title: Molecular mechanisms underlying activity-dependent AMPA receptor cycling in retinal ganglion cells.
abstract: On retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) transmit light encoded information to the brain and receive excitatory input from On cone bipolar cells (CBPs). The synaptic CBP input onto On RGCs is mediated by AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) that include both those lacking a GluA2 subunit, and are therefore permeable to Ca(2+), and those that possess at least one GluA2 subunit and are Ca(2+)-impermeable. We have previously demonstrated in electrophysiological studies that periods of low synaptic activity, brought about by housing animals in darkness, enhance the proportion of GluA2-lacking AMPARs at the On CBP-On RGC synapse by mobilizing surface GluA2 containing receptors into a receptor pool that rapidly cycles in and out of the membrane. AMPAR cycling induction by reduced synaptic activity takes several hours. This delay suggests that changes in expression of proteins which regulate AMPAR trafficking may mediate the altered mobility of GluA2 AMPARs in RGCs. In this study, we test the hypothesis that AMPAR trafficking proteins couple synaptic activity to AMPAR cycling in RGCs. Immunocytochemical and biochemical analyses confirmed that darkness decreases surface GluA2 in RGCs and changed the expression levels of three proteins associated with GluA2 trafficking. GRIP was decreased, while PICK1 and Arc were increased. Knockdown of GRIP with siRNA elevated constitutive AMPAR cycling, mimicking effects of reduced synaptic activity, while knockdown of PICK1 and Arc blocked increases in constitutive GluA2 trafficking. Our results support a role for correlated, activity-driven changes in multiple AMPAR trafficking proteins that modulate GluA2 cycling which can in turn affect synaptic AMPAR composition in RGCs.
authors.affiliation: Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Rose F. Kennedy Center, 1410 Pelham Parkway, Bronx, NY 10461, United States.
authors.forename: Tanya M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Casimiro
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nawy
authors.forename: Reed C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Carroll
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D021381:Protein Transport; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018091:Receptors, AMPA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012165:Retinal Ganglion Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D013570:Synaptic Membranes / Q000378:metabolism; D009435:Synaptic Transmission
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C491308:Grip1 protein, rat; C118486:Grip2 protein, rat; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C498298:PICK1 protein, rat; D018091:Receptors, AMPA; C092069:activity regulated cytoskeletal-associated protein; C104722:glutamate receptor ionotropic, AMPA 2
keywords: AMPA receptor; Arc; GRIP; PICK1; Plasticity; Retina
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