Mechanism of nitric oxide dependent LTP revealed by kinetic analysis of AMPAR trafficking in rat cerebellar Purkinje cell

37th Congress of IUPS (Birmingham, UK) (2013) Proc 37th IUPS, PCB129

Poster Communications: Mechanism of nitric oxide dependent LTP revealed by kinetic analysis of AMPAR trafficking in rat cerebellar Purkinje cell

K. Yamaguchi1

1. BSI, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan.

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Nitric oxide (NO), produced by repetitive activation of the cerebellar parallel fiber (PF), induces long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission between PF- Purkinje cell (PC) synapse. Underlying mechanism of this LTP is known to be increase in density of surface expressed AMPA type glutamate receptors (AMPA-Rs), mediated by receptor exocytosis (1). NO directly S-nitrosylates N-Ethylmaleimide Sensitive Factor (NSF) and this S-nytrosylated NSF increase its affinity to GluA2 carboxy-terminus (CT) region, and interaction of NSF – GluA2-CT enhances insertion of AMPA-Rs into the synaptic membrane (2). However, whether actually NO enhanced AMPA-Rs exocytosis or suppress endocytic elimination from the synaptic membrane remained elusive. Here, we quantitatively analyzed interaction between constitutive endocytosis and NO-induced LTP with an aid of data-driven kinetic model of AMPA-R trafficking. Slice of cerebellar cortex was prepared from rat (P19-23) cerebellum ectomized after decapitation during deep anesthesia with ethyl ether. EPSC evoked by electrical stimulation of the molecular layer was recorded from PC by means of a whole-cell recording method. In basal condition, NO-donor (NOR3 30microM) itself enhanced PF-PC EPSC amplitude to 170% of the basal amplitude (LTP) in rat cerebellar slice. When constitutive endocytosis was blocked by dynamin inhibitor, similar amount of increase in EPSC-amplitude through a constitutive exocytosis of AMPA-R was observed. Because LTP occluded with the constitutive exocytosis of AMPA-Rs, both pathways had to share common mechanism. When EPSC amplitude was reduced to the minimum steady state level by tetanus toxin (TeTx) infusion through a whole-cell patch-pipette (3), NOR3 had no effect on EPSC amplitude. However, when NOR3 was applied early phase of TeTx-action, NO intermitted constitutive endocytic reduction of EPSC amplitude with a slight rebound. By using our kinetic model of AMPA-R trafficking, I successfully reconstituted this time course including a slight rebound of EPSC amplitude by assuming that AMPA-R endocytosis was blocked, but not that exocytosis was enhanced, by NO. Because NSF and AP-2, an adaptor protein required for clathrin dependent endocytosis, compete binding to the overlapping NSF/AP-2 domain at GluA2-CT, S-nitrosylated NSF would competitively inhibit binding of AP-2 to this domain, and consequently suppress endocytosis of GluA2. We conclude that NO induces LTP by blocking GluA2 endocytosis at PF-PC synapse.



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