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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6432
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-7-23
pubmed:abstractText
The NMDA (N-methyl D-aspartate) receptors in the brain play a critical role in synaptic plasticity, synaptogenesis and excitotoxicity. Molecular cloning has demonstrated that NMDA receptors consist of several homologous subunits (NMDAR1, 2A-2D). A variety of studies have suggested that protein phosphorylation of NMDA receptors may regulate their function and play a role in many forms of synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation. We have examined the phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor subunit NMDAR1 (NR1) by protein kinase C (PKC) in cells transiently expressing recombinant NR1 and in primary cultures of cortical neurons. PKC phosphorylation occurs on several distinct sites on the NR1 subunit. Most of these sites are contained within a single alternatively spliced exon in the C-terminal domain, which has previously been proposed to be on the extracellular side of the membrane. These results demonstrate that alternative splicing of the NR1 messenger RNA regulates its phosphorylation by PKC, and that mRNA splicing is a novel mechanism for regulating the sensitivity of glutamate receptors to protein phosphorylation. These results also provide evidence that the C-terminal domain of the NR1 protein is located intracellularly, suggesting that the proposed transmembrane topology model for glutamate receptors may be incorrect.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
364
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
70-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Alternative Splicing, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-DNA, Single-Stranded, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8316301-Transfection
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Regulation of NMDA receptor phosphorylation by alternative splicing of the C-terminal domain.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't