Influence of immobilization stress on the expression and phosphatase activity of protein phosphatase 2A in the rat brain
| Autor: | Ki-ichiro Kawano, Kazuhide Tanaka, Nobumasa Kato, Jun Takahashi, Koichiro Fujimaki, Shigeru Morinobu, Shigeto Yamawaki, Masako Ohkawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Time Factors Protein subunit Immunoblotting Phosphatase Hippocampus Biology Rats Sprague-Dawley Serine Immobilization Phosphoserine Stress Physiological Catalytic Domain Gene expression Phosphoprotein Phosphatases Animals Protein Phosphatase 2 Protein kinase A Biological Psychiatry Kinase Protein phosphatase 2 Immunohistochemistry Molecular biology Frontal Lobe Rats Phosphothreonine |
| Zdroj: | Biological Psychiatry. 54:1060-1066 |
| ISSN: | 0006-3223 |
| Popis: | Background Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is a major kinase phosphatase that plays an important role in regulating the activities of protein kinase cascades. It has been revealed that stress changes neuronal gene expression by activating these cascades. We examined the expression of the catalytic subunit C and serine and threonine phosphatase activity of PP2A in the rat frontal cortex and hippocampus following various immobilization stress paradigms. Methods Immunoblot and immunohistochemical analyses were performed to examine the expression of PP2A. The level of phosphatase activity of PP2A was determined as the amount of free phosphate generated from a synthetic phosphopeptide. Results Immunoblot analysis revealed no significant change in the level of PP2A immunoreactivity in response to either a single or repeated stress. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that neither a single nor repeated stress changed PP2A immunoreactivity in the hippocampus; however, the levels of serine and threonine phosphatase activity in the frontal cortex and hippocampus were significantly upregulated in response to a single or repeated stress. Conclusions These results demonstrated that both a single and repeated immobilization stress upregulated the activity of PP2A in the rat brain, suggesting that PP2A may be involved, at least in part, in the downregulation of protein kinase activation induced by stress. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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