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J Neurophysiol 85: 1368-1376, 2001;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 85 No. 4 April 2001, pp. 1368-1376
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Is Persistent Activity of Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Kinase Required for the Maintenance of LTP?

Huan-Xin Chen,1 Nikolai Otmakhov,1 Stefan Strack,2 Roger J. Colbran,2 and John E. Lisman1

 1Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454; and  2Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232

Chen, Huan-Xin, Nikolai Otmakhov, Stefan Strack, Roger J. Colbran, and John E. Lisman. Is Persistent Activity of Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Kinase Required for the Maintenance of LTP?. J. Neurophysiol. 85: 1368-1376, 2001. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is concentrated in the postsynaptic density (PSD) and plays an important role in the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP). Because this kinase is persistently activated after the induction, its activity could also be important for LTP maintenance. Experimental tests of this hypothesis, however, have given conflicting results. In this paper we further explore the role of postsynaptic CaMKII in induction and maintenance of LTP. Postsynaptic application of a CaMKII inhibitor [autocamtide-3 derived peptide inhibitor (AC3-I), 2 mM] blocked LTP induction but had no detectable affect on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-mediated synaptic transmission, indicating that the primary function of CaMKII in LTP is downstream from NMDA channel function. We next explored various methodological factors that could account for conflicting results on the effect of CaMKII inhibitors on LTP maintenance. In contrast to our previous work, we now carried out experiments at higher temperature (33°C), used slices from adult animals, and induced LTP using a tetanic stimulation. However, we still found that LTP maintenance was not affected by postsynaptic application of AC3-I. Furthermore the inhibitor did not block LTP maintenance under conditions designed to enhance the Ca2+-dependent activity of protein phosphatases 1 and 2B (elevated Ca2+, calmodulin, and an inhibitor of protein kinase A). We also tested the possibility that CaMKII inhibitor might not be able to affect CaMKII once it was inserted into the PSD. In whole-brain extracts, AC3-I blocked autophosphorylation of both soluble and particulate/PSD CaMKII with similar potencies although the potency of the inhibitor toward other CaMKII substrates varied. Thus we were unable to demonstrate a functional role of persistent Ca2+-independent CaMKII activity in LTP maintenance. Possible explanations of the data are discussed.




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