KMID : 0624620130460020103
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BMB Reports 2013 Volume.46 No. 2 p.103 ~ p.106
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Elevated RalA activity in the hippocampus of PI3K¥ã knock-out mice lacking NMDAR-dependent long-term depression
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Sim Su-Eon
Lee Hye-Ryeon Kim Jae-Ick Choi Sun-Lim Bakes Joseph Jang Deok-Jin Lee Kyung-Min Han Ki-Hoon Kim Eun-Joon Kaang Bong-Kiun
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Abstract
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Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) play key roles in synaptic plasticity and cognitive functions in the brain. We recently found that genetic deletion of PI3K¥ã, the only known member of class IB PI3Ks, results in impaired N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-dependent long-term depression(NMDAR-LTD) in the hippocampus. The activity of RalA, a small GTP-binding protein, increases following NMDAR-LTD inducing stimuli, and this increase in RalA activity is essential for inducing NMDAR-LTD. We found that RalA activity increased significantly in PI3K¥ã knockout mice. Furthermore, NMDAR-LTD-inducing stimuli did not increase RalA activity in PI3K¥ã knockoutmice. These results suggest that constitutively increased RalA activity occludes further increases in RalA activity during induction of LTD, causing impaired NMDAR-LTD. We propose that PI3K¥ã regulates the activity of RalA, which is one of the molecular mechanisms inducingNMDAR dependent LTD.
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KEYWORD
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Hippocampus, NMDAR-LTD, PI3K¥ã, RalA, Synaptic plasticity
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