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• W2029443323 abstract "Article18 March 2004free access Developmentally regulated role for Ras-GRFs in coupling NMDA glutamate receptors to Ras, Erk and CREB Xuejun Tian Xuejun Tian Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Takaya Gotoh Takaya Gotoh Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Kiyoshi Tsuji Kiyoshi Tsuji Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Eng H Lo Eng H Lo Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Su Huang Su Huang Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Larry A Feig Corresponding Author Larry A Feig Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Xuejun Tian Xuejun Tian Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Takaya Gotoh Takaya Gotoh Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Kiyoshi Tsuji Kiyoshi Tsuji Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Eng H Lo Eng H Lo Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Su Huang Su Huang Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Larry A Feig Corresponding Author Larry A Feig Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Search for more papers by this author Author Information Xuejun Tian1, Takaya Gotoh1, Kiyoshi Tsuji2, Eng H Lo2, Su Huang1 and Larry A Feig 1 1Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA 2Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA *Corresponding author. Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Tel.: +1 617 636 6867/6868; Fax: +1 617 636 2409; E-mail: [email protected] The EMBO Journal (2004)23:1567-1575https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.emboj.7600151 PDFDownload PDF of article text and main figures. ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyWechatReddit Figures & Info p140 Ras-GRF1 and p130 Ras-GRF2 constitute a family of calcium/calmodulin-regulated guanine–nucleotide exchange factors that activate the Ras GTPases. Studies on mice lacking these exchange factors revealed that both p140 Ras-GRF1 and p130 Ras-GRF2 couple NMDA glutamate receptors (NMDARs) to the activation of the Ras/Erk signaling cascade and to the maintenance of CREB transcription factor activity in cortical neurons of adult mice. Consistent with this function for Ras-GRFs and the known neuroprotective effect of CREB activity, ischemia-induced CREB activation is reduced in the brains of adult Ras-GRF knockout mice and neuronal damage is enhanced. Interestingly, in cortical neurons of neonatal animals NMDARs signal through Sos rather than Ras-GRF exchange factors, implying that Ras-GRFs endow NMDARs with functions unique to mature neurons. Introduction Changes in intracellular calcium levels are used to regulate a wide variety of neuronal cell functions. Neuronal response to calcium is dependent not only on the magnitude and temporal properties of calcium changes but also on their spatial properties, including the specific channel through which calcium flows, presumably because this determines the specific signaling complexes with which calcium interacts, (West et al, 2001; Sheng and Kim, 2002). Thus, a major goal in understanding neuronal function is to define how calcium couples to specific signaling components under these different conditions. Excitatory synapses of the brain primarily use glutamate as a transmitter, and elevation of intracellular calcium at the postsynaptic membrane is a common outcome of the engagement of the family of glutamate receptors (Ghosh and Greenberg, 1995). N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors (NMDARs) are a particularly important member of this class of receptors since they initiate signaling cascades that underlie synaptic plasticity, neuronal development, survival and excitoxicity (Hardingham and Bading, 2003). Among the many signaling cascades activated by calcium entering cells through NMDARs are those mediated by the Ras-GTPases (H-Ras, N-Ras and K-Ras) (Sheng and Kim, 2002). Ras proteins can be activated by a wide array of upstream signals, including calcium. For the most part, Ras activation is mediated by one of a family of guanine–nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that promote the release of GDP bound to Ras, allowing activating GTP to take its place. Ras is inactivated by its intrinsic GTPase activity, which can be enhanced by GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs). In its active form, Ras can activate a variety of downstream target proteins and signaling pathways, the best characterized of which is the Raf/Mek/Erk kinase cascade (Takai et al, 2001). Although Ras proteins are known primarily for their role in promoting cell proliferation, a growing body of evidence argues that these proteins also play a key role in mediating the functions of both differentiating and fully differentiated neurons. Knockout mice deficient in the GEFs, p140 Ras-GRF1 (Brambilla et al, 1997; Giese et al, 2001) or