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  A rapamycin-sensitive signaling pathway contributes to long-term synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus

Tang, S. J., Reis, G., Kang, H., Gingras, A. C., Sonenberg, N., & Schuman, E. M. (2002). A rapamycin-sensitive signaling pathway contributes to long-term synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 99(1), 467-72. doi:10.1073/pnas.012605299.

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Tang, S. J., Author
Reis, G., Author
Kang, H., Author
Gingras, A. C., Author
Sonenberg, N., Author
Schuman, Erin M.1, Author           
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1Synaptic Plasticity Department, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max Planck Society, ou_2461710              

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Free keywords: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing Animals Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/*pharmacology Blotting, Western Carrier Proteins/biosynthesis Cell Cycle Proteins Disks Large Homolog 4 Protein Electrophysiology Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4E *Eukaryotic Initiation Factors Female Guanylate Kinases Hippocampus/*metabolism/*physiology Immunoglobulin G/metabolism Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins Male Membrane Proteins Mice Mice, Inbred C57BL Microscopy, Fluorescence Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism Peptide Initiation Factors/biosynthesis Phosphoproteins/biosynthesis Protein Binding Protein Biosynthesis Protein Kinases/biosynthesis Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley *Signal Transduction Sirolimus/*metabolism/pharmacology Synapses/*metabolism TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases Time Factors
 Abstract: Many forms of long-lasting behavioral and synaptic plasticity require the synthesis of new proteins. For example, long-term potentiation (LTP) that endures for more than an hour requires both transcription and translation. The signal-transduction mechanisms that couple synaptic events to protein translational machinery during long-lasting synaptic plasticity, however, are not well understood. One signaling pathway that is stimulated by growth factors and results in the translation of specific mRNAs includes the rapamycin-sensitive kinase mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR, also known as FRAP and RAFT-1). Several components of this translational signaling pathway, including mTOR, eukaryotic initiation factor-4E-binding proteins 1 and 2, and eukaryotic initiation factor-4E, are present in the rat hippocampus as shown by Western blot analysis, and these proteins are detected in the cell bodies and dendrites in the hippocampal slices by immunostaining studies. In cultured hippocampal neurons, these proteins are present in dendrites and are often found near the presynaptic protein, synapsin I. At synaptic sites, their distribution completely overlaps with a postsynaptic protein, PSD-95. These observations suggest the postsynaptic localization of these proteins. Disruption of mTOR signaling by rapamycin results in a reduction of late-phase LTP expression induced by high-frequency stimulation; the early phase of LTP is unaffected. Rapamycin also blocks the synaptic potentiation induced by brain-derived neurotrophic factor in hippocampal slices. These results demonstrate an essential role for rapamycin-sensitive signaling in the expression of two forms of synaptic plasticity that require new protein synthesis. The localization of this translational signaling pathway at postsynaptic sites may provide a mechanism that controls local protein synthesis at potentiated synapses.

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 Dates: 2002-01-05
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 Identifiers: Other: 11756682
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.012605299
ISSN: 0027-8424 (Print)0027-8424 (Linking)
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Title: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 99 (1) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 467 - 72 Identifier: -