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Science Signaling | 2012

Receptor-Selective Diffusion Barrier Enhances Sensitivity of Astrocytic Processes to Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Stimulation

Misa Arizono; Hiroko Bannai; Kyoko Nakamura; Fumihiro Niwa; Masahiro Enomoto; Toru Matsu-ura; Akitoshi Miyamoto; Mark W. Sherwood; Takeshi Nakamura; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

An mGluR5-selective diffusion barrier enriches mGluR5 in astrocytic processes, enabling compartmentalized calcium signaling. Keeping Calcium Signals in the Processes Although astrocytes, the most numerous form of glial cell in the brain, are electrically inexcitable, their ability to release chemical messengers and respond to such messengers with propagated calcium signals allows them to participate actively in the regulation of local blood flow and of synaptic efficacy. Here, Arizono et al. expressed a genetically encoded calcium indicator in neuron-astrocyte cocultures and hippocampal slices and found that, compared to the soma, astrocyte processes showed enhanced calcium responses to stimulation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR). The enhanced calcium response observed in processes resulted from an increased density of mGluRs, rather than from differences in the distribution or sensitivity of the calcium release machinery. Analysis of the movement of single mGluR5s revealed a membrane barrier that selectively blocked the movement of mGluR5 between astrocyte somata and their processes. Noting that various neurological disorders are associated with abnormal calcium signaling in astrocytes, the authors speculate that the existence of this barrier—and thereby of compartmentalized calcium signals—could allow individual processes to regulate associated partners (synapses or blood vessels) independently, in the absence of a somatic calcium signal. Metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR)–dependent calcium ion (Ca2+) signaling in astrocytic processes regulates synaptic transmission and local blood flow essential for brain function. However, because of difficulties in imaging astrocytic processes, the subcellular spatial organization of mGluR-dependent Ca2+ signaling is not well characterized and its regulatory mechanism remains unclear. Using genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators, we showed that despite global stimulation by an mGluR agonist, astrocyte processes intrinsically exhibited a marked enrichment of Ca2+ responses. Immunocytochemistry indicated that these polarized Ca2+ responses could be attributed to increased density of surface mGluR5 on processes relative to the soma. Single-particle tracking of surface mGluR5 dynamics revealed a membrane barrier that blocked the movement of mGluR5 between the processes and the soma. Overexpression of mGluR or expression of its carboxyl terminus enabled diffusion of mGluR5 between the soma and the processes, disrupting the polarization of mGluR5 and of mGluR-dependent Ca2+ signaling. Together, our results demonstrate an mGluR5-selective diffusion barrier between processes and soma that compartmentalized mGluR Ca2+ signaling in astrocytes and may allow control of synaptic and vascular activity in specific subcellular domains.


PLOS ONE | 2012

Gephyrin-Independent GABAAR Mobility and Clustering during Plasticity

Fumihiro Niwa; Hiroko Bannai; Misa Arizono; Kazumi Fukatsu; Antoine Triller; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

The activity-dependent modulation of GABA-A receptor (GABAAR) clustering at synapses controls inhibitory synaptic transmission. Several lines of evidence suggest that gephyrin, an inhibitory synaptic scaffold protein, is a critical factor in the regulation of GABAAR clustering during inhibitory synaptic plasticity induced by neuronal excitation. In this study, we tested this hypothesis by studying relative gephyrin dynamics and GABAAR declustering during excitatory activity. Surprisingly, we found that gephyrin dispersal is not essential for GABAAR declustering during excitatory activity. In cultured hippocampal neurons, quantitative immunocytochemistry showed that the dispersal of synaptic GABAARs accompanied with neuronal excitation evoked by 4-aminopyridine (4AP) or N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) precedes that of gephyrin. Single-particle tracking of quantum dot labeled-GABAARs revealed that excitation-induced enhancement of GABAAR lateral mobility also occurred before the shrinkage of gephyrin clusters. Physical inhibition of GABAAR lateral diffusion on the cell surface and inhibition of a Ca2+ dependent phosphatase, calcineurin, completely eliminated the 4AP-induced decrease in gephyrin cluster size, but not the NMDA-induced decrease in cluster size, suggesting the existence of two different mechanisms of gephyrin declustering during activity-dependent plasticity, a GABAAR-dependent regulatory mechanism and a GABAAR-independent one. Our results also indicate that GABAAR mobility and clustering after sustained excitatory activity is independent of gephyrin.


