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Sato Y. Effects of hyperbaric oxygen pre-exposure on the motor learning acquisition phase. Behav Brain Res 2024:115243. [PMID: 39278465 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2024] [Revised: 09/02/2024] [Accepted: 09/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/18/2024]
Abstract
Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) exposure has recently been reported to be effective in spatial learning and memory. Additionally, HBO exposure considerably improves performance on motor tasks. These findings suggest that HBO exposure may facilitate motor learning. However, the specific effects of HBO exposure on motor learning remain largely unexplored. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of HBO exposure on motor learning tasks. In the experimental animal models (control n = 8, HBO n = 8), the HBO environment was exposed to 100% oxygen with the chamber at 2.0 atmosphere absolute (ATA) for 90min/day for 20 days. The motor learning task was an accelerated rotating bar task (bar width, 3 and 6cm; rotation speed, 4-40rpm; acceleration, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8rpm/s). The learning task was performed for 3 consecutive days. The HBO group showed a main effect of the day factor on the bar with a width of 6cm, and significant differences were observed for each day comparison. However, no main effect of the day factor was observed in the control group. Additionally, significant differences were found in the bar with a width of 3cm for both groups between days 1 and 2 and between days 1 and 3. In conclusion, these findings suggest that HBO exposure has a positive effect on more challenging motor learning tasks.
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- Yamato Sato
- Laboratory of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Creative Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba Japan.
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Kommaddi RP, Gowaikar R, P A H, Diwakar L, Singh K, Mondal A. Akt activation ameliorates deficits in hippocampal-dependent memory and activity-dependent synaptic protein synthesis in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:105619. [PMID: 38182004 PMCID: PMC10839450 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024] Open
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Protein kinase-B (Akt) and the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathways are implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Akt/mTOR signaling pathways, activated by external inputs, enable new protein synthesis at the synapse and synaptic plasticity. The molecular mechanisms impeding new protein synthesis at the synapse in AD pathogenesis remain elusive. Here, we aimed to understand the molecular mechanisms prior to the manifestation of histopathological hallmarks by characterizing Akt1/mTOR signaling cascades and new protein synthesis in the hippocampus of WT and amyloid precursor protein/presenilin-1 (APP/PS1) male mice. Intriguingly, compared to those in WT mice, we found significant decreases in pAkt1, pGSK3β, pmTOR, pS6 ribosomal protein, and p4E-BP1 levels in both post nuclear supernatant and synaptosomes isolated from the hippocampus of one-month-old (presymptomatic) APP/PS1 mice. In synaptoneurosomes prepared from the hippocampus of presymptomatic APP/PS1 mice, activity-dependent protein synthesis at the synapse was impaired and this deficit was sustained in young adults. In hippocampal neurons from C57BL/6 mice, downregulation of Akt1 precluded synaptic activity-dependent protein synthesis at the dendrites but not in the soma. In three-month-old APP/PS1 mice, Akt activator (SC79) administration restored deficits in memory recall and activity-dependent synaptic protein synthesis. C57BL/6 mice administered with an Akt inhibitor (MK2206) resulted in memory recall deficits compared to those treated with vehicle. We conclude that dysregulation of Akt1/mTOR and its downstream signaling molecules in the hippocampus contribute to memory recall deficits and loss of activity-dependent synaptic protein synthesis. In AD mice, however, Akt activation ameliorates deficits in memory recall and activity-dependent synaptic protein synthesis.
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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Rahman M, Nguyen TM, Lee GJ, Kim B, Park MK, Lee CH. Unraveling the Role of Ras Homolog Enriched in Brain (Rheb1 and Rheb2): Bridging Neuronal Dynamics and Cancer Pathogenesis through Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Signaling. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1489. [PMID: 38338768 PMCID: PMC10855792 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25031489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Revised: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Ras homolog enriched in brain (Rheb1 and Rheb2), small GTPases, play a crucial role in regulating neuronal activity and have gained attention for their implications in cancer development, particularly in breast cancer. This study delves into the intricate connection between the multifaceted functions of Rheb1 in neurons and cancer, with a specific focus on the mTOR pathway. It aims to elucidate Rheb1's involvement in pivotal cellular processes such as proliferation, apoptosis resistance, migration, invasion, metastasis, and inflammatory responses while acknowledging that Rheb2 has not been extensively studied. Despite the recognized associations, a comprehensive understanding of the intricate interplay between Rheb1 and Rheb2 and their roles in both nerve and cancer remains elusive. This review consolidates current knowledge regarding the impact of Rheb1 on cancer hallmarks and explores the potential of Rheb1 as a therapeutic target in cancer treatment. It emphasizes the necessity for a deeper comprehension of the molecular mechanisms underlying Rheb1-mediated oncogenic processes, underscoring the existing gaps in our understanding. Additionally, the review highlights the exploration of Rheb1 inhibitors as a promising avenue for cancer therapy. By shedding light on the complicated roles between Rheb1/Rheb2 and cancer, this study provides valuable insights to the scientific community. These insights are instrumental in guiding the identification of novel targets and advancing the development of effective therapeutic strategies for treating cancer.
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- Mostafizur Rahman
- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea; (M.R.); (G.J.L.)
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- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea; (M.R.); (G.J.L.)
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- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea; (M.R.); (G.J.L.)
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- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea; (M.R.); (G.J.L.)
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- Department of BioHealthcare, Hwasung Medi-Science University, Hwaseong-si 18274, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea; (M.R.); (G.J.L.)
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Muslimov IA, Berardi V, Stephenson S, Ginzler EM, Hanly JG, Tiedge H. Autoimmune RNA dysregulation and seizures: therapeutic prospects in neuropsychiatric lupus. Life Sci Alliance 2022; 5:5/12/e202201496. [PMID: 36229064 PMCID: PMC9559755 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202201496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Lupus autoimmunity frequently presents with neuropsychiatric manifestations, but underlying etiology remains poorly understood. Human brain cytoplasmic 200 RNA (BC200 RNA) is a translational regulator in neuronal synapto-dendritic domains. Here, we show that a BC200 guanosine-adenosine dendritic transport motif is recognized by autoantibodies from a subset of neuropsychiatric lupus patients. These autoantibodies impact BC200 functionality by quasi irreversibly displacing two RNA transport factors from the guanosine-adenosine transport motif. Such anti-BC autoantibodies, which can gain access to brains of neuropsychiatric lupus patients, give rise to clinical manifestations including seizures. To establish causality, naive mice with a permeabilized blood-brain barrier were injected with anti-BC autoantibodies from lupus patients with seizures. Animals so injected developed seizure susceptibility with high mortality. Seizure activity was entirely precluded when animals were injected with lupus anti-BC autoantibodies together with BC200 decoy autoantigen. Seizures are a common clinical manifestation in neuropsychiatric lupus, and our work identifies anti-BC autoantibody activity as a mechanistic cause. The results demonstrate potential utility of BC200 decoys for autoantibody-specific therapeutic interventions in neuropsychiatric lupus.
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- Ilham A Muslimov
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The Robert F Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA,Correspondence: ;
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The Robert F Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Division of Comparative Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The Robert F Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA,Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA,Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA,Correspondence: ;
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Ostroff LE, Cain CK. Persistent up-regulation of polyribosomes at synapses during long-term memory, reconsolidation, and extinction of associative memory. LEARNING & MEMORY (COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y.) 2022; 29:192-202. [PMID: 35882501 PMCID: PMC9374273 DOI: 10.1101/lm.053577.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Local protein synthesis at synapses can provide a rapid supply of proteins to support synaptic changes during consolidation of new memories, but its role in the maintenance or updating of established memories is unknown. Consolidation requires new protein synthesis in the period immediately following learning, whereas established memories are resistant to protein synthesis inhibitors. We have previously reported that polyribosomes are up-regulated in the lateral amygdala (LA) during consolidation of aversive-cued Pavlovian conditioning. In this study, we used serial section electron microscopy reconstructions to determine whether the distribution of dendritic polyribosomes returns to baseline during the long-term memory phase. Relative to control groups, long-term memory was associated with up-regulation of polyribosomes throughout dendrites, including in dendritic spines of all sizes. Retrieval of a consolidated memory by presentation of a small number of cues induces a new, transient requirement for protein synthesis to maintain the memory, while presentation of a large number of cues results in extinction learning, forming a new memory. One hour after retrieval or extinction training, the distribution of dendritic polyribosomes was similar except in the smallest spines, which had more polyribosomes in the extinction group. Our results demonstrate that the effects of learning on dendritic polyribosomes are not restricted to the transient translation-dependent phase of memory formation. Cued Pavlovian conditioning induces persistent synapse strengthening in the LA that is not reversed by retrieval or extinction, and dendritic polyribosomes may therefore correlate generally with synapse strength as opposed to recent activity or transient translational processes.