p130 Ras-GRF2 (unpublished observations) or the GAP, NFI (Silva et al, 1998) impair specific aspects of learning, while H-Ras knockout mice display enhanced long-term potentiation (LTP) (Manabe et al, 2000). These effects of Ras are thought to be mediated in large part by its ability to regulate neuronal gene expression (Xia et al, 1996; Adams and Sweatt, 2002), at least partly through its contribution to the activation of the CREB transcription factor (Impey et al, 2002; Lonze and Ginty, 2002). Despite the importance of NMDAR signaling to Ras in neurons, the mechanism by which this occurs is just now being revealed. Prime candidates for this function are the highly similar p140 Ras-GRF1 (Shou et al, 1992) and p130 Ras-GRF2 proteins (Fam et al, 1997), since they contain calmodulin-binding domains that promote activation of the Ras-GRFs in response to elevated calcium levels in cells (Farnsworth et al, 1995; Fam et al, 1997). Moreover, p140 Ras-GRF1 and p130 Ras-GRF2 are also expressed abundantly in the neurons, but not in surrounding glial cells of the adult central nervous system and only in a limited number of additional tissues (Guerrero et al, 1996; Gotoh et al, 1997) (ubiquitously expressed smaller versions of Ras-GRF2 have been detected at the mRNA level (Fam et al, 1997), but they have never been demonstrated to encode functional calcium-regulated exchange factors). However, the ubiquitous Sos exchange factors, Sos1 and Sos2, which are best known for their ability to couple tyrosine kinase receptors to Ras, can also mediate Ras activation by calcium. This occurs by calcium-induced activation of the Pyk2 and Src tyrosine kinases, which leads to tyrosine phosphorylation of the Shc adaptor protein. Shc then attracts a Grb2/Sos complex to the plasma membrane, where its target Ras is located (Takai et al, 2001). In this paper, analysis of cortical tissue from Ras-GRF knockout mice shows that p140 GRF1 and p130 Ras-GRF2 are the predominant mediators of NMDAR activation of the Ras/Erk signaling pathway and maintain CREB activity in neurons from adult, but not neonatal animals, where Sos proteins function in this role instead. Results NMDA glutamate receptors signal through Ras-GRFs to activate the Ras/Erk/CREB signaling cascade in neurons from adult mice Mice lacking Ras-GRF1 and Ras-GRF2 were generated to elucidate their role in calcium signaling in neurons. Behavioral analysis has already detected hippocampal learning defects in both strains of mice, and subtle distinctions were noticed (Giese et al, 2001; unpublished observations). Ras-GRF double knockout mice were then created by crossing these two single knockout mouse strains. Immunoblotting of brain lysates with antibodies that preferentially recognize either Ras-GRF1 or Ras-GRF2 confirmed that ras-grf1(−/−) mice expressed only Ras-GRF2 protein, ras-grf2(−/−) mice expressed only Ras-GRF1 protein and double knockout mice expressed neither Ras-GRF protein (Figure 1A). Similar to the findings of a previous report (Fernandez-Medarde et al, 2002), we detected no gross abnormalities in the brain histology of double Ras-GRF knockout mice (data not shown). Figure 1.Ras-GRF and Sos expression in wild-type and knockout mice. (A) In all, 10 μg of cell lysates of brain from wild-type, double Ras-GRF knockout (DBKO), single Ras-GRF1 knockout (GRF1(−/−)) or single Ras-GRF2 knockout (GRF2(−/−)) adult mice were probed for Ras-GRF expression by immunoblotting with an antibody that preferentially recognizes Ras-GRF1(top panel) or Ras-GRF2 (middle panel). Double RasGRF knockout mice were generated by crossing Ras-GRF1(−/−) mice with Ras-GRF2 (−/−) mice until double knockout mice were obtained. (B) The expression levels of Ras-GRFs in primary cultures of cortical neurons isolated from newborn mice and cultured for 7 days in vitro, cortical brain slices from newborn (day 0), day 10, day 20 and day 30–40 (adult) mice are shown by immunoblotting 10 μg of cell lysates with antibodies that preferentially recognize Ras-GRF1. (C) The expression levels of Sos proteins in samples similar to those described in (B) using antibodies that recognize both Sos1 and Sos2 proteins, although lysates were from cortical brain slices from adult Ras-GRF double knockout mice, are also shown to indicate that loss of Ras-GRF proteins does not affect their expression. Download figure Download PowerPoint To determine whether NMDARs function through Ras-GRFs, neurons from control and knockout mice were compared for their responses to NMDAR activation. The expressions of both Ras-GRFs are developmentally regulated. Their levels in the cortex are low in the neonate, with Ras-GRF2 expressed at levels higher than Ras-GRF1. Both GEFs increase during postnatal development, such that they reach peak and comparable levels in animals around day 20 when extensive dendrite elaboration and synaptogenesis occurs and are maintained at high levels through adulthood (7 