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Feng J, Dong H, Lischinsky JE, Zhou J, Deng F, Zhuang C, Miao X, Wang H, Li G, Cai R, Xie H, Cui G, Lin D, Li Y. Monitoring norepinephrine release in vivo using next-generation GRAB NE sensors. Neuron 2024; 112:1930-1942.e6. [PMID: 38547869 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 01/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024]
Abstract
Norepinephrine (NE) is an essential biogenic monoamine neurotransmitter. The first-generation NE sensor makes in vivo, real-time, cell-type-specific and region-specific NE detection possible, but its low NE sensitivity limits its utility. Here, we developed the second-generation GPCR-activation-based NE sensors (GRABNE2m and GRABNE2h) with a superior response and high sensitivity and selectivity to NE both in vitro and in vivo. Notably, these sensors can detect NE release triggered by either optogenetic or behavioral stimuli in freely moving mice, producing robust signals in the locus coeruleus and hypothalamus. With the development of a novel transgenic mouse line, we recorded both NE release and calcium dynamics with dual-color fiber photometry throughout the sleep-wake cycle; moreover, dual-color mesoscopic imaging revealed cell-type-specific spatiotemporal dynamics of NE and calcium during sensory processing and locomotion. Thus, these new GRABNE sensors are valuable tools for monitoring the precise spatiotemporal release of NE in vivo, providing new insights into the physiological and pathophysiological roles of NE.
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- Jiesi Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Neuroscience Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Neurobiology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100020 Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Neurobiology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 102206, China; Institute of Molecular Physiology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China; National Biomedical Imaging Center, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Lin Z, Li Y, Hang Y, Wang C, Liu B, Li J, Yin L, Jiang X, Du X, Qiao Z, Zhu F, Zhang Z, Zhang Q, Zhou Z. Tuning the Size of Large Dense-Core Vesicles and Quantal Neurotransmitter Release via Secretogranin II Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2202263. [PMID: 35896896 PMCID: PMC9507364 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202202263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Large dense-core vesicles (LDCVs) are larger in volume than synaptic vesicles, and are filled with multiple neuropeptides, hormones, and neurotransmitters that participate in various physiological processes. However, little is known about the mechanism determining the size of LDCVs. Here, it is reported that secretogranin II (SgII), a vesicle matrix protein, contributes to LDCV size regulation through its liquid-liquid phase separation in neuroendocrine cells. First, SgII undergoes pH-dependent polymerization and the polymerized SgII forms phase droplets with Ca2+ in vitro and in vivo. Further, the Ca2+ -induced SgII droplets recruit reconstituted bio-lipids, mimicking the LDCVs biogenesis. In addition, SgII knockdown leads to significant decrease of the quantal neurotransmitter release by affecting LDCV size, which is differently rescued by SgII truncations with different degrees of phase separation. In conclusion, it is shown that SgII is a unique intravesicular matrix protein undergoing liquid-liquid phase separation, and present novel insights into how SgII determines LDCV size and the quantal neurotransmitter release.
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- Zhaohan Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular MedicineInstitute of Molecular MedicineCollege of Future TechnologyPeking‐Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, and PKU‐IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
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Zhu F, Liu L, Li J, Liu B, Wang Q, Jiao R, Xu Y, Wang L, Sun S, Sun X, Younus M, Wang C, Hokfelt T, Zhang B, Gu H, Xu ZQD, Zhou Z. Cocaine increases quantal norepinephrine secretion through NET-dependent PKC activation in locus coeruleus neurons. Cell Rep 2022; 40:111199. [PMID: 35977516 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The norepinephrine neurons in locus coeruleus (LC-NE neurons) are essential for sleep arousal, pain sensation, and cocaine addiction. According to previous studies, cocaine increases NE overflow (the profile of extracellular NE level in response to stimulation) by blocking the NE reuptake. NE overflow is determined by NE release via exocytosis and reuptake through NE transporter (NET). However, whether cocaine directly affects vesicular NE release has not been directly tested. By recording quantal NE release from LC-NE neurons, we report that cocaine directly increases the frequency of quantal NE release through regulation of NET and downstream protein kinase C (PKC) signaling, and this facilitation of NE release modulates the activity of LC-NE neurons and cocaine-induced stimulant behavior. Thus, these findings expand the repertoire of mechanisms underlying the effects of cocaine on NE (pro-release and anti-reuptake), demonstrate NET as a release enhancer in LC-NE neurons, and provide potential sites for treatment of cocaine addiction.
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- Feipeng Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Core Facilities Center, Departments of Neurobiology and Pathology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Neural Regeneration and Repair, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, 171 71 Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China; Institute of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518132, China.
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Core Facilities Center, Departments of Neurobiology and Pathology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Neural Regeneration and Repair, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Future Technology and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Lork AA, Vo KLL, Phan NTN. Chemical Imaging and Analysis of Single Nerve Cells by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Cellular Electrochemistry. Front Synaptic Neurosci 2022; 14:854957. [PMID: 35651734 PMCID: PMC9149580 DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2022.854957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
A nerve cell is a unit of neuronal communication in the nervous system and is a heterogeneous molecular structure, which is highly mediated to accommodate cellular functions. Understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms of neural communication at the single cell level requires analytical techniques with high sensitivity, specificity, and spatial resolution. Challenging technologies for chemical imaging and analysis of nerve cells will be described in this review. Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) allows for non-targeted and targeted molecular imaging of nerve cells and synapses at subcellular resolution. Cellular electrochemistry is well-suited for quantifying the amount of reactive chemicals released from living nerve cells. These techniques will also be discussed regarding multimodal imaging approaches that have recently been shown to be advantageous for the understanding of structural and functional relationships in the nervous system. This review aims to provide an insight into the strengths, limitations, and potentials of these technologies for synaptic and neuronal analyses.
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Wang Y, DeMarco EM, Witzel LS, Keighron JD. A selected review of recent advances in the study of neuronal circuits using fiber photometry. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2021; 201:173113. [PMID: 33444597 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2021.173113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
To understand the correlation between animal behaviors and the underlying neuronal circuits, it is important to monitor and record neurotransmission in the brain of freely moving animals. With the development of fiber photometry, based on genetically encoded biosensors, and novel electrochemical biosensors, it is possible to measure some key neuronal transmission events specific to cell types or neurotransmitters of interest with high temporospatial resolution. This review discusses the recent advances and achievements of these two techniques in the study of neurotransmission in animal models and how they can be used to complement other techniques in the neuroscientist's toolbox.
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- Yuanmo Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA
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- Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA.
