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Resident Calmodulin Primes NMDA Receptors for Ca2+-Dependent Inactivation.


ABSTRACT: N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are glutamate- and glycine-gated channels that flux Na+ and Ca2+ into postsynaptic neurons during synaptic transmission. The resulting intracellular Ca2+ transient is essential to physiological and pathological processes related to synaptic development, plasticity, and apoptosis. It also engages calmodulin (CaM) to reduce subsequent NMDA receptor activity in a process known as Ca2+-dependent inactivation (CDI). Here, we used whole-cell electrophysiology to measure CDI and computational modeling to dissect the sequence of events that underlies it. With these approaches, we estimate that CaM senses NMDA receptor Ca2+ influx at ?9 nm from the channel pore. Further, when we controlled the frequency of Ca2+ influx through individual channels, we found that a kinetic model where apoCaM associates with channels before their activation best predicts the measured CDI. These results provide, to our knowledge, novel functional evidence for CaM preassociation to NMDA receptors in living cells. This particular mechanism for autoinhibitory feedback reveals strategies and challenges for Ca2+ regulation in neurons during physiological synaptic activity and disease.

SUBMITTER: Iacobucci GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5700250 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Resident Calmodulin Primes NMDA Receptors for Ca<sup>2+</sup>-Dependent Inactivation.

Iacobucci Gary J GJ   Popescu Gabriela K GK  

Biophysical journal 20170714 10


N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are glutamate- and glycine-gated channels that flux Na<sup>+</sup> and Ca<sup>2+</sup> into postsynaptic neurons during synaptic transmission. The resulting intracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> transient is essential to physiological and pathological processes related to synaptic development, plasticity, and apoptosis. It also engages calmodulin (CaM) to reduce subsequent NMDA receptor activity in a process known as Ca<sup>2+</sup>-dependent inactivation (CDI). Her  ...[more]

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