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- Linnaea E Ostroff
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.,Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.,Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA.,Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Keihani S, Kluever V, Fornasiero EF. Brain Long Noncoding RNAs: Multitask Regulators of Neuronal Differentiation and Function. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26133951. [PMID: 34203457 PMCID: PMC8272081 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26133951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The extraordinary cellular diversity and the complex connections established within different cells types render the nervous system of vertebrates one of the most sophisticated tissues found in living organisms. Such complexity is ensured by numerous regulatory mechanisms that provide tight spatiotemporal control, robustness and reliability. While the unusual abundance of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in nervous tissues was traditionally puzzling, it is becoming clear that these molecules have genuine regulatory functions in the brain and they are essential for neuronal physiology. The canonical view of RNA as predominantly a 'coding molecule' has been largely surpassed, together with the conception that lncRNAs only represent 'waste material' produced by cells as a side effect of pervasive transcription. Here we review a growing body of evidence showing that lncRNAs play key roles in several regulatory mechanisms of neurons and other brain cells. In particular, neuronal lncRNAs are crucial for orchestrating neurogenesis, for tuning neuronal differentiation and for the exact calibration of neuronal excitability. Moreover, their diversity and the association to neurodegenerative diseases render them particularly interesting as putative biomarkers for brain disease. Overall, we foresee that in the future a more systematic scrutiny of lncRNA functions will be instrumental for an exhaustive understanding of neuronal pathophysiology.
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Proteome profile of telencephalon associates attenuated neurogenesis with chronic stress induced mood disorder phenotypes in zebrafish model. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2021; 204:173170. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2021.173170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Revised: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Gindina S, Botsford B, Cowansage K, LeDoux J, Klann E, Hoeffer C, Ostroff L. Upregulation of eIF4E, but not other translation initiation factors, in dendritic spines during memory formation. J Comp Neurol 2021; 529:3112-3126. [PMID: 33864263 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Local translation can provide a rapid, spatially targeted supply of new proteins in distal dendrites to support synaptic changes that underlie learning. Learning and memory are especially sensitive to manipulations of translational control mechanisms, particularly those that target the initiation step, and translation initiation at synapses could be a means of maintaining synapse specificity during plasticity. Initiation predominantly occurs via recruitment of ribosomes to the 5' mRNA cap by complexes of eukaryotic initiation factors (eIFs), and the interaction between eIF4E and eIF4G1 is a particularly important target of translational control pathways. Pharmacological inhibition of eIF4E-eIF4G1 binding impairs formation of memory for aversive Pavlovian conditioning as well as the accompanying increase in polyribosomes in the heads of dendritic spines in the lateral amygdala (LA). This is consistent with a role for initiation at synapses in memory formation, but whether eIFs are even present near synapses is unknown. To determine whether dendritic spines contain eIFs and whether eIF distribution is affected by learning, we combined immunolabeling with serial section transmission electron microscopy (ssTEM) volume reconstructions of LA dendrites after Pavlovian conditioning. Labeling for eIF4E, eIF4G1, and eIF2α-another key target of regulation-occurred in roughly half of dendritic spines, but learning effects were only found for eIF4E, which was upregulated in the heads of dendritic spines. Our results support the possibility of regulated translation initiation as a means of synapse-specific protein targeting during learning and are consistent with the model of eIF4E availability as a central point of control.
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- Sofya Gindina
- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA.,Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
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De D, Mukherjee I, Guha S, Paidi RK, Chakrabarti S, Biswas SC, Bhattacharyya SN. Rheb-mTOR activation rescues Aβ-induced cognitive impairment and memory function by restoring miR-146 activity in glial cells. MOLECULAR THERAPY. NUCLEIC ACIDS 2021; 24:868-887. [PMID: 34094708 PMCID: PMC8141608 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2021.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Deposition of amyloid beta plaques in adult rat or human brain is associated with increased production of proinflammatory cytokines by associated glial cells that are responsible for degeneration of the diseased tissue. The expression of these cytokines is usually under check and is controlled at the post-transcriptional level via several microRNAs. Computational analysis of gene expression profiles of cortical regions of Alzheimer’s disease patients’ brain suggests ineffective target cytokine mRNA suppression by existing micro-ribonucleoproteins (miRNPs) in diseased brain. Exploring the mechanism of amyloid beta-induced cytokine expression, we have identified how the inactivation of the repressive miR-146 miRNPs causes increased production of cytokines in amyloid beta-exposed glial cells. In exploration of the cause of miRNP inactivation, we have noted amyloid beta oligomer-induced sequestration of the mTORC1 complex to early endosomes that results in decreased Ago2 phosphorylation, limited Ago2-miRNA uncoupling, and retarded Ago2-cytokine mRNA interaction in rat astrocytes. Interestingly, constitutive activation of mTORC1 by Rheb activator restricts proinflammatory cytokine production by reactivating miR-146 miRNPs in amyloid beta-exposed glial cells to rescue the disease phenotype in the in vivo rat model of Alzheimer’s disease.
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- Dipayan De
- RNA Biology Research Laboratory, Molecular Genetics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Structural Biology and Bio-informatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Cell Biology and Physiology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Cell Biology and Physiology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Structural Biology and Bio-informatics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Cell Biology and Physiology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- RNA Biology Research Laboratory, Molecular Genetics Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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Kouloulia S, Hallin EI, Simbriger K, Amorim IS, Lach G, Amvrosiadis T, Chalkiadaki K, Kampaite A, Truong VT, Hooshmandi M, Jafarnejad SM, Skehel P, Kursula P, Khoutorsky A, Gkogkas CG. Raptor-Mediated Proteasomal Degradation of Deamidated 4E-BP2 Regulates Postnatal Neuronal Translation and NF-κB Activity. Cell Rep 2020; 29:3620-3635.e7. [PMID: 31825840 PMCID: PMC6915327 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Revised: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The translation initiation repressor 4E-BP2 is deamidated in the brain on asparagines N99/N102 during early postnatal brain development. This post-translational modification enhances 4E-BP2 association with Raptor, a central component of mTORC1 and alters the kinetics of excitatory synaptic transmission. We show that 4E-BP2 deamidation is neuron specific, occurs in the human brain, and changes 4E-BP2 subcellular localization, but not its disordered structure state. We demonstrate that deamidated 4E-BP2 is ubiquitinated more and degrades faster than the unmodified protein. We find that enhanced deamidated 4E-BP2 degradation is dependent on Raptor binding, concomitant with increased association with a Raptor-CUL4B E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. Deamidated 4E-BP2 stability is promoted by inhibiting mTORC1 or glutamate receptors. We further demonstrate that deamidated 4E-BP2 regulates the translation of a distinct pool of mRNAs linked to cerebral development, mitochondria, and NF-κB activity, and thus may be crucial for postnatal brain development in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ASD. Deamidated 4E-BP2 occurs in neurons and is susceptible to ubiquitination/degradation mTORC1 or glutamate receptor inhibition stabilizes deamidated 4E-BP2 A Raptor-CUL4B ubiquitin ligase complex binds to deamidated 4E-BP2 Deamidated 4E-BP2 regulates postnatal brain translation and NF-κB activity
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- Stella Kouloulia
- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen N-5020, Norway
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Department of Anesthesia and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montréal H3A 0G1, QC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montréal H3A 0G1, QC, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 7AE, UK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen N-5020, Norway; Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu FI-90014, Finland
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- Department of Anesthesia and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montréal H3A 0G1, QC, Canada.
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK; Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
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Canclini L, Cal K, Bardier C, Ruiz P, Mercer JA, Calliari A. Calcium triggers the dissociation of myosin-Va from ribosomes in ribonucleoprotein complexes. FEBS Lett 2020; 594:2311-2321. [PMID: 32412091 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The sorting of RNAs to specific regions of the cell for local translation represents an important mechanism directing protein distribution and cell compartmentalization. While significant progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms underlying the transport and localization of mRNAs, the mechanisms governing ribosome mobilization are less well understood. Ribosomes present in the cytoplasm of multiple cell types can form ribonucleoprotein complexes that also contain myosin-Va (Myo5a), a processive, actin-dependent molecular motor. Here, we report that Myo5a can be disassociated from ribosomes when ribonucleoprotein complexes are exposed to calcium, both in vitro and in vivo. We suggest that Myo5a may act as a molecular switch able to anchor or release ribosomes from the actin cytoskeleton in response to intracellular signaling.
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- Lucía Canclini
- Department of Genetics, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas 'Clemente Estable' (MEC), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Biosciences, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Genetics, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas 'Clemente Estable' (MEC), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Biosciences, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Biosciences, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay
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Local translation in neurons: visualization and function. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2019; 26:557-566. [PMID: 31270476 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0263-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Neurons are among the most compartmentalized and interactive of all cell types. Like all cells, neurons use proteins as the main sensors and effectors. The modification of the proteome in axons and dendrites is used to guide the formation of synaptic connections and to store information. In this Review, we discuss the data indicating that an important source of protein for dendrites, axons and their associated elements is provided by the local synthesis of proteins. We review the data indicating the presence of the machinery required for protein synthesis, the direct visualization and demonstration of protein synthesis, and the established functional roles for local translation for many different neuronal functions. Finally, we consider the open questions and future directions in this field.