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Li M, Xu H, Chen G, Sun S, Wang Q, Liu B, Wu X, Zhou L, Chai Z, Sun X, Lu Y, Younus M, Zheng L, Zhu F, Jia H, Chen X, Wang C, Zhou Z. Impaired D2 receptor-dependent dopaminergic transmission in prefrontal cortex of awake mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Brain 2020; 142:3099-3115. [PMID: 31504219 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awz243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 06/02/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
The loss-of-function mutation in PARK7/DJ-1 is one of the most common causes of autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease, and patients carrying PARK7 mutations often exhibit both a progressive movement disorder and emotional impairment, such as anxiety. However, the causes of the emotional symptom accompanying PARK7-associated and other forms of Parkinson's disease remain largely unexplored. Using two-photon microscopic Ca2+ imaging in awake PARK7-/- and PARK7+/+ mice, we found that (i) PARK7-/- neurons in the frontal association cortex showed substantially higher circuit activity recorded as spontaneous somatic Ca2+ signals; (ii) both basal and evoked dopamine release remained intact, as determined by both electrochemical dopamine recordings and high performance liquid chromatography in vivo; (iii) D2 receptor expression was significantly decreased in postsynaptic frontal association cortical neurons, and the hyper-neuronal activity were rescued by D2 receptor intervention using either local pharmacology or viral D2 receptor over-expression; and (iv) PARK7-/- mice showed anxiety-like behaviours that were rescued by either local D2 receptor pharmacology or overexpression. Thus, for first time, we demonstrated a robust D2 receptor-dependent phenotype of individual neurons within the prefrontal cortex circuit in awake parkinsonian mice that linked with anxiety. Our work sheds light on early-onset phenotypes and the mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease by imaging brain circuits in an awake mouse model.
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- Mingli Li
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Key Lab of Medical Electrophysiology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Brain Research Instrument Innovation Center, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China
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- Brain Research Center, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Keighron JD, Wang Y, Cans AS. Electrochemistry of Single-Vesicle Events. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2020; 13:159-181. [PMID: 32151142 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-061417-010032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Neuronal transmission relies on electrical signals and the transfer of chemical signals from one neuron to another. Chemical messages are transmitted from presynaptic neurons to neighboring neurons through the triggered fusion of neurotransmitter-filled vesicles with the cell plasma membrane. This process, known as exocytosis, involves the rapid release of neurotransmitter solutions that are detected with high affinity by the postsynaptic neuron. The type and number of neurotransmitters released and the frequency of vesicular events govern brain functions such as cognition, decision making, learning, and memory. Therefore, to understand neurotransmitters and neuronal function, analytical tools capable of quantitative and chemically selective detection of neurotransmitters with high spatiotemporal resolution are needed. Electrochemistry offers powerful techniques that are sufficiently rapid to allow for the detection of exocytosis activity and provides quantitative measurements of vesicle neurotransmitter content and neurotransmitter release from individual vesicle events. In this review, we provide an overview of the most commonly used electrochemical methods for monitoring single-vesicle events, including recent developments and what is needed for future research.
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- Jacqueline D Keighron
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York 11568, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden;
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden;
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Carbone E, Borges R, Eiden LE, García AG, Hernández‐Cruz A. Chromaffin Cells of the Adrenal Medulla: Physiology, Pharmacology, and Disease. Compr Physiol 2019; 9:1443-1502. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c190003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ca 2+-independent but voltage-dependent quantal catecholamine secretion (CiVDS) in the mammalian sympathetic nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:20201-20209. [PMID: 31530723 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1902444116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Action potential-induced vesicular exocytosis is considered exclusively Ca2+ dependent in Katz's Ca2+ hypothesis on synaptic transmission. This long-standing concept gets an exception following the discovery of Ca2+-independent but voltage-dependent secretion (CiVDS) and its molecular mechanisms in dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons. However, whether CiVDS presents only in sensory cells remains elusive. Here, by combining multiple independent recordings, we report that [1] CiVDS robustly presents in the sympathetic nervous system, including sympathetic superior cervical ganglion neurons and slice adrenal chromaffin cells, [2] uses voltage sensors of Ca2+ channels (N-type and novel L-type), and [3] contributes to catecholamine release in both homeostatic and fight-or-flight like states; [4] CiVDS-mediated catecholamine release is faster than that of Ca2+-dependent secretion at the quantal level and [5] increases Ca2+ currents and contractility of cardiac myocytes. Together, CiVDS presents in the sympathetic nervous system with potential physiological functions, including cardiac muscle contractility.
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Feng J, Zhang C, Lischinsky JE, Jing M, Zhou J, Wang H, Zhang Y, Dong A, Wu Z, Wu H, Chen W, Zhang P, Zou J, Hires SA, Zhu JJ, Cui G, Lin D, Du J, Li Y. A Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensor for Rapid and Specific In Vivo Detection of Norepinephrine. Neuron 2019; 102:745-761.e8. [PMID: 30922875 PMCID: PMC6533151 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 303] [Impact Index Per Article: 60.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Revised: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Norepinephrine (NE) is a key biogenic monoamine neurotransmitter involved in a wide range of physiological processes. However, its precise dynamics and regulation remain poorly characterized, in part due to limitations of available techniques for measuring NE in vivo. Here, we developed a family of GPCR activation-based NE (GRABNE) sensors with a 230% peak ΔF/F0 response to NE, good photostability, nanomolar-to-micromolar sensitivities, sub-second kinetics, and high specificity. Viral- or transgenic-mediated expression of GRABNE sensors was able to detect electrical-stimulation-evoked NE release in the locus coeruleus (LC) of mouse brain slices, looming-evoked NE release in the midbrain of live zebrafish, as well as optogenetically and behaviorally triggered NE release in the LC and hypothalamus of freely moving mice. Thus, GRABNE sensors are robust tools for rapid and specific monitoring of in vivo NE transmission in both physiological and pathological processes.
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- Jiesi Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Neuroscience Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China
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- Neurobiology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315010, China; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Neurobiology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China; PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100871, China.
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Where Is Dopamine and how do Immune Cells See it?: Dopamine-Mediated Immune Cell Function in Health and Disease. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol 2019; 15:114-164. [PMID: 31077015 DOI: 10.1007/s11481-019-09851-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 04/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Dopamine is well recognized as a neurotransmitter in the brain, and regulates critical functions in a variety of peripheral systems. Growing research has also shown that dopamine acts as an important regulator of immune function. Many immune cells express dopamine receptors and other dopamine related proteins, enabling them to actively respond to dopamine and suggesting that dopaminergic immunoregulation is an important part of proper immune function. A detailed understanding of the physiological concentrations of dopamine in specific regions of the human body, particularly in peripheral systems, is critical to the development of hypotheses and experiments examining the effects of physiologically relevant dopamine concentrations on immune cells. Unfortunately, the dopamine concentrations to which these immune cells would be exposed in different anatomical regions are not clear. To address this issue, this comprehensive review details the current information regarding concentrations of dopamine found in both the central nervous system and in many regions of the periphery. In addition, we discuss the immune cells present in each region, and how these could interact with dopamine in each compartment described. Finally, the review briefly addresses how changes in these dopamine concentrations could influence immune cell dysfunction in several disease states including Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, as well as the collection of pathologies, cognitive and motor symptoms associated with HIV infection in the central nervous system, known as NeuroHIV. These data will improve our understanding of the interactions between the dopaminergic and immune systems during both homeostatic function and in disease, clarify the effects of existing dopaminergic drugs and promote the creation of new therapeutic strategies based on manipulating immune function through dopaminergic signaling. Graphical Abstract.
