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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 503, Issue 3, Pages 1599-1604Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.07.087
Keywords
Synaptic plasticity; Synaptic scaling; Postsynaptic density; Synaptic GTPase activating protein (synGAP); Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5); Polo-like kinase 2 (Plk2)
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Funding
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation)
- Hicks Foundation for Alzheimer's Research
- Allen and Lenabelle Davis Foundation
- National Institutes of Health Grant [MH095095]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [2006019582]
- National Institutes of Health [NIH/NRSA 5 T32 GM07616]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [GBMF775]
- Beckman Institute
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SynGAP is a Ras and Rap GTPase-activating protein (GAP) found in high concentration in the postsynaptic density (PSD) fraction from mammalian forebrain where it binds to PDZ domains of PSD-95. Phosphorylation of pure recombinant synGAP by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) shifts the balance of synGAP's GAP activity toward inactivation of Rapl; whereas phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) has the opposite effect, shifting the balance toward inactivation of HRas. These shifts in balance contribute to regulation of the numbers of surface AMPA receptors, which rise during synaptic potentiation (CaMKII) and fall during synaptic scaling (CDK5). Polo-like kinase 2 (Plk2/SNK), like CDK5, contributes to synaptic scaling. These two kinases act in concert to reduce the number of surface AMPA receptors following elevated neuronal activity by tagging spine-associated RapGAP protein (SPAR) for degradation, thus raising the level of activated Rap. Here we show that Plk2 also phosphorylates and regulates synGAP. Phosphorylation of synGAP by Plk2 stimulates its GAP activity toward HRas by 65%, and toward Rapi by 16%. Simultaneous phosphorylation of synGAP by Plk2 and CDK5 at distinct sites produces an additive increase in GAP activity toward HRas (similar to 230%) and a smaller, non-additive increase in activity toward Rapi (similar to 15%). Dual phosphorylation also produces an increase in GAP activity toward Rap2 (similar to 40-50%), an effect not produced by either kinase alone. As we previously observed for CDK5, addition of Ca2+/CaM causes a substrate-directed doubling of the rate and stoichiometry of phosphorylation of synGAP by Plk2, targeting residues also phosphorylated by CaMKII. In summary, phosphorylation by Plk2, like CDK5, shifts the ratio of GAP activity of synGAP to produce a greater decrease in active Ras than in active Rap, which would produce a shift toward a decrease in the number of surface AMPA receptors in neuronal dendrites. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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