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Guix FX, Sartório CL, Ill-Raga G. BACE1 Translation: At the Crossroads Between Alzheimer's Disease Neurodegeneration and Memory Consolidation. J Alzheimers Dis Rep 2019; 3:113-148. [PMID: 31259308 PMCID: PMC6597968 DOI: 10.3233/adr-180089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Human life unfolds not only in time and space, but also in the recollection and interweaving of memories. Therefore, individual human identity depends fully on a proper access to the autobiographical memory. Such access is hindered under pathological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, which affects millions of people worldwide. Unfortunately, no effective cure exists to prevent this disorder, the impact of which will rise alarmingly within the next decades. While Alzheimer’s disease is largely considered to be the outcome of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide accumulation in the brain, conceiving this complex disorder strictly as the result of Aβ-neurotoxicity is perhaps a too straight-line simplification. Instead, complementary to this view, the tableau of molecular disarrangements in the Alzheimer’s disease brain may be reflecting, at least in part, a loss of function phenotype in memory processing. Here we take BACE1 translation and degradation as a gateway to study molecular mechanisms putatively involved in the transition between memory and neurodegeneration. BACE1 participates in the excision of Aβ-peptide from its precursor holoprotein, but plays a role in synaptic plasticity too. Its translation is governed by eIF2α phosphorylation: a hub integrating cellular responses to stress, but also a critical switch in memory consolidation. Paralleling these dualities, the eIF2α-kinase HRI has been shown to be a nitric oxide-dependent physiological activator of hippocampal BACE1 translation. Finally, beholding BACE1 as a representative protease active in the CNS, we venture a new perspective on the cellular basis of memory, which may incorporate neurodegeneration in itself as a drift in memory consolidating systems.
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- Francesc X Guix
- Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Division of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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Delaidelli A, Jan A, Herms J, Sorensen PH. Translational control in brain pathologies: biological significance and therapeutic opportunities. Acta Neuropathol 2019; 137:535-555. [PMID: 30739199 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-019-01971-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2018] [Revised: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Messenger RNA (mRNA) translation is the terminal step in protein synthesis, providing a crucial regulatory checkpoint for this process. Translational control allows specific cell types to respond to rapid changes in the microenvironment or to serve specific functions. For example, neurons use mRNA transport to achieve local protein synthesis at significant distances from the nucleus, the site of RNA transcription. Altered expression or functions of the various components of the translational machinery have been linked to several pathologies in the central nervous system. In this review, we provide a brief overview of the basic principles of mRNA translation, and discuss alterations of this process relevant to CNS disease conditions, with a focus on brain tumors and chronic neurological conditions. Finally, synthesizing this knowledge, we discuss the opportunities to exploit the biology of altered mRNA translation for novel therapies in brain disorders, as well as how studying these alterations can shed new light on disease mechanisms.
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- Alberto Delaidelli
- Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department for Translational Brain Research, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany
- Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Munich Cluster of Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Schillerstraße 44, 80336, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
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Okamoto SI, Prikhodko O, Pina-Crespo J, Adame A, McKercher SR, Brill LM, Nakanishi N, Oh CK, Nakamura T, Masliah E, Lipton SA. NitroSynapsin for the treatment of neurological manifestations of tuberous sclerosis complex in a rodent model. Neurobiol Dis 2019; 127:390-397. [PMID: 30928642 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.03.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by heterozygous mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 gene. TSC is often associated with neurological, cognitive, and behavioral deficits. TSC patients also express co-morbidity with anxiety and mood disorders. The mechanism of pathogenesis in TSC is not entirely clear, but TSC-related neurological symptoms are accompanied by excessive glutamatergic activity and altered synaptic spine structures. To address whether extrasynaptic (e)NMDA-type glutamate receptor (NMDAR) antagonists, as opposed to antagonists that block physiological phasic synaptic activity, can ameliorate the synaptic and behavioral features of this disease, we utilized the Tsc2+/- mouse model of TSC to measure biochemical, electrophysiological, histological, and behavioral parameters in the mice. We found that antagonists that preferentially block tonic activity as found at eNMDARs, particularly the newer drug NitroSynapsin, provide biological and statistically significant improvement in Tsc2+/- phenotypes. Accompanying this improvement was correction of activity in the p38 MAPK-TSC-Rheb-mTORC1-S6K1 pathway. Deficits in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), histological loss of synapses, and behavioral fear conditioning in Tsc2+/- mice were all improved after treatment with NitroSynapsin. Taken together, these results suggest that amelioration of excessive excitation, by limiting aberrant eNMDAR activity, may represent a novel treatment approach for TSC.
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- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Scintillon Institute, San Diego, CA 92121, USA; Neuroscience Translational Center, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Scintillon Institute, San Diego, CA 92121, USA; Neuroscience Translational Center, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Scintillon Institute, San Diego, CA 92121, USA; Neuroscience Translational Center, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Scintillon Institute, San Diego, CA 92121, USA; Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Neuroscience Translational Center, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Gal-Ben-Ari S, Barrera I, Ehrlich M, Rosenblum K. PKR: A Kinase to Remember. Front Mol Neurosci 2019; 11:480. [PMID: 30686999 PMCID: PMC6333748 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Aging is a major risk factor for many diseases including metabolic syndrome, cancer, inflammation, and neurodegeneration. Identifying mechanistic common denominators underlying the impact of aging is essential for our fundamental understanding of age-related diseases and the possibility to propose new ways to fight them. One can define aging biochemically as prolonged metabolic stress, the innate cellular and molecular programs responding to it, and the new stable or unstable state of equilibrium between the two. A candidate to play a role in the process is protein kinase R (PKR), first identified as a cellular protector against viral infection and today known as a major regulator of central cellular processes including mRNA translation, transcriptional control, regulation of apoptosis, and cell proliferation. Prolonged imbalance in PKR activation is both affected by biochemical and metabolic parameters and affects them in turn to create a feedforward loop. Here, we portray the central role of PKR in transferring metabolic information and regulating cellular function with a focus on cancer, inflammation, and brain function. Later, we integrate information from open data sources and discuss current knowledge and gaps in the literature about the signaling cascades upstream and downstream of PKR in different cell types and function. Finally, we summarize current major points and biological means to manipulate PKR expression and/or activation and propose PKR as a therapeutic target to shift age/metabolic-dependent undesired steady states.
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- Shunit Gal-Ben-Ari
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Learning and Memory, Sagol Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Learning and Memory, Sagol Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Laboratory of Intracellular Trafficking and Signaling, School of Molecular Cell Biology & Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Learning and Memory, Sagol Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.,Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Muslimov IA, Eom T, Iacoangeli A, Chuang SC, Hukema RK, Willemsen R, Stefanov DG, Wong RKS, Tiedge H. BC RNA Mislocalization in the Fragile X Premutation. eNeuro 2018; 5:ENEURO.0091-18.2018. [PMID: 29766042 PMCID: PMC5952321 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0091-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Fragile X premutation disorder is caused by CGG triplet repeat expansions in the 5' untranslated region of FMR1 mRNA. The question of how expanded CGG repeats cause disease is a subject of continuing debate. Our work indicates that CGG-repeat structures compete with regulatory BC1 RNA for access to RNA transport factor hnRNP A2. As a result, BC1 RNA is mislocalized in vivo, as its synapto-dendritic presence is severely diminished in brains of CGG-repeat knock-in animals (a premutation mouse model). Lack of BC1 RNA is known to cause seizure activity and cognitive dysfunction. Our working hypothesis thus predicted that absence, or significantly reduced presence, of BC1 RNA in synapto-dendritic domains of premutation animal neurons would engender cognate phenotypic alterations. Testing this prediction, we established epileptogenic susceptibility and cognitive impairments as major phenotypic abnormalities of CGG premutation mice. In CA3 hippocampal neurons of such animals, synaptic release of glutamate elicits neuronal hyperexcitability in the form of group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent prolonged epileptiform discharges. CGG-repeat knock-in animals are susceptible to sound-induced seizures and are cognitively impaired as revealed in the Attentional Set Shift Task. These phenotypic disturbances occur in young-adult premutation animals, indicating that a neurodevelopmental deficit is an early-initial manifestation of the disorder. The data are consistent with the notion that RNA mislocalization can contribute to pathogenesis.
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- Ilham A. Muslimov
- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Statistical Design and Analysis, Research Division, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
- Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203
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Gerakis Y, Hetz C. Emerging roles of ER stress in the etiology and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. FEBS J 2017; 285:995-1011. [PMID: 29148236 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Revised: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by synaptic dysfunction and accumulation of abnormal aggregates formed by amyloid-β peptides or phosphorylated tau proteins. Accumulating evidence suggests that alterations in the buffering capacity of the proteostasis network are a salient feature of AD. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the main compartment involved in protein folding and secretion and is drastically affected in AD neurons. ER stress triggers the activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR), a signal transduction pathway that enforces adaptive programs to recover homeostasis or trigger apoptosis of irreversibly damaged cells. Experimental manipulation of specific UPR signaling modules in preclinical models of AD has revealed a key role of this pathway in regulating protein misfolding and neurodegeneration. Recent studies suggest that the UPR also influences synaptic plasticity and memory through ER stress-independent mechanisms. Consequently, targeting of the UPR in AD is emerging as an interesting therapeutic approach to modify the two pillars of AD, protein misfolding and synaptic failure. Here, we review the functional role of ER stress signaling in AD, discussing the complex involvement of the pathway in controlling neuronal survival, the amyloid cascade, neurodegeneration and synaptic function. Recent intervention efforts to target the UPR with pharmacological and gene therapy strategies are also discussed.
