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. 1992 Aug 1;89(15):7184–7188. doi: 10.1073/pnas.89.15.7184

Classical conditioning and protein kinase C activation regulate the same single potassium channel in Hermissenda crassicornis photoreceptors.

R Etcheberrigaray 1, L D Matzel 1, I I Lederhendler 1, D L Alkon 1
PMCID: PMC49670  PMID: 1496012

Abstract

The patch-clamp technique was used to study the effects of classical conditioning and protein kinase C (PKC) activation on K+ channels of identified neurons in the snail Hermissenda crassicornis. Here we present evidence that classical conditioning and PKC activation similarly modify the same K+ channel. K+ channels were recorded in cells from animals with different training experience. The 64-pS K+ channel appeared with significantly lower frequency in the conditioned group compared to the frequencies in control animals (naive and unpaired). In addition, when present, the 64-pS channel exhibited a lower percentage of open time and an increased interval between opening bursts in cells from conditioned animals. The 42-pS K+ channel was observed with about the same frequency in all three groups, and its percentage of open time was invariant, regardless of the animal's experience. Incubation of the photoreceptor with the PKC activator phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu) led to a profound decrease in the percentage of open time of the 64-pS K+ channel, from 35.7% in the control group to 2.5% in the PDBu-treated group. The inactive phorbol 4 alpha-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate had no effect. The use of the PKC inhibitor H-7 significantly blocked the phorbol effect. Inside-out patches obtained from phorbol preincubated cells likewise showed the same effect of PDBu on K+ channels, but the effect was not observed when phorbol was added after the cell-free patches were obtained from nontreated cells. By contrast, the percentage of open time of the 42-pS K+ channel remained unchanged after phorbol treatment.

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