Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
Volume 109, Issue 1, Pages 214-224Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.05949.x
Keywords
estradiol; estrogen receptor; hypothalamus; neuronal nitric oxide synthase; NMDA receptor; post-synaptic density-95
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- Institut National de la SantE et de la Recherche MEdicale (Inserm, France) [U837]
- Fondation pour la Recherche MEdicale (Equipe FRM)
- l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- UniversitE Lille 2
- imaging Core of IFR114
- fellowship from Inserm and the REgion Nord Pas de Calais
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Estrogens and nitric oxide (NO) exert wide-ranging effects on brain function. Recent evidence suggested that one important mechanism for the regulation of NO production may reside in the differential coupling of the calcium-activated neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) to glutamate NMDA receptor channels harboring NR2B subunits by the scaffolding protein post-synaptic density-95 (PSD-95), and that estrogens promote the formation of this ternary complex. Here, we demonstrate that 30-min estradiol-treatment triggers the production of NO by physically and functionally coupling NMDA receptors to nNOS in primary neurons of the rat preoptic region in vitro. The ability of estradiol to activate neuronal NO signaling in preoptic neurons and to promote changes in protein-protein interactions is blocked by ICI 182,780, an estrogen receptor antagonist. In addition, blockade of NMDA receptor NR2B subunit activity with ifenprodil or disruption of PSD-95 synthesis in preoptic neurons by treatment with an anti-sense oligodeoxynucleotide inhibited the estradiol-promoted stimulation of NO release in cultured preoptic neurons. Thus, estrogen receptor-mediated stimulation of the nNOS/PSD-95/NMDA receptor complex assembly is likely to be a critical component of the signaling process by which estradiol facilitates coupling of glutamatergic fluxes for NO production in neurons.
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