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- Yannis Gerakis
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Center for Geroscience, Brain Health and Metabolism, Santiago, Chile.,Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA.,Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Marti AR, Patil S, Mrdalj J, Meerlo P, Skrede S, Pallesen S, Pedersen TT, Bramham CR, Grønli J. No Escaping the Rat Race: Simulated Night Shift Work Alters the Time-of-Day Variation in BMAL1 Translational Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex. Front Neural Circuits 2017; 11:70. [PMID: 29085284 PMCID: PMC5649179 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Millions of people worldwide work during the night, resulting in disturbed circadian rhythms and sleep loss. This may cause deficits in cognitive functions, impaired alertness and increased risk of errors and accidents. Disturbed circadian rhythmicity resulting from night shift work could impair brain function and cognition through disrupted synthesis of proteins involved in synaptic plasticity and neuronal function. Recently, the circadian transcription factor brain-and-muscle arnt-like protein 1 (BMAL1) has been identified as a promoter of mRNA translation initiation, the most highly regulated step in protein synthesis, through binding to the mRNA “cap”. In this study we investigated the effects of simulated shift work on protein synthesis markers. Male rats (n = 40) were exposed to forced activity, either in their rest phase (simulated night shift work) or in their active phase (simulated day shift work) for 3 days. Following the third work shift, experimental animals and time-matched undisturbed controls were euthanized (rest work at ZT12; active work at ZT0). Tissue lysates from two brain regions (prefrontal cortex, PFC and hippocampus) implicated in cognition and sleep loss, were analyzed with m7GTP (cap) pull-down to examine time-of-day variation and effects of simulated shift work on cap-bound protein translation. The results show time-of-day variation of protein synthesis markers in PFC, with increased protein synthesis at ZT12. In the hippocampus there was little difference between ZT0 and ZT12. Active phase work did not induce statistically significant changes in protein synthesis markers at ZT0 compared to time-matched undisturbed controls. Rest work, however, resulted in distinct brain-region specific changes of protein synthesis markers compared to time-matched controls at ZT12. While no changes were observed in the hippocampus, phosphorylation of cap-bound BMAL1 and its regulator S6 kinase beta-1 (S6K1) was significantly reduced in the PFC, together with significant reduction in the synaptic plasticity associated protein activity-regulatedcytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc). Our results indicate considerable time-of-day and brain-region specific variation in cap-dependent translation initiation. We concludethat simulated night shift work in rats disrupts the pathways regulating the circadian component of the translation of mRNA in the PFC, and that this may partly explain impaired waking function during night shift work.
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- Andrea R Marti
- Bergen Stress and Sleep Group, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.,KG Jebsen Centre for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Bergen Stress and Sleep Group, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Dr. Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.,Section of Clinical Pharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Bergen Stress and Sleep Group, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.,KG Jebsen Centre for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Bergen Stress and Sleep Group, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Houyoux N, Wattiez R, Ris L. A proteomic analysis of contextual fear conditioned rats reveals dynamic modifications in neuron and oligodendrocyte protein expression in the dentate gyrus. Eur J Neurosci 2017; 46:2177-2189. [PMID: 28833751 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Contextual memory is an intricate process involving synaptic plasticity and network rearrangement. Both are governed by many molecular processes including phosphorylation and modulation of protein expression. However, little is known about the molecules involved in it. Here, we exploited the advantages of a quantitative proteomic approach to identify a great number of molecules in the rat dentate gyrus after a contextual fear conditioning session. Our results allowed us to highlight protein expression patterns, not only related to neuroplasticity, but also to myelin structure, such as myelin basic protein and myelin proteolipid protein showing a decrease in expression. Validation of the modification in protein expression reveals a dynamic profile during the 48 h following the fear conditioning session. The expression of proteins involved in neurite outgrowth, such as BASP-1 and calcineurin B1, and in synaptic structure and function, VAMP2 and RAB3C, was increased in the dentate gyrus of rats submitted to fear conditioning compared to controls. We showed that the increase in BASP-1 protein was specific to fear conditioning learning as it was not present in immediate-shock rats, neither in rats exposed to a novel environment without being shocked. As myelin is known to stabilise synaptic network, the decrease in myelin proteins suggests a neuroglia interactive process taking place in the dentate gyrus in the 24 h following contextual fear learning, which has never been demonstrated before. These results therefore open the way to the study of new plasticity mechanisms underlying learning and memory.
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- Nicolas Houyoux
- Proteomics and Microbiology Department, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
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- Proteomics and Microbiology Department, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
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- Department of Neuroscience, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, 20 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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eIF4B phosphorylation at Ser504 links synaptic activity with protein translation in physiology and pathology. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10563. [PMID: 28874824 PMCID: PMC5585320 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11096-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Neuronal physiology requires activity-driven protein translation, a process in which translation initiation factors are key players. We focus on eukaryotic initiation factor 4B (eIF4B), a regulator of protein translation, whose function in neurons is undetermined. We show that neuronal activity affects eIF4B phosphorylation and identify Ser504 as a phosphorylation site regulated by casein kinases and sensitive to the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors. Ser504 phosphorylation increases eIF4B recruitment to the pre-initiation complex and influences eIF4B localization at synapses. Moreover, Ser504 phosphorylation modulates the translation of protein kinase Mζ. Therefore, by sensing synaptic activity, eIF4B could adjust translation to neuronal needs, promoting adaptive changes in synaptic plasticity. We also show that Ser504 phosphorylation is increased in vivo in a rat model of epilepsy during epileptogenesis i.e. when translation drives maladaptive synaptic changes. We propose eIF4B as a mediator between neuronal activity and translation, with relevance in the control of synaptic plasticity.
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Potheraveedu VN, Schöpel M, Stoll R, Heumann R. Rheb in neuronal degeneration, regeneration, and connectivity. Biol Chem 2017; 398:589-606. [PMID: 28212107 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2016-0312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The small GTPase Rheb was originally detected as an immediate early response protein whose expression was induced by NMDA-dependent synaptic activity in the brain. Rheb's activity is highly regulated by its GTPase activating protein (GAP), the tuberous sclerosis complex protein, which stimulates the conversion from the active, GTP-loaded into the inactive, GDP-loaded conformation. Rheb has been established as an evolutionarily conserved molecular switch protein regulating cellular growth, cell volume, cell cycle, autophagy, and amino acid uptake. The subcellular localization of Rheb and its interacting proteins critically regulate its activity and function. In stem cells, constitutive activation of Rheb enhances differentiation at the expense of self-renewal partially explaining the adverse effects of deregulated Rheb in the mammalian brain. In the context of various cellular stress conditions such as oxidative stress, ER-stress, death factor signaling, and cellular aging, Rheb activation surprisingly enhances rather than prevents cellular degeneration. This review addresses cell type- and cell state-specific function(s) of Rheb and mainly focuses on neurons and their surrounding glial cells. Mechanisms will be discussed in the context of therapy that interferes with Rheb's activity using the antibiotic rapamycin or low molecular weight compounds.
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- Veena Nambiar Potheraveedu
- Molecular Neurobiochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr University of Bochum, Universitätstr. 150, D-44780 Bochum
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- Biomolecular NMR, Ruhr University of Bochum, D-44780 Bochum
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- Biomolecular NMR, Ruhr University of Bochum, D-44780 Bochum
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- Molecular Neurobiochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr University of Bochum, Universitätstr. 150, D-44780 Bochum
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Iacoangeli A, Dosunmu A, Eom T, Stefanov DG, Tiedge H. Regulatory BC1 RNA in cognitive control. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 24:267-277. [PMID: 28620074 PMCID: PMC5473108 DOI: 10.1101/lm.045427.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Dendritic regulatory BC1 RNA is a non-protein-coding (npc) RNA that operates in the translational control of gene expression. The absence of BC1 RNA in BC1 knockout (KO) animals causes translational dysregulation that entails neuronal phenotypic alterations including prolonged epileptiform discharges, audiogenic seizure activity in vivo, and excessive cortical oscillations in the γ frequency band. Here we asked whether BC1 RNA control is also required for higher brain functions such as learning, memory, or cognition. To address this question, we used odor/object attentional set shifting tasks in which prefrontal cortical performance was assessed in a series of discrimination and conflict learning sessions. Results obtained in these behavioral trials indicate that BC1 KO animals were significantly impaired in their cognitive flexibility. When faced with conflicting information sources, BC1 KO animals committed regressive errors as they were compromised in their ability to disengage from recently acquired memories even though recall of such memories was in conflict with new situational context. The observed cognitive deficits are reminiscent of those previously described in subtypes of human autism spectrum disorders.