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White KA, Mulberry G, Smith J, Lindau M, Minch BA, Sugaya K, Kim BN. Single-Cell Recording of Vesicle Release From Human Neuroblastoma Cells Using 1024-ch Monolithic CMOS Bioelectronics. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 2018; 12:1345-1355. [PMID: 30059319 PMCID: PMC6361518 DOI: 10.1109/tbcas.2018.2861220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Human neuroblastoma cells, SH-SY5Y, are often used as a neuronal model to study Parkinson's disease and dopamine release in the substantia nigra, a midbrain region that plays an important role in motor control. Using amperometric single-cell recordings of single vesicle release events, we can study molecular manipulations of dopamine release and gain a better understanding of the mechanisms of neurological diseases. However, single-cell analysis of neurotransmitter release using traditional techniques yields results with very low throughput. In this paper, we will discuss a monolithically-integrated CMOS sensor array that has the low-noise performance, fine temporal resolution, and 1024 parallel channels to observe dopamine release from many single cells with single-vesicle resolution. The measured noise levels of our transimpedance amplifier are 415, 622, and 1083 [Formula: see text], at sampling rates of 10, 20, and 30 kS/s, respectively, without additional filtering. Post-CMOS processing is used to monolithically integrate 1024 on-chip gold electrodes, with an individual electrode size of 15 μm × 15 μm, directly on 1024 transimpedance amplifiers in the CMOS device. SU-8 traps are fabricated on individual electrodes to allow single cells to be interrogated and to reject multicellular clumps. Dopamine secretions from 76 cells are simultaneously recorded by loading the CMOS device with SH-SY5Y cells. In the 42-s measurement, a total of 7147 single vesicle release events are monitored. The study shows the CMOS device's capability of recording vesicle secretion at a single-cell level, with 1024 parallel channels, to provide detailed information on the dynamics of dopamine release at a single-vesicle resolution.
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- Kevin A. White
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 USA ()
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 USA ()
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- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32827 USA ()
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- School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA ()
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- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32827 USA ()
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 USA ()
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Dynamin 1 Restrains Vesicular Release to a Subquantal Mode In Mammalian Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. J Neurosci 2018; 39:199-211. [PMID: 30381405 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1255-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 10/14/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Dynamin 1 (dyn1) is required for clathrin-mediated endocytosis in most secretory (neuronal and neuroendocrine) cells. There are two modes of Ca2+-dependent catecholamine release from single dense-core vesicles: full-quantal (quantal) and subquantal in adrenal chromaffin cells, but their relative occurrences and impacts on total secretion remain unclear. To address this fundamental question in neurotransmission area using both sexes of animals, here we report the following: (1) dyn1-KO increased quantal size (QS, but not vesicle size/content) by ≥250% in dyn1-KO mice; (2) the KO-increased QS was rescued by dyn1 (but not its deficient mutant or dyn2); (3) the ratio of quantal versus subquantal events was increased by KO; (4) following a release event, more protein contents were retained in WT versus KO vesicles; and (5) the fusion pore size (d p) was increased from ≤9 to ≥9 nm by KO. Therefore, Ca2+-induced exocytosis is generally a subquantal release in sympathetic adrenal chromaffin cells, implying that neurotransmitter release is generally regulated by dynamin in neuronal cells.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Ca2+-dependent neurotransmitter release from a single vesicle is the primary event in all neurotransmission, including synaptic/neuroendocrine forms. To determine whether Ca2+-dependent vesicular neurotransmitter release is "all-or-none" (quantal), we provide compelling evidence that most Ca2+-induced secretory events occur via the subquantal mode in native adrenal chromaffin cells. This subquantal release mode is promoted by dynamin 1, which is universally required for most secretory cells, including neurons and neuroendocrine cells. The present work with dyn1-KO mice further confirms that Ca2+-dependent transmitter release is mainly via subquantal mode, suggesting that subquantal release could be also important in other types of cells.
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de Diego AMG, García AG. Altered exocytosis in chromaffin cells from mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2018; 224:e13090. [PMID: 29742321 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Chromaffin cells from the adrenal gland (CCs) have extensively been used to explore the molecular structure and function of the exocytotic machinery, neurotransmitter release and synaptic transmission. The CC is integrated in the sympathoadrenal axis that helps the body maintain homoeostasis during both routine life and in acute stress conditions. This function is exquisitely controlled by the cerebral cortex and the hypothalamus. We propose the hypothesis that damage undergone by the brain during neurodegenerative diseases is also affecting the neurosecretory function of adrenal medullary CCs. In this context, we review here the following themes: (i) How the discharge of catecholamines is centrally and peripherally regulated at the sympathoadrenal axis; (ii) which are the intricacies of the amperometric techniques used to study the quantal release of single-vesicle exocytotic events; (iii) which are the alterations of the exocytotic fusion pore so far reported, in CCs of mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases; (iv) how some proteins linked to neurodegenerative pathologies affect the kinetics of exocytotic events; (v) finally, we try to integrate available data into a hypothesis to explain how the centrally originated neurodegenerative diseases may alter the kinetics of single-vesicle exocytotic events in peripheral adrenal medullary CCs.
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- A. M. García de Diego
- Instituto Teófilo Hernando; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria; Hospital Universitario de la Princesa; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
- DNS Neuroscience; Parque Científico de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria; Hospital Universitario de la Princesa; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
- DNS Neuroscience; Parque Científico de Madrid; Madrid Spain
- Departamento de Farmacología y Terapéutica; Facultad de Medicina; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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Wang L, Xu SW, Xu HR, Song YL, Liu JT, Luo JP, Cai XX. Spatio-temporally resolved measurement of quantal exocytosis from single cells using microelectrode array modified with poly l-lysine and poly dopamine. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2016.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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He LL, Zhang QF, Wang LC, Dai JX, Wang CH, Zheng LH, Zhou Z. Muscarinic inhibition of nicotinic transmission in rat sympathetic neurons and adrenal chromaffin cells. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2016; 370:rstb.2014.0188. [PMID: 26009767 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Little is known about the interactions between nicotinic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs and mAChRs). Here we report that methacholine (MCh), a selective agonist of mAChRs, inhibited up to 80% of nicotine-induced nAChR currents in sympathetic superior cervical ganglion neurons and adrenal chromaffin cells. The muscarine-induced inhibition (MiI) substantially reduced ACh-induced membrane currents through nAChRs and quantal neurotransmitter release. The MiI was time- and temperature-dependent. The slow recovery of nAChR current after washout of MCh, as well as the high value of Q10 (3.2), suggested, instead of a direct open-channel blockade, an intracellular metabotropic process. The effects of GTP-γ-S, GDP-β-S and pertussis toxin suggested that MiI was mediated by G-protein signalling. Inhibitors of protein kinase C (bisindolymaleimide-Bis), protein kinase A (H89) and PIP2 depletion attenuated the MiI, indicating that a second messenger pathway is involved in this process. Taken together, these data suggest that mAChRs negatively modulated nAChRs via a G-protein-mediated second messenger pathway. The time dependence suggests that MiI may provide a novel mechanism for post-synaptic adaptation in all cells/neurons and synapses expressing both types of AChRs.
