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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 6:29-42, 2007.
© 2007 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.





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From the Departments of
Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry and
Human Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029
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-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors are thought to undergo clathrin-mediated endocytosis, we examined the effect of morphine administration on the association of the AMPA receptor subunit, GluR1, with clathrin. We found a substantial decrease in the levels of GluR1 associated with clathrin. Taken together, these results suggest that, by causing a redistribution of endocytic proteins at the synapse, morphine modulates synaptic plasticity at hippocampal glutamatergic synapses.
Recent studies have applied genomics and proteomics approaches to identify changes in gene and protein expression in the brain that may be involved in opiate addiction (912). A number of reports have shown that repeated morphine administration alters the expression of proteins involved in receptor endocytosis, neurotransmission, energy metabolism, and protein degradation (11, 1315). These effects could contribute to the morphine-induced neuronal changes that persist for a long time following the cessation of drug exposure (16). However, molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying these long lasting changes are still not fully understood.
Because of the complexity of the central nervous system, fractionation techniques that allow the enrichment of lower abundance proteins are usually necessary to achieve a better characterization of the cellular proteome. Within the synapse, the postsynaptic site contains a high concentration of proteins, including receptors and their intracellular signaling components that receive and transduce synaptic information. This postsynaptic electron-dense structure, named the postsynaptic density (PSD),1 plays an important role in synaptic regulation and plasticity. Although considerable efforts have been put toward identifying the protein components of this fraction (1720), none have focused on examining changes in PSD proteins in the hippocampus following drug administration.
In this study, we examined the changes in expression levels of PSD-associated proteins in the mouse hippocampus upon repeated administration of morphine using quantitative proteomics. To measure the relative changes in the levels of proteins, we used ICAT followed by tandem mass spectrometric (LC-MS/MS) analysis. We found that the levels of 10 proteins were altered in both forward and reverse labeling experiments. Next we focused on clathrin heavy chain because it showed the largest increase. Interestingly this increase was found to be local at the PSD, and this was confirmed by Western blotting and electron microscopy. We also found that levels of adaptor protein-2
1 (AP-2) and dynamin were increased locally at the PSD after morphine treatment. Because the clathrin·dynamin·AP-2 complex modulates the level of cell surface receptors including
-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) at glutamatergic synapses (21), we investigated the effect of morphine on the association of the AMPA receptor subunit, GluR1, with clathrin. Morphine treatment led to a decrease in the levels of clathrin-associated GluR1, suggesting that this treatment may alter clathrin-mediated AMPA receptor trafficking. Altogether these studies propose a role for morphine in regulating endocytic proteins at the hippocampal PSD, which in turn would modulate synaptic transmission and plasticity at hippocampal synapses.
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Subcellular Fractionation and PSD Isolation
The PSD fraction was isolated essentially as described previously (20). For each fractionation, hippocampi from five saline-treated or five morphine-treated mice were combined and homogenized in 3 ml of 0.32 M sucrose, 0.1 mM CaCl2 containing protease (0.1 mM PMSF, 1 µg/ml aprotinin, 1 µg/ml leupeptin, 1 mM benzamidine, and 0.1 mM pepstatin) and phosphatase inhibitors (1 mM NaF and 1 mM ß-glycerophosphate) from Sigma. The homogenate was brought to a final concentration of 1.25 M sucrose by adding 2 M sucrose and 0.1 mM CaCl2. The homogenate was then placed in an ultracentrifuge tube, overlaid with 1 M sucrose, and subjected to centrifugation at 100,000 x g for 3 h at 4 °C. The synaptosomal fraction was collected at the 1.25 M/1 M sucrose interface. To obtain the synaptic junctions, the synaptosomal fraction was diluted with 20 mM Tris-Cl, pH 6, 0.1 mM CaCl2 containing 1% Triton X-100 (TX-100), mixed for 20 min at 4 °C, and centrifuged at 40,000 x g for 20 min at 4 °C. The pellet containing the isolated synaptic junctions was collected. To separate presynaptic proteins from the PSD, the pellet was resuspended in 20 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8, 1% TX-100, 0.1 mM CaCl2. The mixture was again mixed for 20 min at 4 °C and centrifuged at 40,000 x g for 20 min at 4 °C. The insoluble pellet containing the PSD fraction was collected and stored at 80 °C until use.
