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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 15, 2002, 22(20):9134-9141
The Origin and Neuronal Function of In Vivo
Nonsynaptic Glutamate
David A.
Baker,
Zheng-Xiong
Xi,
Hui
Shen,
Chad J.
Swanson, and
Peter W.
Kalivas
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Medical University of
South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425
Basal extracellular glutamate sampled in vivo is
present in micromolar concentrations in the extracellular space outside
the synaptic cleft, and neither the origin nor the function of this glutamate is known. This report reveals that blockade of glutamate release from the cystine-glutamate antiporter produced a significant decrease (60%) in extrasynaptic glutamate levels in the rat striatum, whereas blockade of voltage-dependent Na+ and
Ca2+ channels produced relatively minimal changes
(0-30%). This indicates that the primary origin of in
vivo extrasynaptic glutamate in the striatum arises from
nonvesicular glutamate release by the cystine-glutamate
antiporter. By measuring [35S]cystine uptake, it
was shown that similar to vesicular release, the activity of the
cystine-glutamate antiporter is negatively regulated by group II
metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR2/3) via a cAMP-dependent
protein kinase mechanism. Extracellular glutamate derived from the
antiporter was shown to regulate extracellular levels of glutamate and
dopamine. Infusion of the mGluR2/3 antagonist (RS)-1-amino-5-phosphonoindan-1-carboxylic acid (APICA)
increased extracellular glutamate levels, and previous blockade of the
antiporter prevented the APICA-induced rise in extracellular glutamate.
This suggests that glutamate released from the antiporter is a source of endogenous tone on mGluR2/3. Blockade of the antiporter also produced an increase in extracellular dopamine that was reversed by
infusing the mGluR2/3 agonist
(2R,4R)-4-aminopyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxlylate, indicating that antiporter-derived glutamate can modulate dopamine transmission via mGluR2/3 heteroreceptors. These results suggest that
nonvesicular release from the cystine-glutamate antiporter is the
primary source of in vivo extracellular glutamate and
that this glutamate can modulate both glutamate and dopamine transmission.
Key words:
microdialysis; glutamate; cystine; striatum; nonvesicular; cystine-glutamate antiporter; system xc
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/22209134-08$05.00/0
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