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- Lin-Ling He
- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Li YT, Zhang SH, Wang XY, Zhang XW, Oleinick AI, Svir I, Amatore C, Huang WH. Real-time Monitoring of Discrete Synaptic Release Events and Excitatory Potentials within Self-reconstructed Neuromuscular Junctions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:9313-8. [PMID: 26079517 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Chemical synaptic transmission is central to the brain functions. In this regard, real-time monitoring of chemical synaptic transmission during neuronal communication remains a great challenge. In this work, in vivo-like oriented neural networks between superior cervical ganglion (SCG) neurons and their effector smooth muscle cells (SMC) were assembled in a microfluidic device. This allowed amperometric detection of individual neurotransmitter release events inside functional SCG-SMC synapse with carbon fiber nanoelectrodes as well as recording of postsynaptic potential using glass nanopipette electrodes. The high vesicular release activities essentially involved complex events arising from flickering fusion pores as quantitatively established based on simulations. This work allowed for the first time monitoring in situ chemical synaptic transmission under conditions close to those found in vivo, which may yield important and new insights into the nature of neuronal communications.
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- Yu-Tao Li
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China)
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China)
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China)
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China)
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Chimie, UMR 8640 (CNRS-ENS-UPMC and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris(France)
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Chimie, UMR 8640 (CNRS-ENS-UPMC and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris(France)
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Chimie, UMR 8640 (CNRS-ENS-UPMC and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris(France).
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, and LIA NanoBioCatEchem, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China).
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Li YT, Zhang SH, Wang XY, Zhang XW, Oleinick AI, Svir I, Amatore C, Huang WH. Real-time Monitoring of Discrete Synaptic Release Events and Excitatory Potentials within Self-reconstructed Neuromuscular Junctions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Li YT, Zhang SH, Wang L, Xiao RR, Liu W, Zhang XW, Zhou Z, Amatore C, Huang WH. Nanoelectrode for Amperometric Monitoring of Individual Vesicular Exocytosis Inside Single Synapses. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201404744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Li YT, Zhang SH, Wang L, Xiao RR, Liu W, Zhang XW, Zhou Z, Amatore C, Huang WH. Nanoelectrode for amperometric monitoring of individual vesicular exocytosis inside single synapses. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:12456-60. [PMID: 25060546 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2014] [Revised: 06/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Chemical neurotransmission occurs at chemical synapses and endocrine glands, but up to now there was no means for direct monitoring of neurotransmitter exocytosis fluxes and their precise kinetics from inside an individual synapse. The fabrication of a novel finite conical nanoelectrode is reported perfectly suited in size and electrochemical properties for probing amperometrically inside what appears to be single synapses and monitoring individual vesicular exocytotic events in real time. This allowed obtaining direct and important physiological evidences which may yield important and new insights into the nature of synaptic communications.
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- Yu-Tao Li
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 (China)
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The real catecholamine content of secretory vesicles in the CNS revealed by electrochemical cytometry. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1447. [PMID: 23486177 PMCID: PMC3596796 DOI: 10.1038/srep01447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Resolution of synaptic vesicle neurotransmitter content has mostly been limited to the study of stimulated release in cultured cell systems, and it has been controversial as to whether synaptic vesicle transmitter levels are saturated in vivo. We use electrochemical cytometry to count dopamine molecules in individual synaptic vesicles in populations directly sampled from brain tissue. Vesicles from the striatum yield an average of 33,000 dopamine molecules per vesicle, an amount considerably greater than typically measured during quantal release at cultured neurons. Vesicular content was markedly increased by L-DOPA or decreased by reserpine in a time-dependent manner in response to in vivo administration of drugs known to alter dopamine release. We investigated the effects of the psychostimulant amphetamine on vesicle content, finding that vesicular transmitter is rapidly depleted by 50% following in vivo administration, supporting the “weak base hypothesis” that amphetamine reduces synaptic vesicle transmitter and quantal size.
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Wickham RJ, Solecki W, Rathbun LR, Neugebauer NM, Wightman RM, Addy NA. Advances in studying phasic dopamine signaling in brain reward mechanisms. Front Biosci (Elite Ed) 2013; 5:982-99. [PMID: 23747914 DOI: 10.2741/e678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The last sixty years of research has provided extraordinary advances of our knowledge of the reward system. Since its discovery as a neurotransmitter by Carlsson and colleagues (1), dopamine (DA) has emerged as an important mediator of reward processing. As a result, a number of electrochemical techniques have been developed to measure DA in the brain. Together, these techniques have begun to elucidate the complex roles of tonic and phasic DA signaling in reward processing and addiction. In this review, we will first provide a guide for the most commonly used electrochemical methods for DA detection and describe their utility in furthering our knowledge about DA's role in reward and addiction. Second, we will review the value of common in vitro and in vivo preparations and describe their ability to address different types of questions. Last, we will review recent data that has provided new mechanistic insight of in vivo phasic DA signaling and its role in reward processing and reward-mediated behavior.
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- Robert J Wickham
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Wang J, Trouillon R, Lin Y, Svensson MI, Ewing AG. Individually addressable thin-film ultramicroelectrode array for spatial measurements of single vesicle release. Anal Chem 2013; 85:5600-8. [PMID: 23627439 DOI: 10.1021/ac4009385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Thin-film platinum ultramicroelectrode arrays (MEAs) with subcellular microelectrodes were developed for the spatial measurement of neurotransmitter release across single cells or clusters of single cells. MEAs consisting of 16, 25, and 36 square ultramicroelectrodes with respective widths of 4, 3, and 2 μm were fabricated on glass substrates by photolithography, thin-film deposition, and reactive ion etching. The electrodes in each MEA are tightly defined in a 30 μm × 30 μm square, which is potentially useful to measure exocytosis across a single cell or clusters of single cells. These MEAs have been characterized with scanning electron microscopy and cyclic voltammetry and show excellent stability and reproducibility. Culturing PC12 cells on top of the MEAs has been achieved by modifying the array with a poly(dimethylsiloxane) chamber and coating a thin layer of collagen IV on top of the electrode surface. The electrochemical response to dopamine has been characterized after coating the surface with the cell-adhering molecules and then with cells attached. Amperometric detection demonstrates that individual exocytotic events can be recorded at these arrays with spatial resolution for dynamic electrochemical measurements near 2 μm. In contrast to previous single-cell experiments, the effect of dopaminergic drugs on imaging single vesicle exocytotic release from PC12 cell clusters is presented at cell clusters incubated with the dopamine precursor and Parkinson's therapy agent, L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, and at cell clusters incubated with the vesicular monoamine transport inhibitor, reserpine. The results of electrochemical imaging demonstrate that the drug effect on PC12 cell clusters is consistent with previous single-cell experiments.
