PMID- 20505103 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100615 LR - 20211020 IS - 1529-2401 (Electronic) IS - 0270-6474 (Print) IS - 0270-6474 (Linking) VI - 30 IP - 21 DP - 2010 May 26 TI - Activity-dependent augmentation of spontaneous neurotransmission during endoplasmic reticulum stress. PG - 7358-68 LID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5358-09.2010 [doi] AB - The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an essential cellular compartment responsible for Ca(2+) sequestration, signaling, protein translation, folding as well as transport. Several acute and chronic disease conditions impair ER function leading to ER stress. To study the impact of ER stress on synaptic transmission we applied tunicamycin (TM) or thapsigargin (TG) to hippocampal neurons, which triggered sustained elevation of key ER stress markers. We monitored evoked and spontaneous neurotransmission during 4 d of TM or TG treatment and detected only a 20% increase in paired pulse depression suggesting an increase in neurotransmitter release probability. However, the treatments did not significantly affect the number of active synapses or the size of the total recycling vesicle pool as measured by uptake and release of styryl dye FM1-43. In contrast, under the same conditions, we observed a dramatic fourfold increase in spontaneous excitatory transmission, which could be reversed by chronic treatment with the NMDA receptor blocker AP-5 or by treatment with salubrinal, a selective inhibitor of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2alpha) dephosphorylation. Furthermore, ER stress caused NMDA receptor-dependent suppression of eukaryotic elongation factor-2 (eEF2) phosphorylation thus reversing downstream signaling mediated by spontaneous release. Together, these findings suggest that chronic ER stress augments spontaneous excitatory neurotransmission and reverses its downstream signaling in a NMDA receptor-dependent manner, which may contribute to neuronal circuitry abnormalities that precede synapse degeneration in several neurological disorders. FAU - Nosyreva, Elena AU - Nosyreva E AD - Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9111, USA. FAU - Kavalali, Ege T AU - Kavalali ET LA - eng GR - R01 MH066198/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH068437/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH066198-08/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH066198-07/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH068437-05/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - United States TA - J Neurosci JT - The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience JID - 8102140 RN - 0 (DNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Ddit3 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Elf2 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Enzyme Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists) RN - 0 (Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists) RN - 0 (FM1 43) RN - 0 (GABA Antagonists) RN - 0 (Pyridinium Compounds) RN - 0 (Quaternary Ammonium Compounds) RN - 0 (Sodium Channel Blockers) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 11089-65-9 (Tunicamycin) RN - 124-87-8 (Picrotoxin) RN - 147336-12-7 (Transcription Factor CHOP) RN - 4368-28-9 (Tetrodotoxin) RN - 67526-95-8 (Thapsigargin) RN - 6OTE87SCCW (6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione) RN - 76726-92-6 (2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate/pharmacology MH - 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione/pharmacology MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - Calcium/metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism MH - Endoplasmic Reticulum/*drug effects MH - Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists/pharmacology MH - Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology MH - GABA Antagonists/pharmacology MH - Hippocampus/cytology MH - Neurons/drug effects/*ultrastructure MH - Patch-Clamp Techniques/methods MH - Phosphorylation MH - Picrotoxin/pharmacology MH - Pyridinium Compounds/metabolism MH - Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Sodium Channel Blockers/pharmacology MH - Synaptic Transmission/drug effects/*physiology MH - Tetrodotoxin/pharmacology MH - Thapsigargin/pharmacology MH - Transcription Factor CHOP/metabolism MH - Transcription Factors/metabolism MH - Tunicamycin/pharmacology PMC - PMC2892630 MID - NIHMS208424 EDAT- 2010/05/28 06:00 MHDA- 2010/06/16 06:00 PMCR- 2010/11/26 CRDT- 2010/05/28 06:00 PHST- 2010/05/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/05/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/06/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2010/11/26 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 30/21/7358 [pii] AID - 3600332 [pii] AID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5358-09.2010 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Neurosci. 2010 May 26;30(21):7358-68. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5358-09.2010.