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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M206738200 on October 15, 2002
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 52, 50734-50748, December 27, 2002
Molecular Cloning and Functional Identification of Mouse
Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 3 and Its Expression in Subsets of
Novel Excitatory Neurons*
Martin K.-H.
Schäfer §,
Hélène
Varoqui§¶ ,
Norah
Defamie¶,
Eberhard
Weihe , and
Jeffrey D.
Erickson¶**
From the Department of Molecular Neuroscience,
Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Philipps University Marburg,
D-35033 Marburg, Germany and ¶ Neuroscience Center and
Departments of Ophthalmology and ** Pharmacology,
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
We have cloned and functionally characterized a
third isoform of a vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT3) expressed
on synaptic vesicles that identifies a distinct glutamatergic
system in the brain that is partly and selectively promiscuous with
cholinergic and serotoninergic transmission. Transport activity was
specific for glutamate, was H+-dependent,
was stimulated by Cl ion, and was inhibited by Rose
Bengal and trypan blue. Northern analysis revealed higher mRNA
levels in early postnatal development than in adult brain. Restricted
patterns of mRNA expression were observed in presumed interneurons
in cortex and hippocampus, and projection systems were observed in the
lateral and ventrolateral hypothalamic nuclei, limbic system, and
brainstem. Double in situ hybridization histochemistry for
vesicular acetylcholine transporter identified VGLUT3 neurons in the
striatum as cholinergic interneurons, whereas VGLUT3 mRNA and
protein were absent from all other cholinergic cell groups. In the
brainstem VGLUT3 mRNA was concentrated in mesopontine raphé
nuclei. VGLUT3 immunoreactivity was present throughout the brain in a
diffuse system of thick and thin beaded varicose fibers much less
abundant than, and strictly separated from, VGLUT1 or VGLUT2 synapses.
Co-existence of VGLUT3 in VMAT2-positive and tyrosine hydroxylase
-negative varicosities only in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus and
in subsets of tryptophan hydroxylase-positive cell bodies and processes
in differentiating primary raphé neurons in vitro
indicates selective and target-specific expression of the
glutamatergic/serotoninergic synaptic phenotype.
*
This work was supported by German Research Foundation Grants
SFB 297, BMB+F 01GS01118, and BMB+F 01 GG 9818/0 (to E. W. and M. K.-H. S.) and by National Institutes of Health Grants 1P29RR16816 (to H. V.) and NS36936 (to J. D. E.).The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) AF510321.
§
Both authors contributed equally to this work.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Neuroscience
Center, Louisiania State University Health Sciences Center, 2020 Gravier St., Ste. D, New Orleans, LA 70112. E-mail:
jerick@lsuhsc.edu.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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