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Age-dependent requirement of AKAP150-anchored PKA and GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors in LTP
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Age-dependent requirement of AKAP150-anchored PKA and GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors in LTP

Yuan Lu, Margaret Allen, Amy R Halt, Michael Weisenhaus, Robert F Dallapiazza, Duane D Hall, Yuriy M Usachev, G Stanley McKnight and Johannes W Hell
The EMBO journal, Vol.26(23), pp.4879-4890
11/28/2007
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601884
PMCID: PMC2099463
PMID: 17972919
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2099463View
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Abstract

Association of PKA with the AMPA receptor GluR1 subunit via the A kinase anchor protein AKAP150 is crucial for GluR1 phosphorylation. Mutating the AKAP150 gene to specifically prevent PKA binding reduced PKA within postsynaptic densities (>70%). It abolished hippocampal LTP in 7–12 but not 4-week-old mice. Inhibitors of PKA and of GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors blocked single tetanus LTP in hippocampal slices of 8 but not 4-week-old WT mice. Inhibitors of GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors also prevented LTP in 2 but not 3-week-old mice. Other studies demonstrate that GluR1 homomeric AMPA receptors are the main GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors in adult hippocampus and require PKA for their functional postsynaptic expression during potentiation. AKAP150-anchored PKA might thus critically contribute to LTP in adult hippocampus in part by phosphorylating GluR1 to foster postsynaptic accumulation of homomeric GluR1 AMPA receptors during initial LTP in 8-week-old mice.
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