期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
卷 93, 期 11, 页码 1684-1692出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23626
关键词
CRMP; nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; synaptic plasticity; phosphorylation; ubiquitin
资金
- Smoking Research Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, Sports, and Technology, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24500389] Funding Source: KAKEN
We have previously reported that nicotine application to the adult mouse causing long-term potentiation-like facilitation in vivo in the hippocampus can serve as a model of synaptic plasticity. The present study clarifies the involvement of collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP2) in synaptic plasticity. CRMP2 was detected in hippocampal neurons of adult mice. The levels of CRMP2 mRNA and protein were increased 2-24 hr and 4-24 hr, respectively, after application of nicotine (3 mg/kg, i.p.), finally returning to the basal level by 48 hr. Furthermore, the ratio of phosphorylated CRMP2 (pCRMP2) at Thr514 residue, an inactive form, to total CRMP2 levels was not changed during synaptic plasticity expressed by nicotine, indicating an enhanced level of non-pCRMP2. This increase of CRMP2 was inhibited by blockade of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and required activation of both alpha 4 beta 2 and alpha 7 nAChRs. Although the level of ubiquitinated CRMP2 was increased 8 hr after nicotine treatment, the ratio of ubiquitinated CRMP2 to total CRMP2 protein was similar for nicotine-treated and nontreated mice. This study demonstrates that the expression of CRMP2 increases in hippocampal neurons during synaptic plasticity and that the increment is due mainly to mRNA expression. We propose that CRMP2, particularly non-pCRMP2, could contribute to long-lasting synaptic plasticity. (C) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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