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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 2001, 21(6):1838-1847
Differential Subcellular Localization of mGluR1a and mGluR5 in
the Rat and Monkey Substantia Nigra
George W.
Hubert,
Maryse
Paquet, and
Yoland
Smith
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Division of Neuroscience
and Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Neurons in the rat substantia nigra (SN) are enriched in group I
metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) subtypes and respond to group I
mGluR activation. To better understand the mechanisms by which mGluR1
and mGluR5 mediate these effects, the goal of this study was to
elucidate the subsynaptic localization of these two receptor subtypes
in the rat and monkey substantia nigra. At the light microscope level,
neurons of the SN pars reticulata (SNr) displayed moderate to strong
immunoreactivity for both mGluR1a and mGluR5 in rats and monkeys.
However, mGluR1a labeling was much stronger in monkey than in rat SN
pars compacta (SNc) neurons, whereas a moderate level of mGluR5
immunoreactivity was found in both species. At the electron microscope
level, the immunoreactivity for both group I mGluR subtypes was
primarily expressed postsynaptically, although light mGluR1a labeling
was occasionally seen in axon terminals in the rat SNr. Immunogold
studies revealed a striking difference in the subcellular distribution
of mGluR1a and mGluR5 immunoreactivity in SNr and SNc neurons. Although
the bulk of mGluR1a was attached to the plasma membrane, >80% of
mGluR5 immunoreactivity was intracellular. Plasma membrane-bound
immunoreactivity for group I mGluRs in both SNc and SNr neurons was
mostly extrasynaptic or in the main body of symmetric, putative
GABAergic synapses. On the other hand, asymmetric synapses
either were nonimmunoreactive or displayed perisynaptic labeling. These
data raise important questions about the trafficking, internalization,
and potential functions of group I mGluRs at extrasynaptic sites or
symmetric synapses in the substantia nigra.
Key words:
metabotropic; glutamate; receptor internalization; receptor trafficking; dopamine neurons; Parkinson's disease; immunogold method
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/2161838-10$05.00/0
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