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Protein Kinase C Activation Attenuates N-Methyl-d-Aspartate-Induced Increases in Intracellular Calcium in Cerebellar Granule Cells
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| Author | Snell, Lawrence D. Lorio, Karen R. Tabakoff, Boris Hoffman, Paula L. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Description | Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry Activation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptor increases levels of intracellular calcium and can lead to stimulation of protein kinase C activity. Several reports have demonstrated that stimulation of protein kinase C can, in turn, increase electrophysiological responses to NMDA in certain cells or in oocytes expressing certain NMDA receptor subunits. In the present study, the effects of protein kinase C activation on NMDA receptor-mediated increases in intracellular Ca2+ level were investigated in primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule cells using fura-2 fluorescence spectroscopy. Pretreatment of the cells with the protein kinase C activator phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), but not the inactive analogue 4 alpha-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, inhibited NMDA-induced increases in intracellular Ca2+ levels. Coincubation of cells with PMA and the kinase inhibitor staurosporine or calphostin C blocked the PMA effect. The potency of NMDA was reduced twofold, and the potency of the NMDA receptor co-agonist, glycine, to enhance the response to NMDA was decreased fourfold by pretreatment of cells with PMA. The effect on glycine was mimicked by pretreatment with okadaic acid, a protein phosphatase inhibitor. PMA treatment did not significantly alter Mg2+ inhibition of the NMDA response but decreased the potency of the competitive antagonist CGS-19755. These data suggest that, in cerebellar granule cells, the function of the NMDA receptor may be subject to feed-back inhibition by protein kinase C stimulation. Under physiological conditions, this inhibition may result from a decreased effectiveness of the endogenous co-agonists, glutamate and glycine. |
| Related Links | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.62051783.x/pdf |
| Ending Page | 1789 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| Starting Page | 1783 |
| e-ISSN | 14714159 |
| DOI | 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.62051783.x |
| Journal | Journal of Neurochemistry |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 62 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2008-06-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Protein Kinase Co Agonist Induced Increases |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |