PSD (postsynaptic density)-95, a scaffold protein that tethers NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors to signal molecules, is implicated in pathological events resulting from excitotoxicity. The present study demonstrates that brain ischaemia and reperfusion increase the tyrosine phosphorylation of PSD-95 in the rat hippocampus. PP2, a specific inhibitor of SrcPTKs (Src family protein tyrosine kinases), prevents the ischaemia-induced increases not only in the tyrosine phosphorylation of PSD-95, but also in the interaction between PSD-95 and Src kinases. PSD-95 is phosphorylated either by purified Src/Fyn kinases in vitro or by co-expression of constitutively active Src/Fyn in COS7 cells. The results suggest that SrcPTKs are involved in PSD-95 phosphorylation. The single Tyr523 mutation to phenylalanine (Y523F) reduces the Src/Fyn-mediated phosphorylation of PSD-95 in COS7 cells and in vitro. As shown with a rabbit polyclonal antibody against phospho-PSD-95 (Tyr523), Tyr523 phosphorylation is responsible for the increased tyrosine phosphorylation of PSD-95 induced by ischaemia in the rat hippocampus. In cultured hippocampal neurons, overexpression of PSD-95 Y523F, but not PSD-95 Y533F, abolishes the facilitating effect of PSD-95 on the glutamate- or NMDA-mediated currents, implying that PSD-95 Tyr523 phosphorylation contributes to the post-ischaemic over-activation of NMDA receptors. Thus the present study reveals an additional mechanism for the regulation of PSD-95 by tyrosine phosphorylation. This mechanism may be of pathological significance since it is associated with excitotoxicity in the ischaemic brain.
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December 12 2008
Increased tyrosine phosphorylation of PSD-95 by Src family kinases after brain ischaemia
Cai-Ping Du;
Cai-Ping Du
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*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
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Jin Gao;
Jin Gao
1
*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
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Jian-Min Tai;
Jian-Min Tai
*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
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Yong Liu;
Yong Liu
*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
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Jing Qi;
Jing Qi
*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
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Wei Wang;
Wei Wang
*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
†New Drug Screen Center, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 TongJiaXiang Street, Jiangsu 210009, China
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Xiao-Yu Hou
Xiao-Yu Hou
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*Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Jiangsu 221002, China
2To whom correspondence should be addressed (email xyhou@xzmc.edu.cn).
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Received:
January 03 2008
Revision Received:
August 18 2008
Accepted:
August 22 2008
Accepted Manuscript online:
August 22 2008
Online ISSN: 1470-8728
Print ISSN: 0264-6021
© The Authors Journal compilation © 2009 Biochemical Society
2009
Biochem J (2009) 417 (1): 277–285.
Article history
Received:
January 03 2008
Revision Received:
August 18 2008
Accepted:
August 22 2008
Accepted Manuscript online:
August 22 2008
Citation
Cai-Ping Du, Jin Gao, Jian-Min Tai, Yong Liu, Jing Qi, Wei Wang, Xiao-Yu Hou; Increased tyrosine phosphorylation of PSD-95 by Src family kinases after brain ischaemia. Biochem J 1 January 2009; 417 (1): 277–285. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20080004
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