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- Anna Iacoangeli
- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA.,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA.,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA.,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
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- Statistical Design and Analysis, Research Division, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
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- The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA .,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA.,Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
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Heise C, Taha E, Murru L, Ponzoni L, Cattaneo A, Guarnieri FC, Montani C, Mossa A, Vezzoli E, Ippolito G, Zapata J, Barrera I, Ryazanov AG, Cook J, Poe M, Stephen MR, Kopanitsa M, Benfante R, Rusconi F, Braida D, Francolini M, Proud CG, Valtorta F, Passafaro M, Sala M, Bachi A, Verpelli C, Rosenblum K, Sala C. eEF2K/eEF2 Pathway Controls the Excitation/Inhibition Balance and Susceptibility to Epileptic Seizures. Cereb Cortex 2017; 27:2226-2248. [PMID: 27005990 PMCID: PMC5963824 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Alterations in the balance of inhibitory and excitatory synaptic transmission have been implicated in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders such as epilepsy. Eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) is a highly regulated, ubiquitous kinase involved in the control of protein translation. Here, we show that eEF2K activity negatively regulates GABAergic synaptic transmission. Indeed, loss of eEF2K increases GABAergic synaptic transmission by upregulating the presynaptic protein Synapsin 2b and α5-containing GABAA receptors and thus interferes with the excitation/inhibition balance. This cellular phenotype is accompanied by an increased resistance to epilepsy and an impairment of only a specific hippocampal-dependent fear conditioning. From a clinical perspective, our results identify eEF2K as a potential novel target for antiepileptic drugs, since pharmacological and genetic inhibition of eEF2K can revert the epileptic phenotype in a mouse model of human epilepsy.
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- Sagol Department of Neurobiology and
- Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, Natural Science Faculty, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Sagol Department of Neurobiology and
- Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, Natural Science Faculty, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- The Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Synome, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
- Charles River Discovery Research Services, 70210 Kuopio, Finland
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- University of Southampton, Centre for Biological Sciences, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM-FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Sagol Department of Neurobiology and
- Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, Natural Science Faculty, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- CNR Neuroscience Institute, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Rizzo V, Touzani K, Raveendra BL, Swarnkar S, Lora J, Kadakkuzha BM, Liu XA, Zhang C, Betel D, Stackman RW, Puthanveettil SV. Encoding of contextual fear memory requires de novo proteins in the prelimbic cortex. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2017; 2:158-169. [PMID: 28503670 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2016.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite our understanding of the significance of the prefrontal cortex in the consolidation of long-term memories (LTM), its role in the encoding of LTM remains elusive. Here we investigated the role of new protein synthesis in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in encoding contextual fear memory. METHODS Because a change in the association of mRNAs to polyribosomes is an indicator of new protein synthesis, we assessed the changes in polyribosome-associated mRNAs in the mPFC following contextual fear conditioning (CFC) in the mouse. Differential gene expression in mPFC was identified by polyribosome profiling (n = 18). The role of new protein synthesis in mPFC was determined by focal inhibition of protein synthesis (n = 131) and by intra-prelimbic cortex manipulation (n = 56) of Homer 3, a candidate identified from polyribosome profiling. RESULTS We identified several mRNAs that are differentially and temporally recruited to polyribosomes in the mPFC following CFC. Inhibition of protein synthesis in the prelimbic (PL), but not in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) region of the mPFC immediately after CFC disrupted encoding of contextual fear memory. Intriguingly, inhibition of new protein synthesis in the PL 6 hours after CFC did not impair encoding. Furthermore, expression of Homer 3, an mRNA enriched in polyribosomes following CFC, in the PL constrained encoding of contextual fear memory. CONCLUSIONS Our studies identify several molecular substrates of new protein synthesis in the mPFC and establish that encoding of contextual fear memories require new protein synthesis in PL subregion of mPFC.
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- Valerio Rizzo
- Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, FL 33458
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- Department of Medicine and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. NY10065. USA
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- Department of Medicine and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. NY10065. USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL 33458
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Lyons LC, Gardner JS, Gandour CE, Krishnan HC. Role of proteasome-dependent protein degradation in long-term operant memory in Aplysia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 24:59-64. [PMID: 27980077 PMCID: PMC5159658 DOI: 10.1101/lm.043794.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We investigated the in vivo role of protein degradation during intermediate (ITM) and long-term memory (LTM) in Aplysia using an operant learning paradigm. The proteasome inhibitor MG-132 inhibited the induction and molecular consolidation of LTM with no effect on ITM. Remarkably, maintenance of steady-state protein levels through inhibition of protein synthesis using either anisomycin or rapamycin in conjunction with proteasome inhibition permitted the formation of robust 24 h LTM. Our studies suggest a primary role for proteasomal activity in facilitation of gene transcription for LTM and raise the possibility that synaptic mechanisms are sufficient to sustain 24 h memory.
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- Lisa C Lyons
- Department of Biological Science, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4295, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4295, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4295, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4295, USA
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Schieweck R, Popper B, Kiebler MA. Co-Translational Folding: A Novel Modulator of Local Protein Expression in Mammalian Neurons? Trends Genet 2016; 32:788-800. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Revised: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Freeman OJ, Mallucci GR. The UPR and synaptic dysfunction in neurodegeneration. Brain Res 2016; 1648:530-537. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.03.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Revised: 03/20/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Design and synthesis of novel protein kinase R (PKR) inhibitors. Mol Divers 2016; 20:805-819. [PMID: 27480630 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-016-9689-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Protein kinase RNA-activated (PKR) plays an important role in a broad range of intracellular regulatory mechanisms and in the pathophysiology of many human diseases, including microbial and viral infections, cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders. Recently, several potent PKR inhibitors have been synthesized. However, the enzyme's multifunctional character and a multitude of PKR downstream targets have prevented the successful transformation of such inhibitors into effective drugs. Thus, the need for additional PKR inhibitors remains. With the help of computer-aided drug-discovery tools, we designed and synthesized potential PKR inhibitors. Indeed, two compounds were found to inhibit recombinant PKR in pharmacologically relevant concentrations. One compound, 6-amino-3-methyl-2-oxo-N-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[d]imidazole-1-carboxamide, also showed anti-apoptotic properties. The novel molecules diversify the existing pool of PKR inhibitors and provide a basis for the future development of compounds based on PKR signal transduction mechanism.
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McGlory C, Phillips SM. Exercise and the Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2015; 135:153-73. [PMID: 26477914 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2015.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Skeletal muscle is a critical organ serving as the primary site for postprandial glucose disposal and the generation of contractile force. The size of human skeletal muscle mass is dependent upon the temporal relationship between changes in muscle protein synthesis (MPS) and muscle protein breakdown. The aim of this chapter is to review our current understanding of how resistance exercise influences protein turnover with a specific emphasis on the molecular factors regulating MPS. We also will discuss recent data relating to the prescription of resistance exercise to maximize skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Finally, we evaluate the impact of age and periods of disuse on the loss of muscle mass and the controversy surround the etiology of muscle disuse atrophy.
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- Chris McGlory
- Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Rozas NS, Redell JB, Pita-Almenar JD, Mckenna J, Moore AN, Gambello MJ, Dash PK. Intrahippocampal glutamine administration inhibits mTORC1 signaling and impairs long-term memory. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 22:239-46. [PMID: 25878136 PMCID: PMC4408772 DOI: 10.1101/lm.038265.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1), a key regulator of protein synthesis and cellular growth, is also required for long-term memory formation. Stimulation of mTORC1 signaling is known to be dependent on the availability of energy and growth factors, as well as the presence of amino acids. In vitro studies using serum- and amino acid-starved cells have reported that glutamine addition can either stimulate or repress mTORC1 activity, depending on the particular experimental system that was used. However, these experiments do not directly address the effect of glutamine on mTORC1 activity under physiological conditions in nondeprived cells in vivo. We present experimental results indicating that intrahippocampal administration of glutamine to rats reduces mTORC1 activity. Moreover, post-training administration of glutamine impairs long-term spatial memory formation, while coadministration of glutamine with leucine had no influence on memory. Intracellular recordings in hippocampal slices showed that glutamine did not alter either excitatory or inhibitory synaptic activity, suggesting that the observed memory impairments may not result from conversion of glutamine to either glutamate or GABA. Taken together, these findings indicate that glutamine can decrease mTORC1 activity in the brain and may have implications for treatments of neurological diseases associated with high mTORC1 signaling.
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- Natalia S Rozas
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
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Nandagopal N, Roux PP. Regulation of global and specific mRNA translation by the mTOR signaling pathway. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 3:e983402. [PMID: 26779414 DOI: 10.4161/21690731.2014.983402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2014] [Revised: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The translation of mRNA into polypeptides is a key step in eukaryotic gene expression. Translation is mostly controlled at the level of initiation, which is partly regulated by the mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway. Whereas mTOR controls global protein synthesis through specific effector proteins, its role in the translation of select groups of mRNAs, such as those harboring a terminal oligopyrimidine (TOP) tract at their 5' end, remains more enigmatic. In this article, we describe the current knowledge on the role of mTOR in global mRNA translation, but also focus on the potential molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of specific translational programs.
