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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 2002, 22(7):2590-2597
Cdk5/p35 Regulates Neurotransmitter Release through
Phosphorylation and Downregulation of P/Q-Type Voltage-Dependent
Calcium Channel Activity
Kazuhito
Tomizawa1,
Jun
Ohta2,
Masayuki
Matsushita1,
Akiyoshi
Moriwaki1,
Sheng-Tian
Li1,
Kohji
Takei3, and
Hideki
Matsui1
Departments of 1 Physiology,
2 Biochemistry, and 3 Neuroscience, Okayama
University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is a proline-directed
serine/threonine kinase with close structural homology to the mitotic Cdks. The complex of Cdk5 and p35, the neuron-specific regulatory subunit of Cdk5, plays important roles in brain development, such as
neuronal migration and neurite outgrowth. Moreover, Cdk5 is thought to
be involved in the promotion of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.
Cdk5 is abundant in mature neurons; however, its physiological
functions in the adult brain are unknown. Here we show that Cdk5/p35
regulates neurotransmitter release in the presynaptic terminal. Both
Cdk5 and p35 were abundant in the synaptosomes. Roscovitine, a specific
inhibitor of Cdk5 in neurons, induced neurotransmitter release from the
synaptosomes in response to membrane depolarization and enhanced the
EPSP slopes in rat hippocampal slices. The electrophysiological study
using each specific inhibitor of the voltage-dependent calcium channels
(VDCCs) and calcium imaging revealed that roscovitine enhanced
Ca2+ influx from the P/Q-type VDCC. Moreover,
Cdk5/p25 phosphorylated the intracellular loop connecting domains II
and III (LII-III) between amino acid residues 724 and 981 of isoforms cloned from rat brain of the
1A subunit of P/Q-type Ca2+ channels.
The phosphorylation inhibited the interaction of LII-III with SNAP-25 and synaptotagmin I, which were plasma membrane soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein
(SNAP) receptor (SNARE) proteins and were required for efficient
neurotransmitter release. These results strongly suggest that
Cdk5/p35 inhibits neurotransmitter release through the phosphorylation
of P/Q-type VDCC and downregulation of the channel activity.
Key words:
Cdk5; presynapse; calcium channel; SNARE; p35; exocytosis
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/2272590-08$05.00/0
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