NMDA Induces Protein Kinase C Translocation in Guinea Pig Cerebral Synaptoneurosomes.

1 January 1991

journal article
Published by Elsevier in The Japanese Journal of Pharmacology

Vol. 56 (3) , 287-296
https://doi.org/10.1254/jjp.56.287

Abstract

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced translocation of protein kinase C from the cytosol to membrane fractions was examined by the [3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu) binding method in guinea pig cerebral synaptoneurosomes. Pretreatment of synaptoneurosomes with NMDA, but not that with quisqualate or kainate, induced changes in the distribution of [3H]PDBu binding in the cytosol and membrane fractions in a dose-dependent manner. The NMDA-induced changes of the binding were completely dependent on Ca2+ and inhibited by NMDA receptor antagonists Mg2+, 2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid and ketamine, but not by Zn2+. Glycine slightly potentiated the NMDA-induced changes of [3H]PDBu binding. NMDA stimulated Ca2+ uptake but not the phosphoinositide hydrolysis in the synaptoneurosomes. These results suggest that NMDA enhances Ca2+ influx through receptor-operated Ca2+ channels, increasing intracellular calcium concentration and thereby induces translocation of protein kinase C.

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