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The Journal of Neuroscience, November 1, 2000, 20(21):7922-7931
Developmental Changes in Synaptic AMPA and NMDA Receptor
Distribution and AMPA Receptor Subunit Composition in Living
Hippocampal Neurons
Lisa
Pickard,
Jacques
Noël,
Jeremy M.
Henley,
Graham L.
Collingridge, and
Elek
Molnar
Medical Research Council Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, Department
of Anatomy, University of Bristol, School of Medical Sciences,
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom
AMPA and NMDA receptors mediate most excitatory synaptic
transmission in the CNS. We have developed antibodies that recognize all AMPA or all NMDA receptor variants on the surface of living neurons. AMPA receptor variants were identified with a polyclonal antibody recognizing the conserved extracellular loop region of all
four AMPA receptor subunits (GluR1-4, both flip and
flop), whereas NMDA receptors were immunolabeled with a
polyclonal antibody that binds to an extracellular N-terminal epitope
of the NR1 subunit, common to all splice variants. In non-fixed
brain sections these antibodies gave labeling patterns similar to
autoradiographic distributions with particularly high levels in the
hippocampus. Using these antibodies, in conjunction with GluR2-specific
and synaptophysin antibodies, we have directly localized and quantified surface-expressed native AMPA and NMDA receptors on cultured living hippocampal neurons during development. Using a quantitative cell ELISA, a dramatic increase was observed in the surface expression of
AMPA receptors, but not NMDA receptors, between 3 and 10 d in
culture. Immunocytochemical analysis of hippocampal neurons between 3 and 20 d in vitro shows no change in the proportion of synapses expressing NMDA receptors (~60%) but a dramatic increase (~50%) in the proportion of them that also express AMPA receptors. Furthermore, over this period the proportion of AMPA receptor-positive synapses expressing the GluR2 subunit increased from ~67 to ~96%. These changes will dramatically alter the functional properties of
hippocampal synapses.
Key words:
glutamate; AMPA; NMDA; GluR; development; synapse; antibody; histoblot; hippocampal neurons; immunofluorescence; cellular
ELISA
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/00/20217922-10$05.00/0
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