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ANO2 is the cilial calcium-activated chloride channel that may mediate olfactory amplification

Aaron B. StephanDepartment of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; andEleen Y. ShumDepartment of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; andSarah HirshDepartment of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; andKatherine D. CygnarDepartment of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; andJohannes ReisertMonell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308Haiqing ZhaoDepartment of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; and

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For vertebrate olfactory signal transduction, a calcium-activated chloride conductance serves as a major amplification step. However, the molecular identity of the olfactory calcium-activated chloride channel (CaCC) is unknown. Here we report a proteomic screen for cilial membrane proteins of mouse olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) that identified all the known olfactory transduction components as well as Anoctamin 2 (ANO2). Ano2 transcripts were expressed specifically in OSNs in the olfactory epithelium, and ANO2::EGFP fusion protein localized to the OSN cilia when expressed in vivo using an adenoviral vector. Patch-clamp analysis revealed that ANO2, when expressed in HEK-293 cells, forms a CaCC and exhibits channel properties closely resembling the native olfactory CaCC. Considering these findings together, we propose that ANO2 constitutes the olfactory calcium-activated chloride channel.

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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903304106

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