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. 1996 Sep 17;93(19):10452–10456. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.19.10452

Enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of the 2B subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in long-term potentiation.

J A Rostas 1, V A Brent 1, K Voss 1, M L Errington 1, T V Bliss 1, J W Gurd 1
PMCID: PMC38405  PMID: 8816821

Abstract

Both serine/threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation of receptor proteins have been implicated in the process of long-term potentiation (LTP), but there has been no direct demonstration of a change in receptor phosphorylation after LTP induction. We show that, after induction of LTP in the dentate gyrus of anesthetized adult rats, there is an increase in the tyrosine phosphorylation of the 2B subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor (NR2B), as well as several other unidentified proteins. Tyrosine phosphorylation of NR2B was measured in two ways: binding of antiphosphotyrosine antibodies (PY20) to glycoprotein(s) of 180 kDa (GP180) purified on Con A-Sepharose and binding of anti-NR2B antibodies to tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins purified on PY20-agarose. Three hours after LTP induction, anti-NR2B binding to tyrosine phosphorylated proteins, expressed as a ratio of tetanized to control dentate (Tet/Con), was 2.21 +/- 0.50 and PY20 binding to GP180 was 1.68 +/- 0.16. This increase in the number of tyrosine phosphorylated NR2B subunits occurred without a change in the total number of NR2B subunits. When the induction of LTP was blocked by pretreatment of the animal with the NMDA receptor antagonist MK801, the increase in PY20 binding to GP180 was also blocked (Tet/Con = 1.09 +/- 0.26). The increased PY20 binding to GP180 was also apparent 15 min after LTP induction (Tet/Con = 1.41 +/- 0.16) but not detectable 5 min after LTP induction (Tet/Con = 1.01 +/- 0.19). These results suggest that tyrosine phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor contributes to the maintenance of LTP.

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