weeks) (Ferrari et al, 1994; Figure 1B). Thus, studies were initiated using brain slices from mature mice to maximize the possible effects of the loss of Ras-GRF proteins. Brain slices from the cortex of 30–40-day-old mice were treated with 100 μM NMDA for defined durations and then Erk activation was assessed by immunoblotting lysates with activation-specific Erk antibodies (Figure 2A). NMDA treatment led to an ∼3-fold increase in Erk activation within 5 min in samples from wild-type mice. Strikingly, this effect was completely blocked in brain slices from double Ras-GRF knockout mice. Brain slices from single Ras-GRF1 or Ras-GRF2 knockout mice displayed only small defects, arguing that both Ras-GRF1 and Ras-GRF2 contribute to Erk activation by NMDA. As Ras-GRFs are known to activate Erk through Ras, the activation state of Ras was also measured in these brain slices (Figure 2B). As expected, NMDA-induced Ras activation was observed in brain slices from wild-type mice but not in brain slices from double Ras-GRF knockout mice. Figure 2.NMDA-induced Erk, Ras and CREB activation in cortical brain slices isolated from wild-type and Ras-GRF knockout mice. (A) Erk activation. Cortical brain slices from adult wild-type and single and double Ras-GRF knockout mice were treated with NMDA (100 μM) for various amounts of time. The slices were then lysed in detergent and immunoblots of lysates were performed using activation-specific phospho-Erk antibodies or antibodies against total Erk 1 and 2. (B) Ras activation. Lysates from 10 min time points described above in (A) were exposed to sepharose beads containing the Ras-binding domain of the Ras target Raf to affinity purify active Ras-GTP. The affinity-purified form of Ras and total Ras in the brain slice in lysates was assayed by immunoblotting with anti-Ras antibodies. The doublet band of Ras-GTP is routinely found in these preparations, presumably due to removal of the C-terminus, which is sensitive to proteolytic cleavage during incubation with beads (unpublished observations). (C) CREB activation. Cortical brain slices were stimulated with either NMDA as described above, or BDNF (100 ng/ml). Lysates immunoblotted with phospho-CREB (ser133) specific antibodies or with total CREB antibodies. (D) BDNF stimulation of Erk. Experiments were performed as in (A), except that BDNF (100 ng/ml) was used to stimulate the brain slices. The results for each section are representative of at least three independent experiments. Download figure Download PowerPoint NMDA-induced CREB phosphorylation depends at least in part on Erk activation (Shaywitz and Greenberg, 1999; Hardingham et al, 2001). It is also developmentally regulated, such that NMDA produces robust CREB phosphorylation at position Ser133 in neonatal animals. However, in more mature neurons NMDARs also activate a CREB phosphatase that limits the steady-state levels of activated CREB induced by cellular kinases (Sala et al, 2000; Hardingham and Bading, 2002). In fact, we could not reproducibly detect NMDA stimulation of CREB phosphorylation at Ser133 in adult brain slices, presumably because in this mixture of cell types the small enhancement that may have occurred was masked by cells not affected by NMDA treatment (Figure 2C, left). Nevertheless, a role for Ras-GRFs in CREB regulation was supported by the observation that NMDA induced a clear decrease in CREB phosphorylation at Ser133 in brain slices from adult Ras-GRF double knockout mice. Again, brain slices from single p140 Ras-GRF1 or p130 Ras-GRF2 showed only small and barely detectable changes in NMDA-induced phosphorylation of CREB (data not shown). In contrast, BDNF, which functions through the Sos exchange factor, activated CREB similarly in both control and Ras-GRF double knockout mice (Figure 2C, right). Thus, both Ras-GRF family members contribute to the maintenance of CREB phosphorylation after NMDA stimulation, presumably through positive regulation of Erk activity. Ras-GRFs could also maintain CREB activity through negative regulation of a CREB phosphatase. Not all NMDA-induced changes were altered in knockout mice, since NMDA-induced Jnk kinase dephosphorylation was similar in brain slices from wild-type and mutant mice (data not shown). Moreover, not all Erk activation pathways were blocked because BDNF-mediated activation was normal in brain slices from double knockout mice (Figure 2D). Ras-GRFs play a protective role in stroke-induced neurotoxicity To test whether physiological changes associated with the loss of Ras-GRF expression are consistent with defects in NMDA signaling observed in isolated brain slices, we examined the response of knockout mice to an established model for stroke (Asahi et al, 2001), since excessive glutamate signaling through NMDARs is known to occur during ischemia-induced neuronal damage (Lo et al, 2003). In this paradigm, the right middle cerebral artery of mice was occluded