ICAT Labeling and Peptide Separation
ICAT labeling was performed according to the manufacturers guidelines (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). In brief, PSD fractions were solubilized in 0.1% SDS, 200 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.3. To reduce disulfide bonds, 5 mM tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine was added, and samples were boiled for 10 min. After cooling the samples to room temperature, samples from saline-treated animals were labeled with the light (12C) ICAT reagent and from morphine-treated animals were labeled with the heavy (13C) reagent for 2 h at 37 °C (forward labeling). To avoid variability during the labeling procedure, reverse labeling was also performed with a separate set of PSD fractions obtained from an independent experiment. In this case, saline samples were labeled with the heavy (13C) reagent, and morphine samples were labeled with the light (12C) reagent. Following incubation with the ICAT reagent, saline and morphine samples were combined and digested overnight with trypsin at 37 °C. Resulting peptides were separated by cation-exchange chromatography using a POROS 50 HS (4.0 x 15-mm) cation-exchange column. Peptides were eluted with 5 mM KH2PO4, pH 3, 25% acetonitrile (SCX A buffer) using a step gradient (from 40 to 600 mM KCl in SCX A buffer) to collect six fractions. The labeled peptides from each fraction were isolated using an avidin column (4.0 x 15 mm) according to the manufacturers instructions. After evaporation of the samples, the biotin tag was removed from the ICAT-labeled peptides by incubation with a cleaving reagent (provided by the manufacturer) for 2 h at 37 °C, and resulting peptides were dried and stored at 80 °C until use.
Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
For peptide identification by MS/MS, the peptides were dissolved in 3050 µl of HPLC sample solvents containing water:methanol:acetic acid:trifluoroacetic acid (70:30:0.5:0.01, v/v/v/v). Micro-HPLC-MS/MS analysis was conducted on a QSTAR XL mass spectrometer (Applied Biosystems) coupled with an on-line MicroPro-HPLC system (Eldex Laboratories, Napa, CA). 3050 µl of tryptic peptide solution were injected into a Magic C18 column (0.2 x 150 mm, 5 µm, 200 Å, Michrom BioResources, Auburn, CA) that had previously been equilibrated with 70% solvent A (0.5% acetic acid and 0.01% trifluoroacetic acid in water:methanol (95:5, v/v) and 30% solvent B (0.5% acetic acid and 0.01% trifluoroacetic acid in methanol:water (95:5, v/v)). Peptides were separated and eluted from the HPLC column with a linear gradient of 3070% solvent B in 100 min at a flow rate of 2.0 µl/min. The eluted peptides were sprayed directly into the QSTAR XL mass spectrometer (2.9 kV). The QSTAR XL mass spectrometer was operated in a positive ion mode. The information-dependent acquisition method had a duty cycle of 9 s, selecting the three most intense ions between 300 and 2000 m/z with charge states of 25 and that exceeded five counts from the 1-s TOF-MS scan. Rolling collision energies were used to facilitate CID. Any ion within 100 ppm of a former target ion was excluded for 60 s to eliminate repeated fragmentation of the same peptide species.
ICAT Data Processing
Data acquired from the ICAT information dependent acquisition experiments were analyzed by Pro ICAT software version 1.0 Service Packs 2 and 3 (Applied Biosystems). Mass tolerances of 0.15 and 0.1 Da for parent ion spectra and fragment ion spectra, respectively, were used. The measured molecular masses of parent peptides and their MS/MS data were used to search the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) nonredundant DNA/protein sequence database (nr), which was specifically formatted for use with Pro ICAT, with a maximum of one missed cleavage specified. The identification algorithms of Pro ICAT software follow routines typical to those generally used for peptide fingerprinting (23) where the patterns of sequence ions derived from MS/MS peptide fragmentation are correlated with a sequence database in accordance with the mass and specified mass tolerance of the precursor ion (24). The quality of data interpretation is described by the protein confidence, which measures how distant the identifications are from the next likely peptide and protein candidate. Protein confidence is expressed in a unit called ProtScore, which is a transformation of percent confidence. To convert percent confidence to ProtScore, the following formula is used: ProtScore = log(1 (percent confidence)/100).
This formula also determines the contribution made by a single peptide identification to the ProtScore. The maximal contribution of any peptide is limited. Peptides are considered to have no higher confidence than 99.00%. This means that each peptide can contribute no more than 2.0 to the ProtScore. This limitation is necessary due to the limit in accuracy in reporting peptide confidence. In this study protein identifications were made based on ProtScore values
2, representing protein confidence greater than 99%.