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- Jun Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
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The discovery of the sensory nature of the carotid body dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. Following these seminal discoveries, research into carotid body mechanisms moved forward progressively through the 20th century, with many descriptions of the ultrastructure of the organ and stimulus-response measurements at the level of the whole organ. The later part of 20th century witnessed the first descriptions of the cellular responses and electrophysiology of isolated and cultured type I and type II cells, and there now exist a number of testable hypotheses of chemotransduction. The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of current concepts on sensory transduction and transmission of the hypoxic stimulus at the carotid body with an emphasis on integrating cellular mechanisms with the whole organ responses and highlighting the gaps or discrepancies in our knowledge. It is increasingly evident that in addition to hypoxia, the carotid body responds to a wide variety of blood-borne stimuli, including reduced glucose and immune-related cytokines and we therefore also consider the evidence for a polymodal function of the carotid body and its implications. It is clear that the sensory function of the carotid body exhibits considerable plasticity in response to the chronic perturbations in environmental O2 that is associated with many physiological and pathological conditions. The mechanisms and consequences of carotid body plasticity in health and disease are discussed in the final sections of this article.
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- Prem Kumar
- School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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Watson DJ, Gummi RR, Papke JB, Harkins AB. Analysis of Amperometric Spike Shapes to Release Vesicles. ELECTROANAL 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.201100441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Kim D, Koseoglu S, Manning BM, Meyer AF, Haynes CL. Electroanalytical eavesdropping on single cell communication. Anal Chem 2011; 83:7242-9. [PMID: 21766792 PMCID: PMC3184337 DOI: 10.1021/ac200666c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This article reviews measurement of single cell exocytosis with microelectrodes, covering history, basic instrumentation, cell types investigated, and fundamental insight gained.
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Wang SR, Yao W, Huang HP, Zhang B, Zuo PL, Sun L, Dou HQ, Li Q, Kang XJ, Xu HD, Hu MQ, Jin M, Zhang L, Mu Y, Peng JY, Zhang CX, Ding JP, Li BM, Zhou Z. Role of vesicle pools in action potential pattern-dependent dopamine overflow in rat striatum in vivo. J Neurochem 2011; 119:342-53. [PMID: 21854394 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2011.07440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Action potential (AP) patterns and dopamine (DA) release are known to correlate with rewarding behaviors, but how codes of AP bursts translate into DA release in vivo remains elusive. Here, a given AP pattern was defined by four codes, termed total AP number, frequency, number of AP bursts, and interburst time [N, f, b, i].. The 'burst effect' was calculated by the ratio (γ) of DA overflow by multiple bursts to that of a single burst when total AP number was fixed. By stimulating the medial forebrain bundle using AP codes at either physiological (20 Hz) or supraphysiological (80 Hz) frequencies, we found that DA was released from two kinetically distinct vesicle pools, the fast-releasable pool (FRP) and prolonged-releasable pool (PRP), in striatal dopaminergic terminals in vivo. We examined the effects of vesicle pools on AP-pattern dependent DA overflow and found, with given 'burst codes' [b=8, i=0.5 s], a large total AP number [N = 768, f = 80 Hz] produced a facilitating burst-effect (γ[b8/b1] = 126 ± 3%), while a small total AP number [N=96, 80 Hz] triggered a depressing-burst-effect (γ[b8/b1] = 29 ± 4%). Furthermore, we found that the PRP (but not the FRP) predominantly contributed to the facilitating-burst-effect and the FRP played an important role in the depressing-burst effect. Thus, our results suggest that striatal DA release captures pre-synaptic AP pattern information through different releasable pools.
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- Shi-Rong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Bioengineering, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Hökfelt T. Looking at neurotransmitters in the microscope. Prog Neurobiol 2009; 90:101-18. [PMID: 19853008 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2009.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2009] [Revised: 04/16/2009] [Accepted: 10/08/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This review article covers the early period of my career. I first summarize research initiated by the late Nils-Ake Hillarp, after his appointment in 1962 as professor in the Department of Histology at Karolinska Institutet. He only lived for three more years, but during this short period he started up a group of ten students who explored various aspects of the three monoamine transmitters, dopamine, noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine, using the new formaldehyde fluorescence method developed by Bengt Falck and Hillarp in Lund. This method allowed visualization of the cellular localization in the microscope of these monoamines, which introduced a new discipline in neurobiology-chemical neuroanatomy. I then deal with work aiming at localizing the monoamines at the ultrastructural level, as well as attempts to use radioactively labeled aminoacids, especially gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and autoradiography, to identify, in the microscope, neurons using such transmitters. Finally, our immunohistochemical work together with Kjell Fuxe and the late Menek Goldstein, using antibodies to four monoamine-synthesizing enzymes is summarized, including some aspects on the adrenaline neurons, which had escaped detection with the Falck-Hillarp technique.
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- Tomas Hökfelt
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
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For more than three decades, the venom of the black widow spider and its principal active components, latrotoxins, have been used to induce release of neurotransmitters and hormones and to study the mechanisms of exocytosis. Given the complex nature of alpha--latrotoxin (alpha-LTX) actions, this research has been continuously overshadowed by many enigmas, misconceptions and perpetual changes of the underlying hypotheses. Some of the toxin's mechanisms of action are still not completely understood. Despite all these difficulties, the extensive work of several generations of neurobiologists has brought about a great deal of fascinating insights into pre-synaptic processes and has led to the discovery of several novel proteins and synaptic systems. For example, alpha-LTX studies have contributed to the widespread acceptance of the vesicular theory of transmitter release. Pre-synaptic receptors for alpha-LTX--neurexins, latrophilins and protein tyrosine phosphatase sigma--and their endogenous ligands have now become centrepieces of their own areas of research, with a potential of uncovering new mechanisms of synapse formation and regulation that may have medical implications. However, any future success of alpha-LTX research will require a better understanding of this unusual natural tool and a more precise dissection of its multiple mechanisms.
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- John-Paul Silva
- Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK
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Monitoring of vesicular exocytosis from single cells using micrometer and nanometer-sized electrochemical sensors. Anal Bioanal Chem 2009; 394:17-32. [PMID: 19274456 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-2703-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2008] [Revised: 02/07/2009] [Accepted: 02/10/2009] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Communication between cells by release of specific chemical messengers via exocytosis plays crucial roles in biological process. Electrochemical detection based on ultramicroelectrodes (UMEs) has become one of the most powerful techniques in real-time monitoring of an extremely small number of released molecules during very short time scales, owing to its intrinsic advantages such as fast response, excellent sensitivity, and high spatiotemporal resolution. Great successes have been achieved in the use of UME methods to obtain quantitative and kinetic information about released chemical messengers and to reveal the molecular mechanism in vesicular exocytosis. In this paper, we review recent developments in monitoring exocytosis by use of UMEs-electrochemical-based techniques including electrochemical detection using micrometer and nanometer-sized sensors, scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), and UMEs implemented in lab-on-a-chip (LOC) microsystems. These advances are of great significance in obtaining a better understanding of vesicular exocytosis and chemical communications between cells, and will facilitate developments in many fields, including analytical chemistry, biological science, and medicine. Furthermore, future developments in electrochemical probing of exocytosis are also proposed.
