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Guo L, Yu Y, Xin N, Sun J, Chen Y, Yu M. Clonidine Protects Against Neurotoxicity Induced by Sevoflurane Through NF-κB Signaling Inhibition and Proinflammatory Cytokine Release in Rats. J Mol Neurosci 2018; 65:507-513. [DOI: 10.1007/s12031-018-1117-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Emerson DJ, Weiser BP, Psonis J, Liao Z, Taratula O, Fiamengo A, Wang X, Sugasawa K, Smith AB, Eckenhoff RG, Dmochowski IJ. Direct modulation of microtubule stability contributes to anthracene general anesthesia. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:5389-98. [PMID: 23484901 DOI: 10.1021/ja311171u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recently, we identified 1-aminoanthracene as a fluorescent general anesthetic. To investigate the mechanism of action, a photoactive analogue, 1-azidoanthracene, was synthesized. Administration of 1-azidoanthracene to albino stage 40-47 tadpoles was found to immobilize animals upon near-UV irradiation of the forebrain region. The immobilization was often reversible, but it was characterized by a longer duration consistent with covalent attachment of the ligand to functionally important targets. IEF/SDS-PAGE examination of irradiated tadpole brain homogenate revealed labeled protein, identified by mass spectrometry as β-tubulin. In vitro assays with aminoanthracene-cross-linked tubulin indicated inhibition of microtubule polymerization, similar to colchicine. Tandem mass spectrometry confirmed anthracene binding near the colchicine site. Stage 40-47 tadpoles were also incubated 1 h with microtubule stabilizing agents, epothilone D or discodermolide, followed by dosing with 1-aminoanthracene. The effective concentration of 1-aminoanthracene required to immobilize the tadpoles was significantly increased in the presence of either microtubule stabilizing agent. Epothilone D similarly mitigated the effects of a clinical neurosteroid general anesthetic, allopregnanolone, believed to occupy the colchicine site in tubulin. We conclude that neuronal microtubules are "on-pathway" targets for anthracene general anesthetics and may also represent functional targets for some neurosteroid general anesthetics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Daniel J Emerson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Bartos M, Corradi J, Bouzat C. Structural basis of activation of cys-loop receptors: the extracellular-transmembrane interface as a coupling region. Mol Neurobiol 2009; 40:236-52. [PMID: 19859835 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-009-8084-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2009] [Accepted: 09/22/2009] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Cys-loop receptors mediate rapid transmission throughout the nervous system by converting a chemical signal into an electric one. They are pentameric proteins with an extracellular domain that carries the transmitter binding sites and a transmembrane region that forms the ion pore. Their essential function is to couple the binding of the agonist at the extracellular domain to the opening of the ion pore. How the structural changes elicited by agonist binding are propagated through a distance of 50 A to the gate is therefore central for the understanding of the receptor function. A step forward toward the identification of the structures involved in gating has been given by the recently elucidated high-resolution structures of Cys-loop receptors and related proteins. The extracellular-transmembrane interface has attracted attention because it is a structural transition zone where beta-sheets from the extracellular domain merge with alpha-helices from the transmembrane domain. Within this zone, several regions form a network that relays structural changes from the binding site toward the pore, and therefore, this interface controls the beginning and duration of a synaptic response. In this review, the most recent findings on residues and pairwise interactions underlying channel gating are discussed, the main focus being on the extracellular-transmembrane interface.
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- Mariana Bartos
- Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas, UNS-CONICET, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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Szebenyi G, Bollati F, Bisbal M, Sheridan S, Faas L, Wray R, Haferkamp S, Nguyen S, Caceres A, Brady ST. Activity-driven dendritic remodeling requires microtubule-associated protein 1A. Curr Biol 2006; 15:1820-6. [PMID: 16243028 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2005] [Revised: 08/26/2005] [Accepted: 08/26/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Activity-prompted dendritic remodeling leads to calcium-influx-dependent activation of signaling pathways within minutes and gene transcription within hours. However, dendrite growth continues for days and requires extension and stabilization of the cytoskeleton in nascent processes. In addition to binding microtubules, microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) associate with the actin cytoskeleton, anchor ion channels and signaling complexes, and modulate synaptic growth. MAP2 is predominantly dendritic. MAP1B is at postsynaptic densities (PSD) and modulates ion channel activity, in addition to affecting axon growth. Less is known about MAP1A, but it is also enriched in dendrites at input locations, including PSDs where MAP1A associates with channel complexes and the calcium sensor caldendrin. MAP1A rescued hearing loss in tubby mice. Here we show that MAP1A becomes enriched in dendrites concurrently with dendritic branching and synapse formation in the developing brain; that synaptic activity is required for establishing mature MAP1A expression levels; and that MAP1A expression is required for activity-dependent growth, branching, and stabilization of the dendritic arbor.