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- Neethi Nandagopal
- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC); Université de Montréal ; Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC); Université de Montréal; Montréal, Québec, Canada; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology; Faculty of Medicine; Université de Montréal; Montréal, Québec, Canada
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La Montanara P, Rusconi L, Locarno A, Forti L, Barbiero I, Tramarin M, Chandola C, Kilstrup-Nielsen C, Landsberger N. Synaptic synthesis, dephosphorylation, and degradation: a novel paradigm for an activity-dependent neuronal control of CDKL5. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:4512-27. [PMID: 25555910 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.589762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Mutations in the X-linked CDKL5 (cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5) gene have been associated with several forms of neurodevelopmental disorders, including atypical Rett syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, and early infantile epileptic encephalopathy. Accordingly, loss of CDKL5 in mice results in autistic-like features and impaired neuronal communication. Although the biological functions of CDKL5 remain largely unknown, recent pieces of evidence suggest that CDKL5 is involved in neuronal plasticity. Herein, we show that, at all stages of development, neuronal depolarization induces a rapid increase in CDKL5 levels, mostly mediated by extrasomatic synthesis. In young neurons, this induction is prolonged, whereas in more mature neurons, NMDA receptor stimulation induces a protein phosphatase 1-dependent dephosphorylation of CDKL5 that is mandatory for its proteasome-dependent degradation. As a corollary, neuronal activity leads to a prolonged induction of CDKL5 levels in immature neurons but to a short lasting increase of the kinase in mature neurons. Recent results demonstrate that many genes associated with autism spectrum disorders are crucial components of the activity-dependent signaling networks regulating the composition, shape, and strength of the synapse. Thus, we speculate that CDKL5 deficiency disrupts activity-dependent signaling and the consequent synapse development, maturation, and refinement.
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- Paolo La Montanara
- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and
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- From the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Section of Biomedical Research; University of Insubria, 21052 Busto Arsizio, Italy and the San Raffaele Rett Research Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy
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Ounallah-Saad H, Sharma V, Edry E, Rosenblum K. Genetic or pharmacological reduction of PERK enhances cortical-dependent taste learning. J Neurosci 2014; 34:14624-32. [PMID: 25355215 PMCID: PMC6608429 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2117-14.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2014] [Revised: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 09/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Protein translation initiation is controlled by levels of eIF2α phosphorylation (p-eIF2α) on Ser51. In addition, increased p-eIF2α levels impair long-term synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation, whereas decreased levels enhance them. Levels of p-eIF2α are determined by four kinases, of which protein kinase RNA-activated (PKR), PKR-like endoplastic reticulum kinase (PERK), and general control nonderepressible 2 are extensively expressed in the mammalian mature brain. Following identification of PERK as the major kinase to determine basal levels of p-eIF2α in primary neuronal cultures, we tested its function as a physiological constraint of memory consolidation in the cortex, the brain structure suggested to store, at least in part, long-term memories in the mammalian brain. To that aim, insular cortex (IC)-dependent positive and negative forms of taste learning were used. Genetic reduction of PERK expression was accomplished by local microinfusion of a lentivirus harboring PERK Short hairpin RNA, and pharmacological inhibition was achieved by local microinfusion of a PERK-specific inhibitor (GSK2606414) to the rat IC. Both genetic reduction of PERK expression and pharmacological inhibition of its activity reduced p-eIF2α levels and enhanced novel taste learning and conditioned taste aversion, but not memory retrieval. Moreover, enhanced extinction was observed together with enhanced associative memory, suggesting increased cortical-dependent behavioral plasticity. The results suggest that, by phosphorylating eIF2α, PERK functions in the cortex as a physiological constraint of memory consolidation, and its downregulation serves as cognitive enhancement.
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- Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Sagol Department of Neurobiology, Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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Eom T, Muslimov IA, Tsokas P, Berardi V, Zhong J, Sacktor TC, Tiedge H. Neuronal BC RNAs cooperate with eIF4B to mediate activity-dependent translational control. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 207:237-52. [PMID: 25332164 PMCID: PMC4210447 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201401005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Regulatory brain cytoplasmic RNAs cooperate with eukaryotic initiation factor 4B to couple translation to receptor activation in support of long-term plastic changes in neurons. In neurons, translational regulation of gene expression has been implicated in the activity-dependent management of synapto-dendritic protein repertoires. However, the fundamentals of stimulus-modulated translational control in neurons remain poorly understood. Here we describe a mechanism in which regulatory brain cytoplasmic (BC) RNAs cooperate with eukaryotic initiation factor 4B (eIF4B) to control translation in a manner that is responsive to neuronal activity. eIF4B is required for the translation of mRNAs with structured 5′ untranslated regions (UTRs), exemplified here by neuronal protein kinase Mζ (PKMζ) mRNA. Upon neuronal stimulation, synapto-dendritic eIF4B is dephosphorylated at serine 406 in a rapid process that is mediated by protein phosphatase 2A. Such dephosphorylation causes a significant decrease in the binding affinity between eIF4B and BC RNA translational repressors, enabling the factor to engage the 40S small ribosomal subunit for translation initiation. BC RNA translational control, mediated via eIF4B phosphorylation status, couples neuronal activity to translational output, and thus provides a mechanistic basis for long-term plastic changes in nerve cells.
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- Taesun Eom
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Neurology, The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203
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eIF2α dephosphorylation in basolateral amygdala mediates reconsolidation of drug memory. J Neurosci 2014; 34:10010-21. [PMID: 25057203 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0934-14.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Maladaptive memories elicited by exposure to environmental stimuli associated with drugs of abuse are often responsible for relapse among addicts. Interference with the reconsolidation of drug memory can inhibit drug seeking. Previous studies have indicated that the dephosphorylation of the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 α-subunit (eIF2α) plays an important role in synaptic plasticity and long-term memory consolidation, but its role in the reconsolidation of drug memory remains unknown. The amygdala is required for the reconsolidation of a destabilized drug memory after retrieval of drug-paired stimuli. Here, we used conditioned place preference (CPP) and self-administration procedures to determine whether amygdala eIF2α dephosphorylation is required for the reconsolidation of morphine and cocaine memories in rats. We found that the levels of eIF2α phosphorylation (Ser51) and activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) were decreased after reexposure to a previously morphine- or cocaine-paired context (i.e., a memory retrieval procedure) in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) but not in the central amygdala. Intra-BLA infusions of Sal003, a selective inhibitor of eIF2α dephosphorylation, immediately after memory retrieval disrupted the reconsolidation of morphine- or cocaine-induced CPP, leading to a long-lasting suppression of drug-paired stimulus-induced craving. Advanced knockdown of ATF4 expression in the BLA by lentivirus-mediated short-hairpin RNA blocked the disruption of the reconsolidation of morphine-induced CPP induced by Sal003 treatment. Furthermore, inhibition of eIF2α dephosphorylation in the BLA immediately after light/tone stimulus retrieval decreased subsequent cue-induced heroin-seeking behavior in the self-administration procedure. These results demonstrate that eIF2α dephosphorylation in the BLA mediates the memory reconsolidation of drug-paired stimuli.
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Bergeron Y, Chagniel L, Bureau G, Massicotte G, Cyr M. mTOR signaling contributes to motor skill learning in mice. Front Mol Neurosci 2014; 7:26. [PMID: 24772063 PMCID: PMC3982074 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2014.00026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2014] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase is a critical regulator of mRNA translation and is suspected to be involved in various long-lasting forms of synaptic and behavioral plasticity. However, its role in motor learning and control has never been examined. This study investigated, in mice, the implication of mTOR in the learning processes associated with the accelerating rotarod task. We first observed that the rotarod learning did not alter the levels of total mTOR in the striatum, hippocampus, cerebellum, and anterior cortex of trained mice. However, it increased the levels of phosphorylated mTOR in the striatum and hippocampus exclusively during the first session of training; no change was observed at the second and third sessions. In order to further investigate the potential role of mTOR during motor skill learning, we performed systemic and intrastriatal inhibitions of mTOR using the pharmacological inhibitor rapamycin, as well as a genetic knockdown of striatal mTOR using intrastriatal infusion of mTOR siRNA. These three independent approaches were all associated with a significant reduction in rotarod performances that were reminiscent of impaired consolidation processes. Notably, these treatments did not affect the capacity of mice to execute the pole test, suggesting that mTOR activity was mainly controlling motor learning rather than motor abilities. Moreover, all treatments decreased the levels of phosphorylated 4EBP1 and P70S6K, two molecular downstream targets of mTORC1. Our findings demonstrate that striatal mTOR kinase, via the phosphorylation of 4EBP1 and P70S6K, plays an important role in the cellular and molecular processes involved in motor skill learning.