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Amatore C, Arbault S, Guille M, Lemaître F. Electrochemical Monitoring of Single Cell Secretion: Vesicular Exocytosis and Oxidative Stress. Chem Rev 2008; 108:2585-621. [DOI: 10.1021/cr068062g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hernandez CC, Zaika O, Tolstykh GP, Shapiro MS. Regulation of neural KCNQ channels: signalling pathways, structural motifs and functional implications. J Physiol 2008; 586:1811-21. [PMID: 18238808 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.148304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Neural M-type (KCNQ/Kv7) K(+) channels control somatic excitability, bursting and neurotransmitter release throughout the nervous system. Their activity is regulated by multiple signalling pathways. In superior cervical ganglion sympathetic neurons, muscarinic M(1), angiotensin II AT(1), bradykinin B(2) and purinergic P2Y agonists suppress M current (I(M)). Probes of PLC activity show agonists of all four receptors to induce robust PIP(2) hydrolysis. We have grouped these receptors into two related modes of action. One mode involves depletion of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)) in the membrane, whose interaction with the channels is thought necessary for their function. The other involves IP(3)-mediated intracellular Ca(2+) signals that stimulate PIP(2) synthesis, preventing its depletion, and suppress I(M) via calmodulin. Carbon-fibre amperometry can evaluate the effect of M channel activity on release of neurotransmitter. Consistent with the dominant role of M current in control of neuronal discharge, M channel openers, or blockers, reduced or augmented the evoked release of noradrenaline neurotransmitter from superior cervical ganglion (SCG) neurons, respectively. We seek to localize the subdomains on the channels critical to their regulation by PIP(2). Based on single-channel recordings from chimeras between high-PIP(2) affinity KCNQ3 and low-PIP(2) affinity KCNQ4 channels, we focus on a 57-residue domain within the carboxy-terminus that is a possible PIP(2) binding site. Homology modelling of this domain using the published structure of IRK1 channels as a template predicts a structure very similar to an analogous region in IRK1 channels, and shows a cluster of basic residues in the KCNQ2 domain to correspond to those implicated in PIP(2) regulation of Kir channels. We discuss some important issues dealing with these topics.
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- Ciria C Hernandez
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Physiology, MS 7756, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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Chiti Z, Teschemacher AG. Exocytosis of norepinephrine at axon varicosities and neuronal cell bodies in the rat brain. FASEB J 2007; 21:2540-50. [PMID: 17405853 DOI: 10.1096/fj.06-7342com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Norepinephrine secretion from central neurons was widely assumed to occur by exocytosis, but the essential characteristics of this process remained unknown. We developed an approach to study it directly by amperometry using carbon fiber microelectrodes in organotypic rat brainstem slice cultures. Noradrenergic neurons from areas A1 and A2 were fluorescently labeled by an adenoviral vector with noradrenergic-specific promoter. Quantal events, consistent with exocytotic release of norepinephrine, were registered at noradrenergic axonal varicosities as well as at cell bodies. According to their charge integrals, events were grouped into two populations. The majority (approximately 40 fC) were compatible with full exocytotic fusion of small clear and dense core vesicles shown in previous morphometric studies. The quantal size distribution was modulated by treatment with reserpine and amitriptyline. In addition, much larger quantal events (>1 pC) occurred at predominantly axonal release sites. The time course of signals was severalfold faster than in adrenal chromaffin cells, suggesting profound differences in the release machinery between these cell types. Tetrodotoxin eliminated the majority of events, indicating that release was partially, but not entirely, action potential driven. In conclusion, central norepinephrine release has unique characteristics, distinguishing it from those of other monoaminergic cells in periphery and brain.
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- Zohreh Chiti
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
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Huang HP, Wang SR, Yao W, Zhang C, Zhou Y, Chen XW, Zhang B, Xiong W, Wang LY, Zheng LH, Landry M, Hökfelt T, Xu ZQD, Zhou Z. Long latency of evoked quantal transmitter release from somata of locus coeruleus neurons in rat pontine slices. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:1401-6. [PMID: 17227848 PMCID: PMC1783087 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608897104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The locus coeruleus (LC) harbors a compact group of noradrenergic cell bodies projecting to virtually all parts of the central nervous system. By using combined measurements of amperometry and patch-clamp, quantal vesicle release of noradrenaline (NA) was detected as amperometric spikes, after depolarization of the LC neurons. After a pulse depolarization, the average latency of amperometric spikes was 1,870 ms, whereas the latency of glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents was 1.6 ms. A substantial fraction of the depolarization-induced amperometric spikes originated from the somata. In contrast to glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents, NA secretion was strongly modulated by the action potential frequency (0.5-50 Hz). Somatodendritic NA release from LC upon enhanced cell activity produced autoinhibition of firing and of NA release. We conclude that, in contrast to classic synaptic transmission, quantal NA release from LC somata is characterized by a number of distinct properties, including long latency and high sensitivity to action potential frequency.
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- H.-P. Huang
- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale E358, Institut Francois Magendie, Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, 33077 Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 71 Stockholm, Sweden; and
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 71 Stockholm, Sweden; and
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- *Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for the Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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Krapivinsky G, Mochida S, Krapivinsky L, Cibulsky SM, Clapham DE. The TRPM7 ion channel functions in cholinergic synaptic vesicles and affects transmitter release. Neuron 2007; 52:485-96. [PMID: 17088214 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.09.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2006] [Revised: 07/24/2006] [Accepted: 09/18/2006] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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A longstanding hypothesis is that ion channels are present in the membranes of synaptic vesicles and might affect neurotransmitter release. Here we demonstrate that TRPM7, a member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel family, resides in the membrane of synaptic vesicles of sympathetic neurons, forms molecular complexes with the synaptic vesicle proteins synapsin I and synaptotagmin I, and directly interacts with synaptic vesicular snapin. In sympathetic neurons, changes in TRPM7 levels and channel activity alter acetylcholine release, as measured by EPSP amplitudes and decay times in postsynaptic neurons. TRPM7 affects EPSP quantal size, an intrinsic property of synaptic vesicle release. Targeted peptide interference of TRPM7's interaction with snapin affects the amplitudes and kinetics of postsynaptic EPSPs. Thus, vesicular TRPM7 channel activity is critical to neurotransmitter release in sympathetic neurons.
