Dib-Hajj S D, Hinson A W, Black J A, Waxman S G
Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
FEBS Lett. 1996 Apr 8;384(1):78-82. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00273-6.
B104 neuroblastoma cells are excitable, but the ion channels underlying electrogenesis in these cells have not been identified. RT-PCR, restriction enzyme analysis and in situ hybridization were used to study sodium channel mRNAs in B104 cells. High levels of sodium channel alpha-subunit mRNAs III, NaG and Na6 and beta 1-subunit mRNA were detected by RT-PCR in B104 cells. Low levels of types I and II alpha-subunit mRNAs were also present. In situ hybridization with subtype-specific riboprobes detected sodium channel alpha-subunit mRNAs III, NaG and Na6 and beta 1-subunit mRNA in B104 cells; analysis of the percentage of B104 cells expressing each alpha-subunit mRNA subtype suggests that some cells express the mRNAs for several alpha-subunits.