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- Yan Bergeron
- Groupe de Recherche en Neurosciences, Département de Biologie Médicale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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- Groupe de Recherche en Neurosciences, Département de Biologie Médicale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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- Groupe de Recherche en Neurosciences, Département de Biologie Médicale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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- Groupe de Recherche en Neurosciences, Département de Biologie Médicale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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- Groupe de Recherche en Neurosciences, Département de Biologie Médicale, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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Santini E, Huynh TN, Klann E. Mechanisms of translation control underlying long-lasting synaptic plasticity and the consolidation of long-term memory. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2014; 122:131-67. [PMID: 24484700 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-420170-5.00005-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The complexity of memory formation and its persistence is a phenomenon that has been studied intensely for centuries. Memory exists in many forms and is stored in various brain regions. Generally speaking, memories are reorganized into broadly distributed cortical networks over time through systems level consolidation. At the cellular level, storage of information is believed to initially occur via altered synaptic strength by processes such as long-term potentiation. New protein synthesis is required for long-lasting synaptic plasticity as well as for the formation of long-term memory. The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a critical regulator of cap-dependent protein synthesis and is required for numerous forms of long-lasting synaptic plasticity and long-term memory. As such, the study of mTORC1 and protein factors that control translation initiation and elongation has enhanced our understanding of how the process of protein synthesis is regulated during memory formation. Herein we discuss the molecular mechanisms that regulate protein synthesis as well as pharmacological and genetic manipulations that demonstrate the requirement for proper translational control in long-lasting synaptic plasticity and long-term memory formation.
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, USA
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Lourenco MV, Clarke JR, Frozza RL, Bomfim TR, Forny-Germano L, Batista AF, Sathler LB, Brito-Moreira J, Amaral OB, Silva CA, Freitas-Correa L, Espírito-Santo S, Campello-Costa P, Houzel JC, Klein WL, Holscher C, Carvalheira JB, Silva AM, Velloso LA, Munoz DP, Ferreira ST, De Felice FG. TNF-α mediates PKR-dependent memory impairment and brain IRS-1 inhibition induced by Alzheimer's β-amyloid oligomers in mice and monkeys. Cell Metab 2013; 18:831-43. [PMID: 24315369 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2013.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2012] [Revised: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 10/18/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes appear to share similar pathogenic mechanisms. dsRNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) underlies peripheral insulin resistance in metabolic disorders. PKR phosphorylates eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α-P), and AD brains exhibit elevated phospho-PKR and eIF2α-P levels. Whether and how PKR and eIF2α-P participate in defective brain insulin signaling and cognitive impairment in AD are unknown. We report that β-amyloid oligomers, AD-associated toxins, activate PKR in a tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α)-dependent manner, resulting in eIF2α-P, neuronal insulin receptor substrate (IRS-1) inhibition, synapse loss, and memory impairment. Brain phospho-PKR and eIF2α-P were elevated in AD animal models, including monkeys given intracerebroventricular oligomer infusions. Oligomers failed to trigger eIF2α-P and cognitive impairment in PKR(-/-) and TNFR1(-/-) mice. Bolstering insulin signaling rescued phospho-PKR and eIF2α-P. Results reveal pathogenic mechanisms shared by AD and diabetes and establish that proinflammatory signaling mediates oligomer-induced IRS-1 inhibition and PKR-dependent synapse and memory loss.
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- Mychael V Lourenco
- Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-902, Brazil
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Buchan JR, Kolaitis RM, Taylor JP, Parker R. Eukaryotic stress granules are cleared by autophagy and Cdc48/VCP function. Cell 2013; 153:1461-74. [PMID: 23791177 PMCID: PMC3760148 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 557] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2012] [Revised: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 05/20/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Stress granules and P bodies are conserved cytoplasmic aggregates of nontranslating messenger ribonucleoprotein complexes (mRNPs) implicated in the regulation of mRNA translation and decay and are related to RNP granules in embryos, neurons, and pathological inclusions in some degenerative diseases. Using baker's yeast, 125 genes were identified in a genetic screen that affected the dynamics of P bodies and/or stress granules. Analyses of such mutants, including CDC48 alleles, provide evidence that stress granules can be targeted to the vacuole by autophagy, in a process termed granulophagy. Moreover, stress granule clearance in mammalian cells is reduced by inhibition of autophagy or by depletion or pathogenic mutations in valosin-containing protein (VCP), the human ortholog of CDC48. Because mutations in VCP predispose humans to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, inclusion body myopathy, and multisystem proteinopathy, this work suggests that autophagic clearance of stress granule related and pathogenic RNP granules that arise in degenerative diseases may be important in reducing their pathology.
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- J Ross Buchan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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Blocking the eIF2α kinase (PKR) enhances positive and negative forms of cortex-dependent taste memory. J Neurosci 2013; 33:2517-25. [PMID: 23392680 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2322-12.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Age-associated memory deterioration (and the decline in ability to acquire new information) is one of the major diseases of our era. Cognitive enhancement can be achieved by using psycho-stimulants, such as caffeine or nicotine, but very little is known about drugs that can enhance the consolidation phase of memories in the cortex, the brain structure considered to store, at least partially, long-term memories. We used cortex-dependent taste-learning paradigms to test the hypothesis that pharmacological manipulation of the translation initiation eIF2α, which plays a role in hippocampus-dependent memory, can enhance positive or negative forms of taste memories. We found that dephosphorylation (Ser51) of eIF2α, specifically in the cortex, is both correlated with and necessary for normal memory consolidation. To reduce eIF2α phosphorylation and improve memory consolidation, we pharmacologically inhibited one of the eIF2α kinases, PKR, which is known to be involved in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease. Systemic or local microinjection of PKR inhibitor to the gustatory cortex enhanced both positive and negative forms of taste memory in rats and mice. Our results provide clear evidence that PKR plays a major role in cortex-dependent memory consolidation and, therefore, that pharmacological inhibition of PKR is a potential target for drugs to enhance cognition.
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Melemedjian OK, Tillu DV, Asiedu MN, Mandell EK, Moy JK, Blute VM, Taylor CJ, Ghosh S, Price TJ. BDNF regulates atypical PKC at spinal synapses to initiate and maintain a centralized chronic pain state. Mol Pain 2013; 9:12. [PMID: 23510079 PMCID: PMC3608966 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-9-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2013] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Chronic pain is an important medical problem affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Mechanisms underlying the maintenance of chronic pain states are poorly understood but the elucidation of such mechanisms have the potential to reveal novel therapeutics capable of reversing a chronic pain state. We have recently shown that the maintenance of a chronic pain state is dependent on an atypical PKC, PKMζ, but the mechanisms involved in controlling PKMζ in chronic pain are completely unknown. Here we have tested the hypothesis that brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) regulates PKMζ, and possibly other aPKCs, to maintain a centralized chronic pain state. Results We first demonstrate that although other kinases play a role in the initiation of persistent nociceptive sensitization, they are not involved in the maintenance of this chronic pain state indicating that a ZIP-reversible process is responsible for the maintenance of persistent sensitization. We further show that BDNF plays a critical role in initiating and maintaining persistent nociceptive sensitization and that this occurs via a ZIP-reversible process. Moreover, at spinal synapses, BDNF controls PKMζ and PKCλ nascent synthesis via mTORC1 and BDNF enhances PKMζ phosphorylaton. Finally, we show that BDNF signaling to PKMζ and PKCλ is conserved across CNS synapses demonstrating molecular links between pain and memory mechanisms. Conclusions Hence, BDNF is a key regulator of aPKC synthesis and phosphorylation and an essential mediator of the maintenance of a centralized chronic pain state. These findings point to BDNF regulation of aPKC as a potential therapeutic target for the permanent reversal of a chronic pain state.
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- Ohannes K Melemedjian
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA
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ILL-Raga G, Köhler C, Radiske A, Lima RH, Rosen MD, Muñoz FJ, Cammarota M. Consolidation of object recognition memory requires HRI kinase-dependent phosphorylation of eIF2α in the hippocampus. Hippocampus 2013; 23:431-6. [DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Mutations that alter signaling through the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), a well established regulator of neuronal protein synthesis, have been linked to autism and cognitive dysfunction. Although previous studies have established a role for mTORC1 as necessary for enduring changes in postsynaptic function, here we demonstrate that dendritic mTORC1 activation in rat hippocampal neurons also drives a retrograde signaling mechanism promoting enhanced neurotransmitter release from apposed presynaptic terminals. This novel mode of synaptic regulation conferred by dendritic mTORC1 is locally implemented, requires downstream synthesis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a retrograde messenger, and is engaged in an activity-dependent fashion to support homeostatic trans-synaptic control of presynaptic function. Our findings thus reveal that mTORC1-dependent translation in dendrites subserves a unique mode of synaptic regulation, highlighting an alternative regulatory pathway that could contribute to the social and cognitive dysfunction that accompanies dysregulated mTORC1 signaling.
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Castello A, Fischer B, Hentze MW, Preiss T. RNA-binding proteins in Mendelian disease. Trends Genet 2013; 29:318-27. [PMID: 23415593 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Revised: 12/18/2012] [Accepted: 01/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) control all aspects of RNA fate, and defects in their function underlie a broad spectrum of human pathologies. We focus here on two recent studies that uncovered the in vivo mRNA interactomes of human cells, jointly implicating over 1100 proteins in RNA binding. Surprisingly, over 350 of these RBPs had no prior RNA binding-related annotation or domain homology. The datasets also contain many proteins that, when mutated, cause Mendelian diseases, prominently neurological, sensory, and muscular disorders and cancers. Disease mutations in these proteins occur throughout their domain architectures and many are found in non-classical RNA-binding domains and in disordered regions. In some cases, mutations might cause disease through perturbing previously unknown RNA-related protein functions. These studies have thus expanded our knowledge of RBPs and their role in genetic diseases. We also expect that mRNA interactome capture approaches will aid further exploration of RNA systems biology in varied physiological and pathophysiological settings.
