Tyrosine Phosphatases Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking during Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Mediated Long-Term Depression

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience 2006-03, Vol.26 (9), p.2544-2554
• Main Authors: Moult, Peter R, Gladding, Clare M, Sanderson, Thomas M, Fitzjohn, Stephen M, Bashir, Zafar I, Molnar, Elek, Collingridge, Graham L
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Action Potentials - drug effects; Action Potentials - physiology; Analysis of Variance; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Blotting, Western - methods; Cells, Cultured; Drug Interactions; Electric Stimulation - methods; Enzyme Inhibitors - pharmacology; Female; Hippocampus - cytology; Immunohistochemistry - methods; Immunoprecipitation - methods; In Vitro Techniques; Long-Term Synaptic Depression - physiology; Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol - analogs & derivatives; Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol - pharmacology; N-Methylaspartate - pharmacology; Neurons - drug effects; Neurons - physiology; Neurons - radiation effects; Patch-Clamp Techniques - methods; Phosphorylation; Protein Transport; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases - physiology; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Receptors, AMPA - metabolism; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate - physiology
• ISSN: 0270-6474; 1529-2401
• DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4322-05.2006

Two forms of long-term depression (LTD), triggered by activation of NMDA receptors (NMDARs) and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), respectively, can be induced at CA1 synapses in the hippocampus. Compared with NMDAR-LTD, relatively little is known about mGluR-LTD. Here, we show that protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) inhibitors, orthovanadate and phenylarsine oxide, selectively block mGluR-LTD induced by application of the group I mGluR agonist (RS)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG-LTD), because NMDAR-LTD is unaffected by these inhibitors. Furthermore, DHPG-LTD measured using whole-cell recording is similarly blocked by either bath-applied or patch-loaded PTP inhibitors. These inhibitors also block the changes in paired-pulse facilitation and coefficient of variation that are associated with the expression of DHPG-LTD. DHPG treatment of hippocampal slices was associated with a decrease in the level of tyrosine phosphorylation of GluR2 AMPA receptor (AMPAR) subunits, an effect blocked by orthovanadate. Finally, in dissociated hippocampal neurons, orthovanadate blocked the ability of DHPG to reduce the number of AMPA receptor clusters on the surface of dendrites. Again, the effects of PTP blockade were selective, because NMDA-induced decreases in surface AMPAR clusters was unaffected by orthovanadate. Together, these data suggest that activation of postsynaptic PTP results in tyrosine dephosphorylation of AMPARs and their removal from the synapse.