During data processing, Pro ICAT identifies the ICAT pairs and determines the form of the label. Analysis of the isotope clusters from the light and heavy forms of the peptides only considers those peaks with corresponding peaks in the other cluster during the ICAT ratio calculation. The ICAT ratios are calculated from the relative areas of the extracted precursor ion spectra. The protein ICAT ratios are calculated from the combination of the constituent peptides where each charge state is treated separately.
Immunoblotting
For immunoblotting, equal amounts of total protein from fractions obtained from morphine- or saline-treated animals were resolved by 7.5% SDS-PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (Scheicher & Schuell) by electroblotting. Membranes were incubated with selective antibodies: clathrin heavy chain (1:3,000, BD Biosciences), Na+/K+-ATPase
3 (1:2,000, Affinity Reagents, Golden, CO), 14-3-3
(1:10,000, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA), dynamin I (1:10,000, BD Biosciences), and the
subunit of AP-2 (1:2,000, BD Biosciences). After incubating with secondary antibody (1:2,000 to 1:100,000 anti-mouse, Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, 1:1,000 to 1:2,000 anti-rabbit, Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK) membranes were incubated with ECL detection reagents (Pierce, Rockford, IL) and exposed to ECL Hyperfilm (Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK). Blots were reprobed with tubulin antibody (1:50,000, Sigma, St. Louis, MO) to ensure equal loading and transfer. Band densities were determined using NIH ImageJ Software. Quantification was performed by measuring the intensity of the band with protein specific antibodies and comparing it to that of tubulin.
Immunocytochemistry for Electron Microscopy
Animals were sacrificed 12 h following the last drug injection. Deeply anesthetized mice were perfused with saline followed with cold fixative, containing 4% paraformaldehyde, 0.1% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (PB, pH 7.4). Brains were removed and postfixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 2 h. 250 µm thick coronal Vibratome slices of hippocampal formation were treated successively with 0.5% osmium tetroxide, 1% uranyl acetate, dehydrated, and embedded in epoxy resin. The embedded slices were trimmed to the CA1 region of hippocampal stratum radiatum. Thin sections were mounted onto nickel grids, etched and immunostained with an anti-clathrin antibody (1:10, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA) visualized with 10 nm gold-labeled anti-mouse secondary (EMS, Fort Washington, PA). Sections were examined with a Hitachi 7000 electron microscope. For quantitation, 2528 fields from each animal were selected so as to contain well oriented synaptic clefts and digital images were recorded at 80,000 to 100,000 magnification. Enumeration of grains over each postsynaptic profile was performed on all images by an observer blinded to specimen identity, by counting particles at the postsynaptic density (1) as well as over the remainder of each post-synaptic profile (2). The ratio of (1) to the total (1 + 2) was computed for each profile. Presynaptic labeling was ignored in this analysis.
Two-dimensional Gel Electrophoresis
For two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) total homogenate and PSD hippocampal fractions from saline- and morphine-treated animals were diluted in rehydration solution, containing 7 M urea, 2 M thiourea, 4% CHAPS (3-[3-cholamidopropyl) dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfate), and 1% DTT (1,4-dithioerythritol). IPG buffer (pH 310, Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK) and DeStreak reagent (Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK) was added to the mixture, and that was applied onto 7 cm broad IPG strips (pH 310). Following rehydration for 12 h, isoelectrofocusing (IEF) was carried out on an Ettan IPGPhor II (Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK) at 20 °C according to the following voltage-time program: 500 V for 30min, 1000 V for 30 min, and 5000V for 1 h. IPG strips were then equilibrated in 1% DTT, following by 4% iodoacetamide. The second dimension was carried out in 10% SDS-PAGE gels. The gels were then transferred to nitrocellulose membrane by electroblotting. Immunoblotting was performed using selective antibodies to clathrin heavy chain (1:3,000, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA), dynamin I (1:10,000, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA), the
subunit of AP-2 (1:2,000, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA), and tubulin (1:2,000, Sigma, St. Louis, MO). After incubating with secondary antibody (1:4,000 to 1:20,000 anti-mouse, Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) membranes were incubated with ECL detection reagents (Pierce, Rockford, IL) and exposed to ECL Hyperfilm (Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK).
