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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 25, 2007, 27(17):4674-4686; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5365-06.2007

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Differential Regulation of AMPA Receptor Trafficking by Neurabin-Targeted Synaptic Protein Phosphatase-1 in Synaptic Transmission and Long-Term Depression in Hippocampus

Xiao-dong Hu, ^* Qing Huang, ^* Xian Yang, and Houhui Xia

Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Houhui Xia, Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112. Email: hxia{at}lsuhsc.edu

Filamentous actin binding protein neurabin I (NrbI) targets protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) to specific postsynaptic microdomains, exerting critical control over AMPA receptor (AMPAR)-mediated synaptic transmission. NrbI-targeted synaptic PP1, which promotes synaptic depression upon long-term depression (LTD) stimuli, serves to prevent synaptic depression under basal conditions. The present studies investigate this opposite regulation of AMPAR trafficking during basal synaptic transmission and LTD by expressing NrbI or NrbI mutant, which is defective in PP1 binding, in hippocampal slice or neuron cultures. We find that expression of the NrbI mutant to interfere with PP1 targeting dramatically reduces basal synaptic transmission, which is correlated with the reduction in surface expression of AMPA subtype glutamate receptor (GluR) 1 and GluR2 subunits. Biochemical analysis demonstrates that the NrbI mutant selectively increases the phosphorylation of GluR2 at C-terminal consensus PKC site, serine 880, which is known to favor GluR2 interaction with PDZ (postsynaptic density 95/Discs large/zona occludens 1) protein PICK1 (protein interacting with C kinase-1). Inhibition of PKC activity or GluR2–PICK1 interaction completely reverses the synaptic depression in neurons expressing the NrbI mutant, suggesting that NrbI-targeted synaptic PP1 stabilizes the basal transmission by negatively controlling PKC phosphorylation of GluR2 and the subsequent PICK1-mediated decrease in GluR2-containing AMPAR surface expression. Distinct from basal transmission, blocking GluR2–PICK1 interaction or PKC activity produces minimal effects on LTD in NrbI-expressing neurons. Instead, NrbI-targeted PP1 facilitates LTD by dephosphorylating GluR1 at both serine 845 and serine 831, with GluR2 serine 880 phosphorylation unaltered. Our studies thus elucidate that NrbI-targeted PP1, in response to distinct synaptic activities, regulates the synaptic trafficking of specific AMPAR subunits.

Key words: AMPA receptor; hippocampus; phosphatase; synaptic plasticity; synaptic transmission; trafficking

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Received Oct. 18, 2006; revised March 5, 2007; accepted March 24, 2007.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Houhui Xia, Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112. Email: hxia{at}lsuhsc.edu

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