PMID- 2577369 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19910516 LR - 20131121 IS - 1043-4674 (Print) IS - 1043-4674 (Linking) VI - 1 IP - 2 DP - 1989 Nov TI - Evidence for a single glutamate receptor of the ionotropic kainate/quisqualate type. PG - 153-8 AB - The kainate (KA) and the quisqualate (QUIS) receptors that activate cation channels in the central nervous system have previously been defined as two of the major glutamate receptor types. In amphibian brain, an exceptionally rich source of these sites, they can be coextracted by octylglucoside and shown to behave as one entity in all analyses made in solution. When partly purified by lectin affinity, ion-exchange chromatography or by sucrose gradient centrifugation, the two activities comigrate in a 1:1 ratio. When the QUIS component is bound to an immobilized specific QUIS agonist, the KA component is extracted in parallel with it. There are equivalent numbers of the QUIS and KA sites and the two sites show a single affinity series for the binding of glutamatergic agonists. We deduce that KA or QUIS select different conformations of a single KA/QUIS receptor binding site, leading thus to the different channel-opening events that have been reported for these two agonists. FAU - Henley, J M AU - Henley JM AD - MRC Molecular Neurobiology Unit, MRC Centre, Cambridge, England. FAU - Ambrosini, A AU - Ambrosini A FAU - Krogsgaard-Larsen, P AU - Krogsgaard-Larsen P FAU - Barnard, E A AU - Barnard EA LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - New Biol JT - The New biologist JID - 9000976 RN - 0 (Quinoxalines) RN - 0 (Receptors, AMPA) RN - 0 (Receptors, Glutamate) RN - 0 (Receptors, Kainic Acid) RN - 0 (Receptors, Neurotransmitter) RN - 2552-55-8 (Ibotenic Acid) RN - 6OTE87SCCW (6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione) RN - 77521-29-0 (alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid) RN - 8OC22C1B99 (Quisqualic Acid) RN - SIV03811UC (Kainic Acid) SB - IM MH - 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione MH - Animals MH - *Brain Chemistry MH - Ibotenic Acid/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism/pharmacology MH - Ion Channel Gating/drug effects MH - Kainic Acid/*metabolism/pharmacology MH - Kinetics MH - Protein Conformation MH - Quinoxalines/pharmacology MH - Quisqualic Acid/*metabolism/pharmacology MH - Receptors, AMPA MH - Receptors, Glutamate MH - Receptors, Kainic Acid MH - Receptors, Neurotransmitter/*classification/drug effects/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Xenopus laevis MH - alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid EDAT- 1989/11/01 00:00 MHDA- 1989/11/01 00:01 CRDT- 1989/11/01 00:00 PHST- 1989/11/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1989/11/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1989/11/01 00:00 [entrez] PST - ppublish SO - New Biol. 1989 Nov;1(2):153-8.