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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 15, 2000, 20(2):666-673
SNARE Protein-Dependent Glutamate Release from Astrocytes
Alfonso
Araque,
Nianzhen
Li,
Robert T.
Doyle, and
Philip
G.
Haydon
Laboratory of Cellular Signaling, Department of Zoology and
Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
We investigated the cellular mechanisms underlying the
Ca2+-dependent release of glutamate from cultured
astrocytes isolated from rat hippocampus. Using Ca2+
imaging and electrophysiological techniques, we analyzed the effects of
disrupting astrocytic vesicle proteins on the ability of astrocytes to
release glutamate and to cause neuronal electrophysiological responses,
i.e., a slow inward current (SIC) and/or an increase in the frequency
of miniature synaptic currents. We found that the
Ca2+-dependent glutamate release from astrocytes is
not caused by the reverse operation of glutamate transporters, because
the astrocyte-induced glutamate-mediated responses in neurons were
affected neither by inhibitors of glutamate transporters
( -threo-hydroxyaspartate, dihydrokainate, and
L-trans-pyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate) nor by replacement of extracellular sodium with lithium. We show that Ca2+-dependent glutamate release from astrocytes
requires an electrochemical gradient necessary for glutamate uptake in
vesicles, because bafilomycin A1, a vacuolar-type
H+-ATPase inhibitor, reduced glutamate release from
astrocytes. Injection of astrocytes with the light chain of the
neurotoxin Botulinum B that selectively cleaves the vesicle-associated
SNARE protein synaptobrevin inhibited the astrocyte-induced glutamate response in neurons. Therefore, the Ca2+-dependent
glutamate release from astrocytes is a SNARE protein-dependent process
that requires the presence of functional vesicle-associated proteins,
suggesting that astrocytes store glutamate in vesicles and that it is
released through an exocytotic pathway.
Key words:
astrocyte-neuron signaling; astrocyte calcium waves; transmitter release; Botulinum neurotoxin; bafilomycin; exocytosis; SNARE protein; V-ATPase
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/00/202666-08$05.00/0
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