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EPILEPSY RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 15-25Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(01)00255-8
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audiogenic seizures; protein phosphorylation; cAMP-dependent protein kinase; Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase 2
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It was shown that increased excitability in neurons underlying epilepsies would be maintained by abnormalities in protein phosphorylation systems. This study was initiated to compare the functioning of Ca2+/calmodulin- and cAMP-dependent systems of protein phosphorylation in homogenates of neocortex and hippocampus in three animal groups: genetically prone to audiogenic seizures (GPAS) rats, GPAS rats exposed to daily repeated audiogenic seizures (AGPAS rats) and nonepileptic Wistar ones. We found significant differences in phosphorylation of 270, 58, 54 and 42 kDa proteins in neocortex and hippocampus of GPAS rats in comparison with Wistar ones. Daily repeated seizures induced further modifications of phosphorylation of these proteins in only hippocampus of AGPAS rats as compared with GPAS ones. Ca2+-independent, functional CAMKII activity was considerably increased in hippocampus but decreased in neocortex of GPAS rats in comparison with Wistar ones. The activity of PKA was increased both in neocortex and hippocampus of GPAS Daily repeated audiogenic seizures induced the decrease of Ca2+-independent CAMKII activity in hippocampus and the increase of PKA activity in neocortex of AGPAS rats in comparison with GPAS ones. The present results indicate that modification of 270, 58, 54, and 42 kDa proteins phosphorylation as well as altered CAMKII and PKA activities might be involved in mechanisms of genetic predisposition to audiogenic seizures. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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