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- Grigory Krapivinsky
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, 1309 Enders Building, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
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Schwarz TL. Transmitter release at the neuromuscular junction. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2006; 75:105-44. [PMID: 17137926 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(06)75006-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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- Thomas L Schwarz
- Program in Neurobiology, Children's Hospital and Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Yao LJ, Wang G, Ou-Yang KF, Wei CL, Wang XH, Wang SR, Yao W, Huang HP, Luo JH, Wu CH, Liu J, Zhou Z, Cheng HP. Ca2+ sparks and Ca2+ glows in superior cervical ganglion neurons. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2006; 27:848-52. [PMID: 16787568 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2006.00402.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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AIM Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an integral component of neuronal Ca2+ signaling. The present study is to investigate properties of local Ca2+ release events in superior cervical ganglion (SCG) neurons. METHODS Primary cultured SCG neurons were prepared from neonatal rats (P3-P7). Low concentration of caffeine was used to induce Ca2+ release from the ER Ca2+ store, and intracellular Ca2+ was recorded by high-resolution line scan confocal imaging and the Ca2+ indicator Fluo-4. RESULTS Two populations of local Ca2+ release events with distinct temporal characteristics were evoked by 1.5 mmol/L caffeine near the surface membrane in the soma and the neurites of SCG neurons. Brief events similar to classic Ca2+ sparks lasted a few hundreds of milliseconds, whereas long-lasting events displayed duration up to tens of seconds. Typical somatic and neurite sparks were of 0.3- and 0.52-fold increase in local Fluo-4 fluorescence, respectively. Typical Ca2+ glows were brighter (deltaF/F0 approximately 0.6), but were highly confined in space. The half maximum of full duration of neurite sparks was much longer than those in the soma (685 vs 381 ms). CONCLUSION Co-existence of Ca2+ sparks and Ca2+ glows in SCG neurons indicates distinctive local regulation of Ca2+ release kinetics. The local Ca2+ signals of variable, site-specific temporal length may bear important implications in encoding a 'memory' of the trigger signal.
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- Li-jun Yao
- Department of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310031, China
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Chen X, Wang L, Zhou Y, Zheng LH, Zhou Z. "Kiss-and-run" glutamate secretion in cultured and freshly isolated rat hippocampal astrocytes. J Neurosci 2005; 25:9236-43. [PMID: 16207883 PMCID: PMC6725768 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1640-05.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Under physiological conditions, astrocytes not only passively support and nourish adjacent neurons, but also actively modulate neuronal transmission by releasing "glial transmitters," such as glutamate, ATP, and D-serine. Unlike the case for neurons, the mechanisms by which glia release transmitters are essentially unknown. Here, by using electrochemical amperometry and frequency-modulated single-vesicle imaging, we discovered that hippocampal astrocytes exhibit two modes of exocytosis of glutamate in response to various stimuli. After physiological stimulation, a glial vesicle releases a quantal content that is only 10% of that induced by nonphysiological, mechanical stimulation. The small release event arises from a brief (approximately 2 ms) opening of the fusion pore. We conclude that, after physiological stimulation, astrocytes release glutamate via a vesicular "kiss-and-run" mechanism.
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- Xiaoke Chen
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Amperometry is widely used to study exocytosis of neurotransmitters and hormones in various cell types. Analysis of the shape of the amperometric spikes that originate from the oxidation of monoamine molecules released during the fusion of individual secretory vesicles provides information about molecular steps involved in stimulation-dependent transmitter release. Here we present an overview of the methodology of amperometric signal processing, including (i) amperometric signal acquisition and filtering, (ii) detection of exocytotic events and determining spike shape characteristics, and (iii) data manipulation and statistical analysis. The purpose of this review is to provide practical guidelines for performing amperometric recordings of exocytotic activity and interpreting the results based on shape characteristics of individual release events.
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- Eugene V Mosharov
- Department of Neurology, Black Building 305, 650 W 168th Street, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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Misler S, Dickey A, Barnett DW. Maintenance of stimulus-secretion coupling and single beta-cell function in cryopreserved-thawed human islets of Langerhans. Pflugers Arch 2005; 450:395-404. [PMID: 15988591 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-005-1401-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2005] [Accepted: 02/18/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Studies of stimulus-secretion coupling in human beta-cells have been hampered by poor availability of tissue due to variability of the supply of cadaver pancreati and in the adequacy of enzymatic liberation of islets as well as by the shunting of isolates into transplant trials. Here we establish that aliquots of islets, several from high-quality but low-yield islet isolates (50,000-100,000 islets), cryopreserved and then thawed as needed, respond to glucose in a calcium- and metabolic-dependent fashion. Insulin secretion is modulated by blockers of voltage-dependent Na+ and Ca2+ channels, and paracrine hormones (glucagon and somatostatin) in manners indistinguishable from fresh tissue preparations. Using single-cell electrophysiological and electrochemical assays we demonstrate that single beta-cells from cryopreserved islets display (1) stimulus-depolarization coupling based on rapid closure of K+ (ATP) channels; (2) action potential electrogenesis with upstrokes based on voltage-dependent Na and Ca currents; and (3) Ca2+ entry-mediated depolarization-exocytosis coupling sustained over multiple bouts of stimulation and modulated by paracrine hormones. All of these features are indistinguishable from those seen in single cells from freshly harvested islets. These results support the utility of cryopreservation, even of low-yield but functional isolates, as a means of ensuring a steady source of repeatedly accessible tissue for research on normal and diabetic islets.
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- Stanley Misler
- Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University Medical Center, Box 8126, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Sasakawa N, Murayama N, Kumakura K. Characterization of Exocytotic Events From Single PC12 Cells: Amperometric Studies in Native PC12h, DA-Loaded PC12h and Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2005; 25:777-87. [PMID: 16075391 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-005-3975-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2004] [Accepted: 06/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Exocytotic events from rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells were characterized by amperometric analysis. For single-cell amperometric recordings, PC12h cells cultured onto poly-L-lysine corted glass-base dish were incubated with 1 mM dopamine (DA) for 60 min. Amperometric recordings, with a carbon fiber microelectrode (5 mum diameter), of catecholamine release from the individual cells were conducted under an inverted microscope at 25 degrees C. To characterize a single exocytotic event that is detected as a single spike current, the spike number, spike parameters (rise time, middle width and area) and spike shape were analyzed. Exposure of DA-loaded PC12h cells to 60 mM KCl (1000 hps) for 5 min and for 4 s evoked a train of events with the event number of 114+/-19 (spikes/response for 5 min) and 12+/-3 (spikes/response for 15 s), respectively. We observed distinctive kinetics in the events (rise time=0.83+/-0.19 ms, middle width=2.89+/-0.62 ms, area=62+/-7.6 fC and the spikes with a "foot"=15.4+/-2.7% of total spikes). The number and mean height of the events were 3- to 4-fold higher than that in DA-unloaded cells, and the values of rise time and middle width in DA-loaded PC12h cells were approx. 5- and 10-fold less than those observed in cultured adrenal chromaffin cells. The successful application of amperometry to monitor DA released from secretory vesicles in DA-loaded PC12h cell suggest that this technique is applicable to characterize exocytotic events in neurons.
