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J Neurophysiol 84: 2739-2745, 2000;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 84 No. 6 December 2000, pp. 2739-2745
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

Genetic and Pharmacological Demonstration of Differential Recruitment of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinases by Synaptic Activity

Newton H. Woo,1,* Steven N. Duffy,1,2,* Ted Abel,3 and Peter V. Nguyen1,2

 1Department of Physiology and  2Division of Neuroscience, University of Alberta School of Medicine, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada; and  3Department of Biology and Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Woo, Newton H., Steven N. Duffy, Ted Abel, and Peter V. Nguyen. Genetic and Pharmacological Demonstration of Differential Recruitment of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinases by Synaptic Activity. J. Neurophysiol. 84: 2739-2745, 2000. cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) is believed to play a critical role in the expression of long-lasting forms of hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP). Can distinct patterns of synaptic activity induce forms of LTP that require different isoforms of PKA? To address this question, we used transgenic mice that have genetically reduced hippocampal PKA activity, and a specific pharmacological inhibitor of PKA, Rp-cAMPS. Transgenic mice [R(AB) mice] that express an inhibitory form of a particular type of regulatory subunit of PKA (type-Ialpha ) showed significantly reduced LTP in area CA1 of hippocampal slices as compared with slices from wild-type mice. This impairment of LTP expression was evident when LTP was induced by applying repeated, temporally spaced stimulation (4 1-s bursts of 100-Hz applied once every 5 min). In contrast, LTP induced by applying just 60 pulses in a theta-burst pattern was normal in slices from R(AB) mice as compared with slices from wild-type mice. We found that Rp-cAMPS blocked the expression of LTP induced by both spaced tetra-burst and compressed theta-burst stimulation in hippocampal slices of wild-type and R(AB) mice, respectively. Since Rp-cAMPS is a PKA inhibitor that is not selective for any particular isoform of PKA and these R(AB) mice show reduced hippocampal PKA activity resulting from genetic manipulation of a single isoform of PKA regulatory subunit, our data support the idea that distinct patterns of synaptic activity can produce different forms of LTP that significantly engage different isoforms of PKA. In particular, theta-burst LTP significantly recruits isoforms of PKA containing regulatory subunits other than the mutant RIalpha subunit, whereas tetra-burst LTP requires PKA isoforms containing the mutant RIalpha subunit. Thus, altering both the total amount of imposed synaptic activity and the temporal spacing between bursts of imposed activity may subtly modulate the PKA dependence of hippocampal LTP by engaging distinct isoforms of PKA. In a broader context, our findings suggest that synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain might be importantly regulated by activity-dependent recruitment of different isoforms of key signal transduction molecules.

* N. H. Woo and S. N. Duffy contributed equally to this work.




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