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  • Title: Regulation of the phosphorylation state of the AMPA receptor GluR1 subunit in the postsynaptic density.
    Author: Vinade L, Dosemeci A.
    Journal: Cell Mol Neurobiol; 2000 Aug; 20(4):451-63. PubMed ID: 10901266.
    Abstract:
    1. Changes in the phosphorylation state of AMPA-type glutamate receptors are thought to underlie activity-dependent synaptic modification. It has been established that the GluR1 subunit is phosphorylated on two distinct sites, Ser-831 and Ser-845, by CaMKII and by PKA, respectively, and that phosphorylation by either kinase correlates with an increase in the AMPA receptor-mediated current. GluR1 is concentrated in postsynaptic densities and it is expected that this particular receptor pool is involved in synaptic modification. The present study describes the regulation of the phosphorylation state of GluR1 in isolated postsynaptic densities. 2. Addition of Ca2+/calmodulin to the postsynaptic density fraction promotes phosphorylation of GluR1, and under these conditions, dephosphorylation is prevented by the inclusion of phosphatase type 1 inhibitors, microcystin-LR and Inhibitor-1. CaMKII and phosphatase type 1 are also found to be enriched in the PSD fraction compared to the parent fractions. 3. On the other hand, the addition of cAMP, either by itself or with exogenous PKA, does not change the phosphorylation state of GluR1. Prior incubation of PSDs under dephosphorylating conditions results in only a small PKA-mediated phosphorylation of GluR1. 4. These results support the hypothesis that PSDs contain the molecular machinery to promote the phosphorylation as well as the dephosphorylation of GluR1 on Ser-831, while Ser-845, the site phosphorylated by PKA, appears to be mostly occluded. Thus, it is possible that a large pool of PSD-associated GluR1 is regulated through modification of the phosphorylation state of the Ser-831 site only.
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