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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
卷 78, 期 1, 页码 56-63出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20237
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astrocytes; glutamate receptors; transducisome; cytoskeleton; Bergmann glia
Glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter, induces a wide array of signals from the membrane to the nucleus regulating gene expression. In Bergmann glia, Ca2+-permeable alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionic acid (AMPA) receptors are involved in the short- and long-term interactions between these cells and the neurons that they surround. After activation, AMPA receptors become tyrosine phosphorylated and by these means form multiprotein signaling complexes. To characterize these events, cultured chick Bergmann glia cells as well as chick cerebellar slices were exposed to glutamate, and, by using a combination of immuno-precipitation assays coupled to Western blot analysis, we identified several signaling proteins that become associated with these receptors. A dose- and time-dependent association among AMPA receptors, the focal adhesion kinase pp125(FAK), the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase and paxillin was found. These results extend the concept of the transducisome to AMPA receptors and provide a framework in which a plausible control of the cytoskeletal network by glutamate is taking place, most possibly through AMPA receptors. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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