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      Signaling cascade regulating long-term potentiation of GABA(A) receptor responsiveness in cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

      The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
      Animals, Calcineurin, metabolism, Calcineurin Inhibitors, Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2, Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases, antagonists & inhibitors, Cells, Cultured, Cerebellum, cytology, drug effects, Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases, Dopamine and cAMP-Regulated Phosphoprotein 32, Enzyme Inhibitors, pharmacology, GABA Antagonists, Long-Term Potentiation, physiology, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Neural Inhibition, Neuronal Plasticity, Oligonucleotides, Antisense, Patch-Clamp Techniques, Phosphoprotein Phosphatases, Phosphoproteins, genetics, Phosphorylation, Protein Phosphatase 1, Purkinje Cells, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Receptors, GABA-A, Receptors, GABA-B, Signal Transduction, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid

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          Synaptic plasticity, a cellular basis of learning and memory, has been studied extensively at excitatory synapses. Although synaptic plasticity has also been reported at inhibitory synapses, the molecular mechanism remains elusive. Here we attempted to clarify the overall signaling cascades regulating the induction of inhibitory synaptic plasticity in the cerebellum. Rebound potentiation (RP), a long-lasting increase in GABA(A) receptor (GABA(A)R) responsiveness, is induced by postsynaptic depolarization of a Purkinje neuron (PN) at synapses formed with inhibitory interneurons (stellate or basket neurons). Previously, we showed that RP is suppressed by homosynaptic activation during depolarization through activation of the postsynaptic GABA(B) receptor (GABA(B)R). Activation of GABA(B)R reduces cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) activity via the G(i)/G(o)-protein. Here we examined the molecular pathway through which PKA activity affects RP induction. We confirmed that inhibition of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) or PKA suppresses RP. We also found that inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 (PP-1) or calcineurin (PP-2B) impaired suppression of RP induction. Inhibition of either PP-1 or calcineurin abolished RP impairment by PKA inhibition, but not that by CaMKII inhibition. Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knock down of DARPP-32, which is a substrate of PKA and calcineurin and inhibits PP-1 when phosphorylated by PKA, suppressed RP. Furthermore, activation of GABA(B)R inhibited CaMKII activation through PKA inhibition and PP-1 activity. These results suggest that calcineurin activation accompanied by PKA inhibition in a PN causes dephosphorylation of DARPP-32, which releases PP-1 from inhibition. PP-1 in turn inhibits CaMKII activity, which is then directly involved in the RP induction.

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