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A Global Multiregional Proteomic Map of the Human Cerebral Cortex. GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 20:614-632. [PMID: 34763096 PMCID: PMC9880820 DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2021.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The Brodmann area (BA)-based map is one of the most widely used cortical maps for studies of human brain functions and in clinical practice; however, the molecular architecture of BAs remains unknown. The present study provided a global multiregional proteomic map of the human cerebral cortex by analyzing 29 BAs. These 29 BAs were grouped into 6 clusters based on similarities in proteomic patterns: the motor and sensory cluster, vision cluster, auditory and Broca's area cluster, Wernicke's area cluster, cingulate cortex cluster, and heterogeneous function cluster. We identified 474 cluster-specific and 134 BA-specific signature proteins whose functions are closely associated with specialized functions and disease vulnerability of the corresponding cluster or BA. The findings of the present study could provide explanations for the functional connections between the anterior cingulate cortex and sensorimotor cortex and for anxiety-related function in the sensorimotor cortex. The brain transcriptome and proteome comparison indicates that they both could reflect the function of cerebral cortex, but show different characteristics. These proteomic data are publicly available at the Human Brain Proteome Atlas (www.brain-omics.com). Our results may enhance our understanding of the molecular basis of brain functions and provide an important resource to support human brain research.
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Locomotion Behavior Is Affected by the Gα S Pathway and the Two-Pore-Domain K + Channel TWK-7 Interacting in GABAergic Motor Neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 2017; 206:283-297. [PMID: 28341653 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.195669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Adjusting the efficiency of movement in response to environmental cues is an essential integrative characteristic of adaptive locomotion behavior across species. However, the modulatory molecules and the pathways involved are largely unknown. Recently, we demonstrated that in Caenorhabditis elegans, a loss-of-function of the two-pore-domain potassium (K2P) channel TWK-7 causes a fast, coordinated, and persistent forward crawling behavior in which five central aspects of stimulated locomotion-velocity, direction, wave parameters, duration, and straightness-are affected. Here, we isolated the reduction-of-function allele cau1 of the C. elegans gene kin-2 in a forward genetic screen and showed that it phenocopies the locomotor activity and locomotion behavior of twk-7(null) animals. Kin-2 encodes the negative regulatory subunit of protein kinase A (KIN-1/PKA). Consistently, we found that other gain-of-function mutants of the GαS-KIN-1/PKA pathway resemble kin-2(cau1) and twk-7(null) in locomotion phenotype. Using the powerful genetics of the C. elegans system in combination with cell type-specific approaches and detailed locomotion analyses, we identified TWK-7 as a putative downstream target of the GαS-KIN-1/PKA pathway at the level of the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic D-type motor neurons. Due to this epistatic interaction, we suggest that KIN-1/PKA and TWK-7 may share a common pathway that is probably involved in the modulation of both locomotor activity and locomotion behavior during forward crawling.
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Modarresi S, Mukherjee B, McLean JH, Harley CW, Yuan Q. CaMKII mediates stimulus specificity in early odor preference learning in rats. J Neurophysiol 2016; 116:404-10. [PMID: 27121578 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00176.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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After naturalistic odor preference training, Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) was rapidly phosphorylated in the olfactory bulb, specifically in the odor encoding regions of the glomerular layer and external plexiform layer. Intrabulbar CaMKII antagonist experiments revealed that CaMKII supports short- and long-term preference memory formation. With bulbar PKA activation as the unconditioned stimulus odor preferences could be induced despite CaMKII blockade, but now odor specificity was lost, with odor preference generalizing to an untrained odor. Odor-specific learning was associated with increased membrane-associated AMPA receptors, while nonspecific odor preference was not. Thus CaMKII activation provides a tag to confer stimulus specificity as well as supporting natural odor preference learning.
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- Shirin Modarresi
- Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; and
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- Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; and
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- Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; and
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; and
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Zhou L, Qin SJ, Gao X, Han JP, Hu B, Li M, Wu YQ, Ma X, Gu SL, Ma TF. Dexmedetomidine prevents post-ischemic LTP via presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms. Brain Res 2015; 1622:308-20. [PMID: 26168895 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.06.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Revised: 05/03/2015] [Accepted: 06/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Increasing evidence indicates that dexmedetomidine (DEX), a selective α2-adrenergic receptor agonist, has a neuroprotective effect against cerebral injury. However, it remains unknown whether and how DEX functionally prevents the pathological form of synaptic plasticity caused by ischemia in the hippocampal CA1 neurons. To address this issue, we analyzed the role of DEX using a model of brain ischemia (oxygen and glucose deprivation, OGD) referred to as post-ischemic LTP (i-LTP). We found that DEX could reduce i-LTP by selectively activating α2 receptors. To clarify its detailed mechanisms, the presynaptic and postsynaptic roles of DEX were investigated. The activation of the α2 receptors of DEX decreased the frequency spontaneous mEPSCs, which exerted its presynaptic mechanisms. In addition, DEX also decreased the amplitude of mEPSCs and prevented the depolarization of postsynaptic membranes during OGD treatment, which exerted its postsynaptic mechanisms. More importantly, our results indicate that postsynaptic β receptors, not α1 receptors, participated in i-LTP. Therefore, these results demonstrated that decreasing β receptors activation by DEX-medicated pre- and post-synaptic α2 receptors activation is responsible for i-LTP. Because of the NMDARs required for i-LTP, we further examined the critical roles of postsynaptic β receptors downstream PKA regulation of NMDA receptor-mediated EPSCs (NMDA EPSC). We clarified that it is attributable to the direct effect of DEX on NMDA EPSC as mediated by PKA inactivation. These findings suggest that DEX can protect neurons from functional damage caused by a relatively mild degree of transient cerebral ischemia, and this effect is mediated by both presynaptic reduction of NE and glutamate release and postsynaptic suppression of NMDAR activation by β receptors and downstream PKA regulation.
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- Li Zhou
- Department of Anaesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of XuZhou Medical College, XuZhou 221002, Jiangsu, China; Key Laboratory for Anesthesiology of Jiangsu Province Xuzhou, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anesthesiology of Jiangsu Province Xuzhou, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Xuzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Target Drug and Clinical Application, XuZhou 221004, Jiangsu, China.
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