FIGURE 6.
The large extracellular loop of KCC2 but not of KCC4 requires the parental backbone. HEK-293 cells were assayed for 86Rb+ uptake 48 h after transfection with the constructs indicated below the columns. An empty vector was used for mock transfection. A, KCC2wt (white bars), KCC4wt (black bars), and the chimera KCC22-4-2 (striped bars) showed transport activity. The transport activity of KCC2wt and the chimera KCC22-4-2 is comparable. KCC22-4q-2 displayed strongly reduced transport activity compared with KCC2wt (p < 0.001). B, KCC44-2q-4 and KCC44-2-4 are transport-inactive. The plot depicts mean of three experiments ± S.D. ***, p < 0.001; *, p < 0.05; n.s., not significant.