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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 35, Issue 14, Pages 5606-5624Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3650-14.2015
Keywords
BDNF; calcineurin; CRTC1; GPCR; NMDAR; PACAP
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Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Funds [20390023, 25870256]
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25116507, 25870256, 20390023] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Although coordinated molecular signaling through excitatory and modulatory neurotransmissions is critical for the induction of immediate early genes (IEGs), which lead to effective changes in synaptic plasticity, the intracellular mechanisms responsible remain obscure. Here we measured the expression of IEGs and used bioluminescence imaging to visualize the expression of Bdnf when GPCRs, major neuromodulator receptors, were stimulated. Stimulation of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP)-specific receptor (PAC1), a G alpha(s/q)-protein-coupled GPCR, with PACAP selectively activated the calcineurin (CN) pathway that is controlled by calcium signals evoked via NMDAR. This signaling pathway then induced the expression of Bdnf and CN-dependent IEGs through the nuclear translocation of CREB-regulated transcriptional coactivator 1 (CRTC1). Intracerebroventricular injection of PACAP and intraperitoneal administration of MK801 in mice demonstrated that functional interactions between PAC1 and NMDAR induced the expression of Bdnf in the brain. Coactivation of NMDAR and PAC1 synergistically induced the expression of Bdnf attributable to selective activation of the CN pathway. This CN pathway-controlled expression of Bdnf was also induced by stimulating other G alpha(s)- or G alpha(q)-coupled GPCRs, such as dopamine D-1, adrenaline beta, CRF, and neurotensin receptors, either with their cognate agonists or by direct stimulation of the protein kinase A (PKA)/PKC pathway with chemical activators. Thus, the GPCR-induced expression of IEGs in coordination with NMDAR might occur via the selective activation of the CN/CRTC1/CREB pathway under simultaneous excitatory and modulatory synaptic transmissions in neurons if either the G alpha(s)/adenylate cyclase/PKA or G alpha(q)/PLC/PKC-mediated pathway is activated.
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