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Abstract
Joo Min Park,1,6,7 Jia-Hua Hu,1,7 Aleksandr Milshteyn,3,7 Ping-Wu Zhang,1 Chester G. Moore,1 Sungjin Park,1 Michael C. Datko,4 Racquel D. Domingo,4 Cindy M. Reyes,4 Xiaodong J. Wang,5 Felicia A. Etzkorn,5 Bo Xiao,1 Karen K. Szumlinski,4 Dorothee Kern,3 David J. Linden,1 and Paul F. Worley1,2,*
1Department of Neuroscience
2Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
3Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
4Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA 93106, USA
5Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
6Department of Physiology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju 690-756, South Korea
7These authors contributed equally to this work
*Correspondence: Paul F. Worley
Summary
Synaptic plasticity induced by cocaine and other drugs underlies addiction. Here we elucidate molecular events at synapses that cause this plasticity and the resulting behavioral response to cocaine in mice. In response to D1-dopamine-receptor signaling that is induced by drug administration, the glutamate-receptor protein metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) is phosphorylated by microtubule-associated protein kinase (MAPK), which we show potentiates Pin1-mediated prolyl-isomerization of mGluR5 in instances where the product of an activity-dependent gene, Homer1a, is present to enable Pin1-mGluR5 interaction. These biochemical events potentiate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-mediated currents that underlie synaptic plasticity and cocaine-evoked motor sensitization as tested in mice with relevant mutations. The findings elucidate how a coincidence of signals from the nucleus and the synapse can render mGluR5 accessible to activation with consequences for drug-induced dopamine responses and point to depotentiation at corticostriatal synapses as a possible therapeutic target for treating addiction.
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