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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 291, 期 4, 页码 1719-1734出版社
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M115.666529
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- National Institutes of Health [NS041787]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
Diverse lines of evidence suggest that amyloid-beta (A beta) peptides causally contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD), the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder. However, the mechanisms by which A beta impairs neuronal functions remain to be fully elucidated. Previous studies showed that soluble A beta oligomers interfere with synaptic functions by depleting NMDA-type glutamate receptors (NMDARs) from the neuronal surface and that overexpression of the receptor tyrosine kinase EphB2 can counteract this process. Through pharmacological treatments and biochemical analyses of primary neuronal cultures expressing wild-type or mutant forms of EphB2, we demonstrate that this protective effect of EphB2 depends on its PDZ-binding motif and the presence of neuronal activity but not on its kinase activity. We further present evidence that the protective effect of EphB2 may be mediated by the AMPA-type glutamate receptor subunit GluA2, which can become associated with the PDZ-binding motif of EphB2 through PDZ domain-containing proteins and can promote the retention of NMDARs in the membrane. In addition, we show that the A beta-induced depletion of surface NMDARs does not depend on several factors that have been implicated in the pathogenesis of A beta-induced neuronal dysfunction, including aberrant neuronal activity, tau, prion protein (PrPC), and EphB2 itself. Thus, although EphB2 does not appear to be directly involved in the A beta-induced depletion of NMDARs, increasing its expression may counteract this pathogenic process through a neuronal activity-and PDZ-dependent regulation of AMPA-type glutamate receptors.
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