Immunoprecipitation from Hippocampal Synaptic Fractions
For immunoprecipitation studies synaptosomal fractions from morphine or saline treated animals were resuspended in IP buffer (100 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 10 mM NaHPO4, pH 7.2, and 1% TX-100) and incubated on ice for 30 min. An anti-clathrin heavy chain N-terminal antibody (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA) was used to immunoprecipitate clathrin. An anti-GluR1 C-terminal antibody (Chemicon, Temecula, CA) was used to immunoprecipitate GluR1. After overnight incubation at 4 °C with 2 µg (anti-clathrin) or 4 µg (anti-GluR1) of the antibody and prewashed protein A agarose beads, the immunoprecipitates were washed 3 times with IP buffer. Bound proteins were eluted with Laemmli loading buffer containing 2-mercaptoethanol for 30 min at 60 °C, resolved in 7.5% SDS-PAGE gels and immunoblotted with antibodies to clathrin heavy chain, AP-2 (1:1,000 to 1:2,000, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA), PSD-95 (1:10,000, Chemicon, Temecula, CA), Homer (1:500, Chemicon, Temecula, CA) and GluR1 (1:1,000, Chemicon, Temecula, CA) followed by secondary antibodies (1:20,000 to 1:2,000 anti-mouse, Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA; 1:2,000 anti-rabbit, Amersham Biosciences; 1:1,000 anti-rat, Amersham Biosciences). Immunoreactive bands were visualized with ECL reagents (Pierce) on ECL Hyperfilm (Amersham Biosciences).
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) indicating that this fractionation protocol enriches proteins in the PSD.
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3 levels was observed when the studies were carried out by forward labeling (Fig. 1A, left panel), and this ratio was reversed when the labeling was reversed (Fig. 1A, right panel). Fig. 1B shows the MS/MS analysis that identified the 591.85 m/z peak as a heavy ICAT-labeled tryptic peptide CHATILLQGK (where H represents heavy) of Na+/K+-ATPase
3. As a control, we found that the peaks corresponding to tubulin ß5 were not changed in either forward (morphine/saline) or reverse (saline/morphine) labeling (Fig. 1C, left and right panels, respectively).
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(Table II). ICAT analysis also revealed decreases in several proteins, including voltage-dependent anion channel 1, a protein enriched in the PSD that has been shown to be involved in learning and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus (25). Morphine treatment also decreased the levels of glutamate-ammonia ligase and glutamate dehydrogenase 1 (Table II), enzymes that regulate glutamate levels.
Using Western blotting, we verified that the changes in their relative abundance upon morphine treatment were consistent with those observed by ICAT analysis. We found significant increases in levels of clathrin heavy chain, Na+/K+-ATPase
3, and 14-3-3
in the PSD fraction of morphine- as compared with saline-treated animals (Fig. 2). In contrast, tubulin levels showed no changes, consistent with the ICAT analysis data (see Table I and Fig. 1C). Interestingly the levels of these proteins in the total hippocampal homogenate were not altered by morphine. Thus, it appears that there is a local increase of these proteins at the PSD upon morphine treatment.
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We next examined the extent of association of clathrin with PSD-95 and Homer, two components of the PSD. The level of clathrin associated with PSD-95 and Homer was drastically increased upon morphine treatment (Fig. 5A, bottom panels). In contrast, the level of clathrin associated with AP-2 remained unaltered (Fig. 5A, middle panel). These results suggest that besides redistributing endocytic proteins to the PSD morphine treatment leads to the association of clathrin with components of the PSD; this could alter the extent of endocytosis of synaptic proteins including receptors. Because AMPA receptors are thought to undergo clathrin-dependent endocytosis (21), we next investigated the effect of morphine on the association of the GluR1 AMPA receptor subunit with clathrin. The level of clathrin associated with GluR1 was significantly decreased upon morphine treatment (Fig. 5B), although the total level of GluR1 was increased by this treatment (not shown). Taken together, these results show that the selective association of clathrin with endogenous GluR1 is significantly decreased upon morphine treatment.
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We identified components of the mouse hippocampal PSD fraction using a proteomics approach that combines ICAT methodology with LC-MS/MS. The list of proteins generated in this study shows considerable overlap with other previously reported datasets of PSD proteins, indicating that our dataset consists of representative PSD proteins (18, 19, 31). However, the total number of proteins identified in our study is
510-fold lower than that identified in larger scale, non-brain region-specific studies of the PSD (27, 29). For example, using IMAC technology, Trinidad et al. (29) recently identified 1,264 unique proteins in the PSD fraction obtained from whole mouse brain, and Collins et al. (27) identified 620 PSD-associated proteins by performing a MS-based analysis of membrane-associated guanylate kinase signaling complexes from whole mouse brain.
