Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Activation by Backpropagating Action Potentials Downregulates NMDAR Function

Theis, Anne-Kathrin and Rózsa, Balázs and Katona, Gergely and Schmitz, Dietmar and Johenning, Friedrich W. (2018) Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Activation by Backpropagating Action Potentials Downregulates NMDAR Function. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 12. ISSN 1662-5102

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Abstract

The majority of excitatory synapses are located on dendritic spines of cortical glutamatergic neurons. In spines, compartmentalized Ca2+ signals transduce electrical activity into specific long-term biochemical and structural changes. Action potentials (APs) propagate back into the dendritic tree and activate voltage gated Ca2+ channels (VGCCs). For spines, this global mode of spine Ca2+ signaling is a direct biochemical feedback of suprathreshold neuronal activity. We previously demonstrated that backpropagating action potentials (bAPs) result in long-term enhancement of spine VGCCs. This activity-dependent VGCC plasticity results in a large interspine variability of VGCC Ca2+ influx. Here, we investigate how spine VGCCs affect glutamatergic synaptic transmission. We combined electrophysiology, two-photon Ca2+ imaging and two-photon glutamate uncaging in acute brain slices from rats. T- and R-type VGCCs were the dominant depolarization-associated Ca2+conductances in dendritic spines of excitatory layer 2 neurons and do not affect synaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) measured at the soma. Using two-photon glutamate uncaging, we compared the properties of glutamatergic synapses of single spines that express different levels of VGCCs. While VGCCs contributed to EPSP mediated Ca2+ influx, the amount of EPSP mediated Ca2+ influx is not determined by spine VGCC expression. On a longer timescale, the activation of VGCCs by bAP bursts results in downregulation of spine NMDAR function.

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Subjects: STM Digital Library > Medical Science
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Date Deposited: 02 Jun 2023 05:11
Last Modified: 08 Jun 2024 08:04
URI: http://archive.scholarstm.com/id/eprint/1316

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