olfactory transduction, Ca2+ removal by NCKX4, and desensitization of the CNG channel by Ca2+/CaM, interact to regulate the olfactory response. We performed electro-olfactogram (EOG) recordings on the double-mutant mice, NCKX4-/-;CNGB1ΔCaM, which are simultaneously lacking NCKX4 (NCKX4-/-) and Ca2+/CaM-mediated CNG channel desensitization (CNGB1ΔCaM). Despite exhibiting alterations in various response attributes, including termination kinetics and adaption properties, OSNs in either NCKX4-/- mice or CNGB1ΔCaM mice show normal resting sensitivity, as determined by their unchanged EOG response amplitude. We found that OSNs in NCKX4-/-;CNGB1ΔCaM mice displayed markedly reduced EOG amplitude accompanied by alterations in other response attributes. This study suggests that what are conventionally considered negative regulatory mechanisms of olfactory transduction also play a role in setting the resting sensitivity in OSNs.


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