title: Experience-dependent increase in cAMP-responsive element binding protein in synaptic and nonsynaptic mitochondria of the rat hippocampus.
abstract: Cyclic AMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB) plays a pivotal role in the formation of long-term memory in Drosophila, Aplysia, mice and rats. Recently, we were able to demonstrate that CREB and its serine 133 phosphorylated form p-CREB are localized in synaptic and nonsynaptic mitochondria of the rat brain. Here we report on the effect of a one-trial inhibitory avoidance training procedure on mitochondrial CREB from the rat hippocampus. This aversively motivated training task is associated with a time-dependent increase (34-35%) in both p-CREB and CREB immunoreactivities detected in synaptic mitochondria of the hippocampus. In nonsynaptic mitochondria, p-CREB levels increased in both trained and shocked animals. In addition to CREB, two CRE-element binding repressors, CREB-2 and CREM-1, were also detected in purified brain mitochondria. No changes were observed in CREB-2 and CREM-1 immunoreactivities in hippocampal synaptic mitochondria after an inhibitory avoidance training. Taken together the present findings represent the first evidence showing that brain mitochondrial CREB may participate in plasticity-dependent changes associated with a behavioural training procedure.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biologia Celular y Neurociencias 'Prof. dr Educardo de Robertis', Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Bevilaqua
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cammarota
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paratcha
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: de Stein
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Izquierdo
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Medina
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001923:Brain Chemistry / Q000502:physiology; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D051786:Cyclic AMP Response Element Modulator; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein / Q000378:metabolism*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000378:metabolism; D013569:Synapses / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D051786:Cyclic AMP Response Element Modulator