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- Alfredo Castello
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Lee J, Park S, Lee JY, Yeo YK, Kim JS, Lim J. Improved spatial learning and memory by perilla diet is correlated with immunoreactivities to neurofilament and α-synuclein in hilus of dentate gyrus. Proteome Sci 2012; 10:72. [PMID: 23216756 PMCID: PMC3539918 DOI: 10.1186/1477-5956-10-72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Accepted: 11/29/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Perilla (Perilla frutescens) oil is very rich in α-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid. As it is widely reported that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation improves cognitive function in children and adults, feeding rats with perilla diets followed by analysis of proteomic changes in the hippocampus can provide valuable information on the mechanism of learning and memory at the molecular level. To identify proteins playing roles in learning and memory, differentially expressed proteins in the hippocampus of the 5 week old rats fed perilla diets for 3 weeks or 3 months were identified by proteomic analysis and validated by immunological assays. RESULTS The perilla diet groups showed improved spatial learning and memory performances in a T-maze test. They also displayed elevated level of 22:6n-3 fatty acid, an omega-3 fatty acid (p<0.05), in the brain compared to the control diet group. Quantitative proteomic analysis using 2-D gels as well as functional annotation grouping with the differentially expressed proteins in the hippocampus showed that those proteins involved in cytoskeleton and transport were the major differentially expressed proteins in the 3-week group, whereas those involved in energy metabolism, neuron projection and apoptosis in addition to cytoskeleton and transport were the major ones in the 3 month group. Differential protein expression in the hippocampus was validated by Western blotting using four selected proteins, known to be involved in synaptic plasticity; AMPA receptor, neurofilament, α-synuclein, and β-soluble NSF attachment protein. Brain sections from the perilla-diet groups showed enhanced immunoreactivities to α-synuclein and neurofilament. Especially, neurofilament immunoreactive cells manifested longer neurite projections in the hilus of dentate gyrus of the perilla-diet groups. CONCLUSION Improved cognitive function upon administration of n-3 fatty acid-rich perilla diet is associated with the differential expression of hippocampal proteins related to cytoskeleton, energy metabolism, transport, neuro-projection, and apoptosis. Particularly, the enhanced immunoreactivities to α-synuclein and neurofilament in the hilus of dentate gyrus suggest that perilla diet supplementation promotes neuronal signaling and alters synaptic plasticity for improved learning and memory.
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- Jinwoo Lee
- Major in Food Biomaterials, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
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- Major in Food Biomaterials, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
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- Major in Food Biomaterials, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
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- Major in Food Biomaterials, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
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- Major in Food Biomaterials, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
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- Major in Food Biomaterials, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea
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Tolino M, Köhrmann M, Kiebler MA. RNA-binding proteins involved in RNA localization and their implications in neuronal diseases. Eur J Neurosci 2012; 35:1818-36. [PMID: 22708593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08160.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Very often, developmental abnormalities or subtle disturbances of neuronal function may yield brain diseases even if they become obvious only late in life. It is therefore our intention to highlight fundamental mechanisms of neuronal cell biology with a special emphasis on dendritic mRNA localization including local protein synthesis at the activated synapse. Furthermore, we would like to point out possible links to neuronal or synaptic dysfunction. In particular, we will focus on a series of well-known RNA-binding proteins that are involved in these processes and outline how their dysfunction might yield neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative or neuropsychiatric disorders. We are convinced that increasing our understanding of RNA biology in general and the mechanisms underlying mRNA transport and subsequent translation at the synapse will ultimately generate important novel RNA-based tools in the near future that will allow us to hopefully treat some of these devastating diseases.
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- Marco Tolino
- Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Borck G, Shin BS, Stiller B, Mimouni-Bloch A, Thiele H, Kim JR, Thakur M, Skinner C, Aschenbach L, Smirin-Yosef P, Har-Zahav A, Nürnberg G, Altmüller J, Frommolt P, Hofmann K, Konen O, Nürnberg P, Munnich A, Schwartz CE, Gothelf D, Colleaux L, Dever TE, Kubisch C, Basel-Vanagaite L. eIF2γ mutation that disrupts eIF2 complex integrity links intellectual disability to impaired translation initiation. Mol Cell 2012; 48:641-6. [PMID: 23063529 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2012] [Revised: 07/24/2012] [Accepted: 09/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Together with GTP and initiator methionyl-tRNA, translation initiation factor eIF2 forms a ternary complex that binds the 40S ribosome and then scans an mRNA to select the AUG start codon for protein synthesis. Here, we show that a human X-chromosomal neurological disorder characterized by intellectual disability and microcephaly is caused by a missense mutation in eIF2γ (encoded by EIF2S3), the core subunit of the heterotrimeric eIF2 complex. Biochemical studies of human cells overexpressing the eIF2γ mutant and of yeast eIF2γ with the analogous mutation revealed a defect in binding the eIF2β subunit to eIF2γ. Consistent with this loss of eIF2 integrity, the yeast eIF2γ mutation impaired translation start codon selection and eIF2 function in vivo in a manner that was suppressed by overexpressing eIF2β. These findings directly link intellectual disability to impaired translation initiation, and provide a mechanistic basis for the human disease due to partial loss of eIF2 function.
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- Guntram Borck
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
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Grønli J, Dagestad G, Milde AM, Murison R, Bramham CR. Post-transcriptional effects and interactions between chronic mild stress and acute sleep deprivation: regulation of translation factor and cytoplasmic polyadenylation element-binding protein phosphorylation. Behav Brain Res 2012; 235:251-62. [PMID: 22917528 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2012] [Revised: 08/02/2012] [Accepted: 08/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Stress and restricted or disrupted sleep trigger adaptive responses in the brain at the level of gene transcription. We investigated the possible impact of chronic mild stress (CMS), acute sleep deprivation, and a combination of these in male rats on post-transcriptional mechanisms important for cognitive function and synaptic plasticity. Relationships between sleep architecture and translational regulators were also assessed. After four weeks of CMS, phosphorylation of two key translation factors, eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) and elongation factor 2 (eEF2), was enhanced in the prefrontal cortex, but unchanged in the hippocampus and dentate gyrus. Sleep deprivation decreased phosphorylated eIF4E in the dentate gyrus. In contrast, eEF2 phosphorylation was elevated in all brain regions after sleep deprivation. Thus, CMS and sleep deprivation, when given alone, have distinct region-specific effects. Furthermore, the combined treatment revealed striking interactions with eEF2 phosphorylation in which sleep deprivation counteracts the effect of CMS cortically and CMS modulates the effects of sleep deprivation in the hippocampus proper. Although CMS exposure alone had no effect in the hippocampus, it inhibited the sleep deprivation-induced eIF4E phosphorylation, while inducing phosphorylation of a major regulatory RNA-binding protein, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element-binding protein (CPEB) in the combined treatment. CMS had no effect on plasma corticosterone, but led to disruption of sleep. Sleep quality and sleep quantity in non-stressed animals showed predictive changes in eIF4E and eEF2 phosphorylation cortically. Prior exposure to CMS abolishes this relationship. We conclude that CMS and acute sleep deprivation have interactive and brain region-specific effects on translational regulators of relevance to mechanisms of stress responsiveness and sleep homeostasis.
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- Janne Grønli
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies Vei 91, N-5009 Bergen, Norway.
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Chao HW, Lai YT, Lu YL, Lin CL, Mai W, Huang YS. NMDAR signaling facilitates the IPO5-mediated nuclear import of CPEB3. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:8484-98. [PMID: 22730302 PMCID: PMC3458550 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element-binding protein (CPEB)3 is a nucleocytoplasm-shuttling RNA-binding protein and predominantly resides in the cytoplasm where it represses target RNA translation. When translocated into the nucleus, CPEB3 binds to Stat5b and downregulates Stat5b-dependent transcription. In neurons, the activation of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) accumulates CPEB3 in the nucleus and redistributes CPEB3 in the nucleocytoplasmic compartments to control gene expression. Nonetheless, it is unclear which karyopherin drives the nuclear import of CPEB3 and which transport direction is most affected by NMDA stimulation to increase the nuclear pool of CPEB3. Here, we have identified that the karyopherins, IPO5 and CRM1, facilitate CPEB3 translocation by binding to RRM1 and a leucine-containing motif of CPEB3, respectively. NMDAR signaling increases RanBP1 expression and reduces the level of cytoplasmic GTP-bound Ran. These changes enhance CPEB3-IPO5 interaction, which consequently accelerates the nuclear import of CPEB3. This study uncovers a novel NMDA-regulated import pathway to facilitate the nuclear translocation of CPEB3.
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- Hsu-Wen Chao
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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