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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 27, 2008, 28(9):2119-2130; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5159-07.2008

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Neurobiology of Disease
Rapid Tumor Necrosis Factor -Induced Exocytosis of Glutamate Receptor 2-Lacking AMPA Receptors to Extrasynaptic Plasma Membrane Potentiates Excitotoxicity

Dmitri Leonoudakis, Pingwei Zhao, and Eric C. Beattie

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94107

Correspondence should be addressed to Eric C. Beattie, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, 475 Brannan Street, Suite 220, San Francisco, CA 94107. Email: beattie{at}cpmcri.org

The postinjury inflammatory response in the CNS leads to neuronal excitotoxicity. Our previous studies show that a major component of this response, the inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF), causes a rapid increase in AMPA glutamate receptors (AMPARs) on the plasma membrane of cultured hippocampal neurons. This may potentiate neuron death through an increased vulnerability to AMPAR-dependent excitotoxic stress. Here, we test this hypothesis with an in vitro lactose dehydrogenase death assay and examine in detail the AMPAR surface delivery time course, receptor subtype, and synaptic and extrasynaptic distribution after TNF exposure. These data demonstrate that surface levels of glutamate receptor 2 (GluR2)-lacking Ca²⁺-permeable AMPARs peak at 15 min after TNF treatment, and the majority are directed to extrasynaptic sites. TNF also induces an increase in GluR2-containing surface AMPARs but with a slower time course. We propose that this activity contributes to excitotoxic neuron death because TNF potentiation of kainate excitotoxicity is blocked by a Ca²⁺-permeable AMPAR antagonist [NASPM (1-naphthyl acetyl spermine)] and a specific phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI3 kinase) inhibitor (LY294,002 [2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one]) previously shown to block the TNF-induced increase in AMPAR surface delivery. This information forms the basis for future in vivo studies examining AMPAR-dependent potentiation of excitotoxic neuron death and dysfunction caused by TNF after acute injury and during neurodegenerative or neuropsychiatric disorders.

Key words: TNF; AMPAR; trafficking; extrasynaptic; excitotoxicity; calcium-permeable

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Received July 26, 2007; revised Dec. 17, 2007; accepted Dec. 18, 2007.

Correspondence should be addressed to Eric C. Beattie, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, 475 Brannan Street, Suite 220, San Francisco, CA 94107. Email: beattie{at}cpmcri.org

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