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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 399, Issue 1-2, Pages 33-38Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.045
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memory; fear conditioning; Ptprz; p190 RhoGAP; hippocampus; tyrosine phosphorylation
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Ptprz is a receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatase predominantly expressed in the brain as a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan. Ptprz-deficient mice exhibit an age (maturation)-dependent impairment of spatial learning in the Morris water maze test and enhancement of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the CA I region in hippocampal slices. The enhanced LTP is canceled out by pharmacological inhibition of Rho-associated kinase (ROCK), suggesting that the lack of Ptprz causes learning impairment due to aberrant activation of ROCK. Here, we report that Ptprz-deficient mice exhibit impairments in hippocampus-dependent contextual fear memory because of abnormal tyrosine phosphorylation of p190 RhoGAR a GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for Rho GTPase. We found that phosphorylation at Y1105, a major tyrosine phosphorylation site on p190 RhoGAP, is decreased I It after the conditioning in the hippocampus of wild-type mice, but not of Ptprz-deficient mice. Pleiotrophin, a ligand for Ptprz, increased tyrosine phosphorylation of p190 RhoGAP in B103 neuroblastoma cells. Furthermore, Ptprz selectively dephosphorylated pY1 105 of p190 RhoGAP in vitro, and the tyrosine phosphorylation at Y1 105 controls p190 RhoGAP activity in vivo. These results Suggest that Ptprz plays a critical role in memory formation by modulating Rho GTPase activity through dephosphorylation at Y1 105 oil p190 RhoGAR (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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