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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 12, 2005, 25(41):9378-9383; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2100-05.2005
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Neuregulin-1 Reverses Long-Term Potentiation at CA1 Hippocampal Synapses
Oh-Bin Kwon,1 *
Marines Longart,1 *
Detlef Vullhorst,1
Dax A. Hoffman,2 and
Andres Buonanno1
1Section on Molecular Neurobiology and 2Unit on Molecular Neurophysiology and Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-3714
Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) has been identified genetically as a schizophrenia susceptibility gene, but its function in the adult brain is unknown. Here, we show that NRG-1 does not affect basal synaptic transmission but reverses long-term potentiation (LTP) at hippocampal Schaffer collateral CA1 synapses in an activity- and time-dependent manner. Depotentiation by NRG-1 is blocked by two structurally distinct and selective ErbB receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Moreover, ErbB receptor inhibition increases LTP at potentiated synapses and blocks LTP reversal by theta-pulse stimuli. NRG-1 selectively reduces AMPA, not NMDA, receptor EPSCs and has no effect on paired-pulse facilitation ratios. Live imaging of hippocampal neurons transfected with receptors fused to superecliptic green fluorescent protein, as well as quantitative analysis of native receptors, show that NRG-1 stimulates the internalization of surface glutamate receptor 1-containing AMPA receptors. This novel regulation of LTP by NRG-1 has important implications for the modulation of synaptic homeostasis and schizophrenia.
Key words: neuregulin; depotentiation; ErbB receptor; LTP; LTD; schizophrenia; superecliptic GFP
Received May 24, 2005;
revised September 2, 2005;
accepted September 2, 2005.
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