The variability between different PSD datasets is likely due to differences in species/strains, brain regions, sample preparation, and method of analysis. For example, in a recent study Cheng et al. (30) compared the PSD protein profiles from rat forebrain and cerebellum using ICAT technology coupled with LC-MS/MS and found a number of proteins to exhibit statistically significant differences between these two brain regions, suggesting a marked heterogeneity of PSD profiles between brain regions. With the aim to further explore the PSD subproteome from specific brain regions, a recent report studied the PSD protein profile from rat hippocampal slices using two-dimensional LC-MS/MS (35). The list of proteins identified in the latter study overlaps significantly (more than 70 proteins) with our list of mouse hippocampal PSD proteins. When compared with another dataset of proteins identified by ICAT technology in the synaptosomal fraction (11), our dataset contains a higher proportion of proteins involved in signaling and scaffolding as well as receptors and channels. Together the datasets from these studies provide a database of hippocampal PSD proteins that will be useful for functional studies related to synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory.
Our dataset includes proteins that have been reported to be highly abundant in the PSD (such as CaMKII
, PSD-95, and synaptic Ras) as determined using the absolute quantification (AQUA) strategy (28). Our dataset also includes proteins that are of moderate abundance (such as chapsyn-110, septin, and the GluR1 subunit of AMPA receptors) and proteins of low abundance in this fraction (such as Homer 2 and protein kinase C
), suggesting that this dataset covers a range of proteins regardless of their abundance in the PSD. The presence of these proteins, which are known to modulate synaptic signaling, at the PSD is in agreement with a critical role for the PSD as a scaffolding and signaling component of the synapse.
To avoid variability during the labeling procedure, we carried out independent forward and reverse labeling of PSD fractions and combined the results from these two distinct sets of studies. Of the total of 102 proteins, only 38 were identified in both forward and reverse experiments. This is likely due to the fact that current LC-MS/MS technology can only achieve
30% reproducibility when samples with moderate complexity are repeatedly analyzed by this technique (3639). This is largely due to the fact that the MS/MS spectrometer fragments and consequently identifies only a small fraction of the peptides captured at the first stage of any given MS scan. In addition, there are some issues that can affect protein coverage when using ICAT technology. These include the absence of cysteine residues in some proteins, the low abundance of cysteine-labeled peptides, the low ionization efficiency during MS/MS, or the fact that only a subset of ions can be selected for MS/MS when many peptides are co-eluted (30). We minimized these limitations by combining results from different experiments.
We also report here the quantitative comparison of differentially expressed PSD proteins from mouse hippocampus upon morphine administration using ICAT technology. We found that several proteins were regulated in the morphine-treated animals; these represent trafficking proteins, signaling proteins, carriers/channels, and proteins involved in energy metabolism. Morphine-induced changes in these proteins have also been observed in other studies (11, 13). In one of these studies, Prokai et al. (11) examined protein expression in synaptic membranes obtained from cortex using ICAT methodology. They found that chronic morphine exposure induced a decrease in the levels of the integral membrane proteins Na+/K+-ATPase
3 subunit and clathrin. We found that morphine administration induced an increase in the levels of Na+/K+-ATPase
3 subunit and clathrin at the PSD. This could be due to differences in the extent of fractionation; we used purified PSDs, whereas Prokai et al. (11) used intact synaptic membranes. Thus, the changes observed in the latter case would represent a result of morphine effects on both the presynaptic as well as PSD fraction. By separating presynaptic proteins from the postsynaptic components, we were able to specifically focus on changes in levels of these proteins at a distinct subcellular location (i.e. PSD).