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- Györgyi Szebenyi
- Center for Basic Neuroscience, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9111, USA
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Kittler JT, McAinsh K, Moss SJ. Mechanisms of GABAA receptor assembly and trafficking: implications for the modulation of inhibitory neurotransmission. Mol Neurobiol 2002; 26:251-68. [PMID: 12428759 DOI: 10.1385/mn:26:2-3:251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Fast synaptic inhibition in the brain is largely mediated by ionotropic GABA receptors, which can be subdivided into GABAA and GABAC receptors based on pharmacological and molecular criteria. GABAA receptors are important therapeutic targets for a range of sedative, anxiolytic, and hypnotic agents and are implicated in several diseases including epilepsy, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. In addition, modulating the efficacy of GABAergic neurotransmission may play a key role in neuronal plasticity. Recent studies have begun to reveal that the accumulation of ionotropic GABAA receptors at synapses is a highly regulated process that is facilitated by receptor-associated proteins and other cell-signaling molecules. This review focuses on recent experimental evidence detailing the mechanisms that control the assembly and transport of functional ionotropic GABAA receptors to cell surface sites, in addition to their stability at synaptic sites. These regulatory processes will be discussed within the context of the dynamic modulation of synaptic inhibition in the central nervous system (CNS).
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- Josef T Kittler
- Department of Pharmacology, University College London, United Kingdom
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Mu W, Cheng Q, Yang J, Burt DR. Alternative splicing of the GABAA receptor α4 subunit creates a severely truncated mRNA. Brain Res Bull 2002; 58:447-54. [PMID: 12242096 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(02)00816-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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GABA(A) receptors, important sites of drug action, are chloride channels composed of 5 subunits chosen from among 19 or more. Alternative splicing for alpha 5, alpha 6, and rho 1 subunits results in truncated proteins which appear to lack function. We report a similar, relatively common (about 20%) form of alternative splicing of the alpha 4 subunit mRNA in mice and humans which, remarkably, creates a severely truncated message containing only the first two and last coding exons, with a frameshift in between. The only apparent translation product includes a short piece (39 amino acids) of the N-terminus right after the signal peptide. The splicing was developmentally and regionally regulated; the highest proportions of truncated alpha 4 mRNA, about 40%, were observed in embryonic day 18 whole brain and adult cerebellum. The truncated mRNA, when coexpresssed in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells with the complete alpha 4 subunit and beta1 and gamma 2 S subunits, reduced observed GABA currents without kinetic alterations. No such effect of truncated alpha 4 was observed with alpha1 subunit-containing receptors. Thus, the truncated alpha 4 N-terminus may play a post-translational regulatory role in intracellular folding/glycosylation/assembly of the alpha 4 subunit.
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- Weitong Mu
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201-1559, USA.
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Chronic blockade of glutamate receptors enhances presynaptic release and downregulates the interaction between synaptophysin-synaptobrevin-vesicle-associated membrane protein 2. J Neurosci 2001. [PMID: 11517248 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-17-06588.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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During development of neuronal circuits, presynaptic and postsynaptic functions are adjusted in concert, to optimize interneuronal signaling. We have investigated whether activation of glutamate receptors affects presynaptic function during synapse formation, when constitutive synaptic vesicle recycling is downregulated. Using primary cultures of hippocampal neurons as a model system, we have found that chronic exposure to both NMDA and non-NMDA glutamate receptor blockers during synaptogenesis produces an increase in miniature EPSC (mEPSC) frequency, with no significant changes in mEPSC amplitude or in the number of synapses. Enhanced synaptic vesicle recycling, selectively in glutamatergic nerve terminals, was confirmed by the increased uptake of antibodies directed against the lumenal domain of synaptotagmin. No increased uptake was detected in neuronal cultures grown in the chronic presence of TTX, speaking against an indirect effect caused by decreased electrical activity. Enhanced mEPSC frequency correlated with a reduction of synaptophysin-synaptobrevin-vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 (VAMP2) complexes detectable by immunoprecipitation. Intracellular perfusion with a peptide that inhibits the binding of synaptophysin to synaptobrevin-VAMP2 induced a remarkable increase of mEPSC frequency in control but not in glutamate receptor blocker-treated neurons. These findings suggest that activation of glutamate receptors plays a role in the downregulation of the basal rate of synaptic vesicle recycling that accompanies synapse formation. They also suggest that one of the mechanisms through which this downregulation is achieved is an increased interaction of synaptophysin with synaptobrevin-VAMP2.