Cell Reports | 2015

Bidirectional Control of Synaptic GABAAR Clustering by Glutamate and Calcium

Hiroko Bannai; Fumihiro Niwa; Mark W. Sherwood; Amulya Nidhi Shrivastava; Misa Arizono; Akitoshi Miyamoto; Kotomi Sugiura; Sabine Lévi; Antoine Triller; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

Summary GABAergic synaptic transmission regulates brain function by establishing the appropriate excitation-inhibition (E/I) balance in neural circuits. The structure and function of GABAergic synapses are sensitive to destabilization by impinging neurotransmitters. However, signaling mechanisms that promote the restorative homeostatic stabilization of GABAergic synapses remain unknown. Here, by quantum dot single-particle tracking, we characterize a signaling pathway that promotes the stability of GABAA receptor (GABAAR) postsynaptic organization. Slow metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling activates IP3 receptor-dependent calcium release and protein kinase C to promote GABAAR clustering and GABAergic transmission. This GABAAR stabilization pathway counteracts the rapid cluster dispersion caused by glutamate-driven NMDA receptor-dependent calcium influx and calcineurin dephosphorylation, including in conditions of pathological glutamate toxicity. These findings show that glutamate activates distinct receptors and spatiotemporal patterns of calcium signaling for opposing control of GABAergic synapses.


Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2017

Astroglial Ca 2+ signaling is generated by the coordination of IP 3 R and store-operated Ca 2+ channels

Shigeo Sakuragi; Fumihiro Niwa; Yoichi Oda; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba; Hiroko Bannai

Astrocytes play key roles in the central nervous system and regulate local blood flow and synaptic transmission via intracellular calcium (Ca2+) signaling. Astrocytic Ca2+ signals are generated by multiple pathways: Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via the inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) and Ca2+ influx through various Ca2+ channels on the plasma membrane. However, the Ca2+ channels involved in astrocytic Ca2+ homeostasis or signaling have not been fully characterized. Here, we demonstrate that spontaneous astrocytic Ca2+ transients in cultured hippocampal astrocytes were induced by cooperation between the Ca2+ release from the ER and the Ca2+ influx through store-operated calcium channels (SOCCs) on the plasma membrane. Ca2+ imaging with plasma membrane targeted GCaMP6f revealed that spontaneous astroglial Ca2+ transients were impaired by pharmacological blockade of not only Ca2+ release through IP3Rs, but also Ca2+ influx through SOCCs. Loss of SOCC activity resulted in the depletion of ER Ca2+, suggesting that SOCCs are activated without store depletion in hippocampal astrocytes. Our findings indicate that sustained SOCC activity, together with that of the sarco-endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase, contribute to the maintenance of astrocytic Ca2+ store levels, ultimately enabling astrocytic Ca2+ signaling.


Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2016

Dissection of local Ca(2+) signals inside cytosol by ER-targeted Ca(2+) indicator.

Fumihiro Niwa; Shigeo Sakuragi; Ayana Kobayashi; Shin Takagi; Yoichi Oda; Hiroko Bannai; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba


PLOS ONE | 2012

Correction: Gephyrin-Independent GABAAR Mobility and Clustering during Plasticity.

Fumihiro Niwa; Hiroko Bannai; Misa Arizono; Kazumi Fukatsu; Antoine Triller; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba


Folia Pharmacologica Japonica | 2016

[Stabilization of GABAAR synaptic structure by IP3-induced calcium release].

Fumihiro Niwa; Hiroko Bannai; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba


生物物理 | 2014

1P225 カルシウムシグナルによるシナプス構造の競合的制御(15.神経・感覚,ポスター,第52回日本生物物理学会年会(2014年度))

Fumihiro Niwa; Hiroko Bannai; Antoine Triller; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba


Seibutsu Butsuri | 2014

1P225 Competitive control of synaptic structure by calcium signaling(15. Neuroscience & Sensory systems,Poster,The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan(BSJ2014))

Fumihiro Niwa; Hiroko Bannai; Antoine Triller; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba


Seibutsu Butsuri | 2014

3SDA-01 Watch the "membrane protein behavior" to know the "intracellular signaling pathway"(Cutting-Edge Optical Imaging Approaches and Raman Micro-Spectroscopy Pioneering Bio-Physics,Symposium,The 52th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan(BSJ2014))

Hiroko Bannai; Fumihiro Niwa; Antoine Triller; Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

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Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

RIKEN Brain Science Institute

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Misa Arizono

RIKEN Brain Science Institute

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Antoine Triller

École Normale Supérieure

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Akitoshi Miyamoto

RIKEN Brain Science Institute

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Mark W. Sherwood

RIKEN Brain Science Institute

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Kotomi Sugiura

RIKEN Brain Science Institute

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