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- Nobuyuki Sasakawa
- Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology, Life Science Institute, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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He LL, Yang YL, Duan SM, Zhou Z. WITHDRAWN: Inhibitory effects of D-Serine on hippocampal synapse transmission. Glia 2004. [PMID: 15390123 DOI: 10.1002/glia.10344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Lin-Ling He
- Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Exocytic fusion reactions triggered by Ca(2+) are widespread in neural, endocrine, exocrine, hemapoetic and perhaps all cell types. These processes exhibit tremendous variation in latencies to fusion following a Ca(2+) rise and in rates of fusion. We review reported differences for synaptic vesicle (SV) and dense-core vesicle (DCV) exocytosis and attempt to identify key features in the molecular mechanisms of docking, priming and fusion of SVs and DCVs that may account for differences in speed.
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- Thomas F J Martin
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Blair DH, Lin YQ, Bennett MR. Differential sensitivity to calcium and osmotic pressure of fast and slow ATP currents at sympathetic varicosities in mouse vas deferens. Auton Neurosci 2003; 105:45-52. [PMID: 12742190 DOI: 10.1016/s1566-0702(03)00025-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Secretion of noradrenaline from large dense-core vesicles in chromaffin cells involves both rapid and slow components of exocytosis which are differentially sensitive to changes in external calcium, osmotic pressure and interruption of the interacting SNARE proteins. Electrical signs of secretion of ATP from sympathetic nerve terminals of mouse vas deferens, the excitatory junctional currents (EJCs), also indicate both rapid and slow mechanisms of exocytosis, which might also show such differential sensitivity. We report here that the large and fast EJCs are highly sensitive to changes in extracellular calcium ions whereas the small and slow EJCs are not. Furthermore, the frequency of fast EJCs is accelerated by hypotonic solutions whereas the slow EJCs are accelerated by hypertonic solution. Fast EJCs, but not slow EJCs, are blocked by peptide fragments of alpha-SNAP and syntaxin whereas slow EJCs are not. These observations point to two classes of exocytosis from sympathetic nerve terminals that parallel those of exocytosis from chromaffin cells.
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- Duncan H Blair
- Department of Physiology and Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Payet MD, Bilodeau L, Breault L, Fournier A, Yon L, Vaudry H, Gallo-Payet N. PAC1 receptor activation by PACAP-38 mediates Ca2+ release from a cAMP-dependent pool in human fetal adrenal gland chromaffin cells. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:1663-70. [PMID: 12429744 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m206470200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Previous studies have shown that human fetal adrenal gland from 17- to 20-week-old fetuses expressed pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) receptors, which were localized on chromaffin cells. The aim of the present study was to identify PACAP receptor isoforms and to determine whether PACAP can affect intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) and catecholamine secretion. Using primary cultures and specific stimulation of chromaffin cells, we demonstrate that PACAP-38 induced an increase in [Ca(2+)](i) that was blocked by PACAP (6-38), was independent of external Ca(2+), and originated from thapsigargin-insensitive internal stores. The PACAP-triggered Ca(2+) increase was not affected by inhibition of PLC beta (preincubation with U-73122) or by pretreatment of cells with Xestospongin C, indicating that the inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate-sensitive stores were not mobilized. However, forskolin (FSK), which raises cytosolic cAMP, induced an increase in Ca(2+) similar to that recorded with PACAP-38. Blockage of PKA by H-89 or (R(p))-cAMPS suppressed both PACAP-38 and FSK calcium responses. The effect of PACAP-38 was also abolished by emptying the caffeine/ryanodine-sensitive Ca(2+) stores. Furthermore, treatment of cells with orthovanadate (100 microm) impaired Ca(2+) reloading of PACAP-sensitive stores indicating that PACAP-38 can mobilize Ca(2+) from secretory vesicles. Moreover, PACAP induced catecholamine secretion by chromaffin cells. It is concluded that PACAP-38, through the PAC(1) receptor, acts as a neurotransmitter in human fetal chromaffin cells inducing catecholamine secretion, through nonclassical, recently described, ryanodine/caffeine-sensitive pools, involving a cAMP- and PKA-dependent phosphorylation mechanism.
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- Marcel D Payet
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 5N4, Canada.
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Zhang C, Zhou Z. Ca(2+)-independent but voltage-dependent secretion in mammalian dorsal root ganglion neurons. Nat Neurosci 2002; 5:425-30. [PMID: 11953753 DOI: 10.1038/nn845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2002] [Accepted: 03/05/2002] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We have investigated the Ca(2+) dependence of vesicular secretion from the soma of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons, which secrete neuropeptides by exocytosis of dense-core vesicles. In patch-clamped somata of rat DRG neurons, we found a depolarization-induced membrane capacitance increase (DeltaC(m)) in the absence of extracellular Ca(2+) and in the presence of a Ca(2+) chelator (BAPTA) in the intracellular solution. Depletion of internal Ca(2+) stores by thapsigargin in the Ca(2+)-free bath also did not block the DeltaC(m), indicating that Ca(2+) release from internal Ca(2+) stores may not have been involved. Furthermore, the Ca(2+)-independent DeltaC(m) was blocked by whole-cell dialysis with tetanus toxin and was accompanied by pulsatile secretion of false transmitters, as detected by amperometric measurements. These results indicate the existence of Ca(2+)-independent but voltage-dependent vesicular secretion (CIVDS) in a mammalian sensory neuron.
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- C Zhang
- Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China
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Heidelberger R. Electrophysiological approaches to the study of neuronal exocytosis and synaptic vesicle dynamics. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 2001; 143:1-80. [PMID: 11428263 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0115592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- R Heidelberger
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, W.M. Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Houston Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77025, USA
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Puopolo M, Hochstetler SE, Gustincich S, Wightman RM, Raviola E. Extrasynaptic release of dopamine in a retinal neuron: activity dependence and transmitter modulation. Neuron 2001; 30:211-25. [PMID: 11343656 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00274-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Extrasynaptic release of dopamine is well documented, but its relation to the physiological activity of the neuron is unclear. Here we show that in absence of presynaptic active zones, solitary cell bodies of retinal dopaminergic neurons release by exocytosis packets of approximately 40,000 molecules of dopamine at irregular intervals and low frequency. The release is triggered by the action potentials that the neurons generate in a rhythmic fashion upon removal of all synaptic influences and therefore depends upon the electrical events at the neuronal surface. Furthermore, it is stimulated by kainate and abolished by GABA and quinpirole, an agonist at the D(2) dopamine receptor. Since the somatic receptors for these ligands are extrasynaptic, we suggest that the composition of the extracellular fluid directly modulates extrasynaptic release.
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- M Puopolo
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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