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Kittler JT, Rostaing P, Schiavo G, Fritschy JM, Olsen R, Triller A, Moss SJ. The subcellular distribution of GABARAP and its ability to interact with NSF suggest a role for this protein in the intracellular transport of GABA(A) receptors. Mol Cell Neurosci 2001; 18:13-25. [PMID: 11461150 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2001.1005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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GABA(A) receptors the major sites of fast synaptic inhibition in the brain are composed predominately of alpha, beta, and gamma2 subunits. The receptor gamma2 subunit interacts with a 17-kDa microtubule associated protein GABARAP, but the significance of this interaction remains unknown. Here we demonstrate that GABARAP, which immunoprecipitates with GABA(A) receptors, is not found at significant levels within inhibitory synapses, but is enriched within the Golgi apparatus and postsynaptic cisternae. We also demonstrate that GABARAP binds directly to N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF), a protein critical for intracellular membrane trafficking events. NSF and GABARAP complexes could be detected in neurons and these two proteins also colocalize within intracellular membrane compartments. Together our observations suggest that GABARAP may play a role in intracellular GABA(A) receptor transport but not synaptic anchoring, via its ability to interact with NSF. GABARAP may therefore have an important role in the production of GABAergic synapses.
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- J T Kittler
- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, University College London (UCL), London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Xin Y, Yu L, Chen Z, Zheng L, Fu Q, Jiang J, Zhang P, Gong R, Zhao S. Cloning, expression patterns, and chromosome localization of three human and two mouse homologues of GABA(A) receptor-associated protein. Genomics 2001; 74:408-13. [PMID: 11414770 DOI: 10.1006/geno.2001.6555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Type A receptors of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an inhibitory neurotransmitter, contain alpha, beta, delta, gamma, and rho subunits. The gamma subunit has four subtypes: gamma1, gamma2, gamma3, andgamma4. GABA(A) receptor-associated protein (GABARAP) was previously demonstrated to act as a linker protein between microtubules and the gamma2 subunit of GABA(A) receptors. However, no other linker proteins have been identified as mediating the linkage of microtubules and the remaining subunits of GABA(A) receptors. In this study we identified three human paralogues (GABARAPL1, GABARAPL2, and GABARAPL3) and two mouse orthologues (Gabarapl1 and Gabarapl2) of human GABARAP, all of which encoded 117 amino acids, as does Gabarapl. The expression patterns of GABARAPL1, GABARAPL2, and GABARAP in 16 adult tissues showed that they were expressed ubiquitously. The expression levels of GABARAPL1 as a 2.3-kb transcript were very high in brain, heart, peripheral blood leukocytes, liver, kidney, placenta, and skeletal muscle, very low in thymus and small intestine, and moderate in other tissues tested. The unique 1.35-kb transcript of GABARAPL2 was expressed at high levels in heart, brain, testis, prostate, ovary, spleen, and skeletal muscle, at very low levels in lung, thymus, and small intestine, and moderately in other tissues tested. For GABARAP, a 1.3-kb transcript was abundantly expressed in all tested tissues with small variation. The expression patterns of Gabarapl1 and Gabarapl2 were similar to those of their counterparts in human. In addition, GABARAPL1 was localized to human chromosome 12p12.3 and GABARAPL2 to 16q22.3-q24.1 by RH mapping, while GABARAP and GABARAPL3 were found to be localized at chromosomes 17p13.2 and 15q25.1, respectively, by searching the related databases. Sequence comparison of the cDNAs and their corresponding genomic sequences shows that GABARAP, GABARAPL1, and GABARAPL2 are composed of four exons each, while GABARAPL3 is distributed only at one exon.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16/genetics
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- RNA/genetics
- RNA/metabolism
- Radiation Hybrid Mapping
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tissue Distribution
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Affiliation(s)
- Y Xin
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, People's Republic of China
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Knowledge of signaling mechanisms has increased dramatically during the past decade, particularly in the areas of development, biochemical signaling cascades, synaptic transmission and ion channel biophysics.
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- L Y Jan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, 533 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0725, USA.
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In the conventional view, GABA acts at either ionotropic GABAA or metabotropic GABAB receptors. Recently, novel ionotropic GABA receptors that are composed of rho-subunits have been identified in the vertebrate retina. These bicuculline- and baclofen-insensitive GABA receptors are frequently called GABAC, following an early suggestion by Graham Johnston and colleagues. An IUPHAR committee has recommended that the term GABAC be avoided and subclassifies the retinal receptors as GABAA0r. However, new evidence regarding the pharmacology, structure, function, genetics and cellular localization of ionotropic GABA receptors strengthens the case for the existence of two major classes of these receptors, GABAA and GABAC.
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- J Bormann
- Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
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