In the present study, we showed that morphine treatment induced a dramatic increase in the levels of clathrin in the hippocampal PSD fraction and increased the association of clathrin with PSD-95 and Homer. This is, to our knowledge, the first report demonstrating that morphine treatment leads to increases in the levels of clathrin and its interactions with components of the PSD; previous studies reported clathrin to be localized in endocytic zones that are in close proximity but distinct from the PSD in this brain region (40, 41). We also found that other endocytic molecules such as dynamin and AP-2 were increased at the PSD by morphine treatment. Although these proteins were identified by ICAT technology, they did not show statistically significant increases. This is likely due to the presence of more than one isoform of the same protein (caused by post-translational modification or the presence of different subunits), which cannot be distinguished at the peptide level when analyzed by mass spectrometry. The fact that we found that morphine treatment induced the recruitment of dynamin and AP-2 to the PSD suggests a possible role for the translocation of these proteins in the structure and maintenance of the PSD. These proteins are usually expressed in endocytic zones that are independent from the PSD (41). Recent studies have suggested that dynamin may localize at the PSD in association with components of the PSD, such as Homer, the mGluR5 receptor subunit, and shank (42), where it could participate in the development and modulation of synaptic plasticity.
In addition to increasing their levels at the PSD, morphine also altered the post-translational states of some endocytic proteins. It has been suggested that phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of endocytic proteins regulates their interactions, resulting in the regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis (43). This is supported by the findings that these proteins undergo dephosphorylation during the maturation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Indeed the switch from the phosphorylated state of the endocytic proteins to the dephosphorylated state after nerve terminal depolarization is thought to trigger clathrin-mediated endocytosis (44). We found that morphine treatment led to an increase in the phosphorylation state of dynamin. This would inhibit its association with partner proteins and thus down-regulate clathrin-mediated endocytosis of synaptic vesicles (45).
In neuronal dendrites and spines, clathrin cycles between pools in the plasma membrane and cytosol. The plasma membrane pools constitute active endocytic zones that lie adjacent to but spatially segregated from the PSD (40). For a receptor or other membrane protein to be internalized, it must first be translocated to specialized endocytic areas. At these sites clathrin-dependent endocytosis occurs via the assembly of a coated pit. After the binding of coated pit components to the membrane, the coated pits invaginate and are pinched off from the membrane in a dynamin-dependent manner to form clathrin-coated vesicles (46). By modulating the levels and phosphorylation states of these endocytic proteins, morphine treatment could modulate the extent of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, and this could have an impact on the levels of receptors at the synapse.
Previous reports have shown that AMPA receptor endocytosis is a clathrin- and dynamin-dependent process that involves direct binding of the clathrin·dynamin·AP-2 complex to the receptors themselves (21, 47, 48). In this work, we showed that morphine treatment significantly decreased the specific association of clathrin with the AMPA receptor subunit, GluR1. Therefore, one could hypothesize that morphine treatment decreases the rate and extent of receptor endocytosis at the synapse by recruiting clathrin and other key endocytic proteins away from the endocytic zone to the PSD, thus disabling the association between clathrin and GluR1. Such a notion is in agreement with the findings from a recent study that found an increase in the proportion of immunogold particles for GluR1 on the synaptic plasma membrane in the amygdala of rats self-administering morphine (49). Taken together, these results support the idea that plasticity at excitatory synapses contributes to the development of drug addiction (50).
In summary, using a proteomics approach we specifically analyzed a PSD-enriched protein fraction from mouse hippocampus. This database along with other hippocampal PSD databases should be useful for further functional studies related to learning and memory. Using differential isotopic labeling we identified the components of the endocytic machinery that are substantially altered by morphine administration. These results suggest a critical involvement of the endocytic machinery in the modulatory effects of morphine at the PSD and provide further insight into mechanisms underlying synaptic changes elicited by drugs of abuse.
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Published, MCP Papers in Press, October 6, 2006, DOI 10.1074/mcp.M600184-MCP200
1 The abbreviations used are: PSD, postsynaptic density; AP-2, adaptor protein-2
1; CaMKII, calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II; PSD-95, postsynaptic density protein of 95 kDa; 2-DE, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis; AMPA,
-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid; TX-100, Triton X-100. ![]()
* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants DA08863, NS26880, and DA19521 (to L. A. D.) and CA88325 (to R. W.). Electron microscopy was performed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Microscopy Shared Resource Facility, which is supported with funding from NCI, National Institutes of Health Shared Resources Grant 5R24 CA095823-04, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Grant DBI-9724504, and National Institutes of Health Shared Instrumentation Grant 1 S10 RR0 9145-01. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. ![]()
¶ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029. Tel.: 212-241-8345; Fax: 212-996-7214; E-mail: lakshmi.devi{at}mssm.edu
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