PMID- 28890075 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20171106 LR - 20191210 IS - 1090-2430 (Electronic) IS - 0014-4886 (Linking) VI - 298 IP - Pt A DP - 2017 Dec TI - Down-regulation of dorsal striatal alphaCaMKII causes striatum-related cognitive and synaptic disorders. PG - 112-121 LID - S0014-4886(17)30234-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.expneurol.2017.09.004 [doi] AB - Alpha calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (alphaCaMKII) is a serine/threonine protein kinase which is expressed abundantly in dorsal striatum and is highly involved in the corticostriatal synaptic plasticity. Nevertheless, it currently remains unclear whether and how alphaCaMKII plays a in the striatum-related neural disorders. To address the above issue, lentivirus-mediated short hairpin RNA (shRNA) was used to silence the expression of alphaCaMKII gene in the dorsal striatum of mice. As a consequence of down-regulation of dorsal striatal alphaCaMKII expression, we observed defective motor skill learning in accelerating rotarod and response learning in water cross maze. Furthermore, impaired corticostriatal basal transmission and long-term potentiation (LTP), which correlated with the deficits in dorsal striatum-related cognition, were also detected in the alphaCaMKII-shRNA mice. Consistent with the above results, alphaCaMKII-shRNA mice exhibited a remarkable decline in GluA1-Ser831 and GluA1-Ser845 phosphorylation levels of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR), and a decline in the expression levels of N-methyl-d-aspartic acid receptor (NMDAR) subunits NR1, NR2A and NR2B. Taken together, alphaCaMKII down-regulation caused dorsal striatum-related cognitive disorders by inhibiting corticostriatal synaptic plasticity, which resulted from dysfunction of AMPARs and NMDARs. Our findings demonstrate for the first time an important role of alphaCaMKII in striatum-related neural disorders and provide further evidence for the proposition that corticostriatal LTP underlies aspects of dorsal striatum-related cognition. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Wang, Qi AU - Wang Q AD - Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. FAU - Yin, Pengcheng AU - Yin P AD - Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. FAU - Yu, Bin AU - Yu B AD - Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. FAU - Zhao, Zheng AU - Zhao Z AD - Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. FAU - Richter-Levin, Gal AU - Richter-Levin G AD - "Sagol" Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel. FAU - Yu, Lu AU - Yu L AD - Department of Chinese Internal Medicine, Putuo Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200062, China. FAU - Cao, Xiaohua AU - Cao X AD - Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, MOE & STCSM, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. Electronic address: xhcao@brain.ecnu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170908 PL - United States TA - Exp Neurol JT - Experimental neurology JID - 0370712 RN - 0 (CaMKII inhibitor AIP) RN - 0 (Calcium-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Camk2n1 protein, rat) RN - 0 (Carrier Proteins) RN - 0 (Peptides) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Calcium-Binding Proteins MH - Carrier Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism MH - Cognition Disorders/*metabolism MH - Corpus Striatum/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Down-Regulation/drug effects/*physiology MH - Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects/physiology MH - Male MH - Maze Learning/drug effects/physiology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Neuronal Plasticity/drug effects/physiology MH - Organ Culture Techniques MH - Peptides/pharmacology MH - Synapses/drug effects/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - AMPAR OT - Long term potentiation OT - NMDAR OT - Neural disorders OT - Striatum OT - alphaCaMKII EDAT- 2017/09/12 06:00 MHDA- 2017/11/07 06:00 CRDT- 2017/09/12 06:00 PHST- 2017/03/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/08/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/09/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/11/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/12 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0014-4886(17)30234-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.expneurol.2017.09.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Exp Neurol. 2017 Dec;298(Pt A):112-121. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2017.09.004. Epub 2017 Sep 8.