Fast and slow voltage-dependent dynamics of magnesium block in the NMDA receptor: the asymmetric trapping block model

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Mariana Vargas-Caballero, Hugh P C Robinson

Abstract

The NMDA receptor (NMDAR) produces a long-lasting component of the glutamatergic EPSC in mammalian central neurons. The current through NMDARs is voltage dependent as a result of block by extracellular magnesium, which has recently been shown to give rise to a complex time dependence, with fast and slow components of responses to changes in membrane potential. Here, we studied the dynamics of block and unblock by measuring voltage step responses in conjunction with fast perfusion of agonist in nucleated patches isolated from rat cortical pyramidal neurons. We found that slow unblock shows a progressive onset during synaptic-like responses to brief pulses of agonist. Repolarizing briefly from +40 to -70 mV revealed that slow unblock is reestablished with a time constant of approximately 5 msec at room temperature. Also, the time course of deactivation, in response to a pulse of agonist, slows twofold over the potential range -30 to +40 mV. An asymmetric "trapping block" model in which the voltage-independent closing rate constant of the blocked channel is approximately three times that of the unblocked channel accounts quantitatively for all of these phenomena and for responses to action potential waveform clamp. This model allo...Continue Reading

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