for 2 h and then re-perfused to induce transient focal cerebral ischemia. After 24 h, mice were killed, and the volumes of ischemic lesions were measured on both the untreated and treated sides of the brain. Lesions in the brains on the treated side of double knockout mice were ∼2-fold larger than those from wild-type mice (Figure 3A and B). Consistent with previous results on CREB and ERK regulation, single p140 Ras-GRF1 or p130 Ras-GRF2 knockout mice displayed lesions that were only slighter, if at all larger, than those observed on the treated side of control mice (data not shown). These data demonstrated that both Ras-GRF family members normally play a protective role in stroke-induced neuronal damage. This finding is consistent with our conclusion from in vitro experiments using brain slices that Ras-GRFs are involved in the regulation of the activity of CREB, an established survival-promoting transcription factor (Lonze and Ginty, 2002). To gain further support for this model, CREB phosphorylation was measured in brain cell lysates from both treated and untreated sides of the brain of wild-type and double knockout mice 30 min after occlusion. While CREB phosphorylation at Ser133 increased ∼3-fold on the occluded side of the brain of wild-type mice, this effect was reduced dramatically on the occluded side of Ras-GRF double knockout mice (Figure 3C). Figure 3.Comparison of neuronal damage and CREB activation in wild-type and Ras-GRF double knockout mice after stroke-induced ischemia. (A) Ischemic lesion volumes were measured 24 h after transient focal cerebral ischemia was produced, by occluding the right internal carotid artery of wild-type (wt) and Ras-GRF double knockout mice (grf1/grf2(−/−)). Data represent the average of eight mice for each group±s.d., P<0.01. (B) Cross sections of a representative experiment used to generate data in (A), with an area of ischemia marked with an arrow. (C) CREB activation in the control half or occluded half of the brain was measured 30 min after the initiation of ischemia in either wild-type or double Ras-GRF knockout mice. The data are the average of three experiments±s.d. Download figure Download PowerPoint Sos rather than Ras-GRF mediates NMDA induction of Ras/Erk/CREB signaling in neonatal neurons The vast majority of experiments performed to date to analyze calcium signaling through the Ras/Erk signaling cascade have been carried out on primary neurons dissociated from neonatal mice. However, Ras-GRF levels are relatively low in the neonatal brain (see Figure 1B). To determine whether Ras-GRFs contribute to NMDA-induced Erk activation in neonatal cells, cerebral cortical neurons were isolated from newborn mice and cultured for 7 days in vitro (Xia et al, 1996). Neurons from wild-type and double knockout mice showed no significant differences in the amount of NMDA-stimulated Erk activation (Figure 4A). Similar results were obtained from primary cultures of cerebellar granule neurons isolated from 6–day-old mice and cultured for 7 days (data not shown). Finally, CREB phosphorylation by NMDA treatment was also not affected by the loss of Ras-GRF proteins in these neuronal cultures from double knockout mice (Figure 4B). These results show that Ras-GRF proteins do not play a major role in coupling NMDARs to Erk Map kinase and CREB activation in isolated cortical neurons derived from neonatal mice and cultured for a brief time in vitro. Figure 4.NMDA-induced Erk and CREB activation in neurons from neonatal animals. (A) Primary cultures of cortical neurons isolated from newborn mice of either wild-type or Ras-GRF double knockout mice were cultured in vitro for 7 days and then stimulated with NMDA (100 μM) for various amounts of time. Cell lysates were then assayed for Erk activation as described previously. Some neurons were exposed to the NMDAR inhibitor APV, to show that the effect of NMDA was specific. (B) Wild-type and Ras-GRF double knockout neurons were stimulated as described in (A) and then assayed for CREB activation as described previously. (C) Cortical brain slices were prepared from newborn mice as described previously for brain slices from adult animals. The samples were then stimulated and assayed as described in Figure 2. (D) Cortical brain slices from day 10 or day 20 wild-type or Ras-GRF double knockout mice were prepared and stimulated and assayed as described in Figure 2. Download figure Download PowerPoint To confirm that the difference in the way NMDARs activate the Ras/Erk signaling was a function of age of the mice and not a function of the neuron preparation, cortical brain slices from newborn, day 10 and day 20 wild-type and Ras-GRF double knockout mice were compared with previous results from adult (30–40 days) mice. Consistent with the hypothesis that the role for Ras-GRFs in coupling NMDARs to Erk is age dependent, brain slices from newborn (Figure 4C) and day 10 double Ras-GRF knockout mice (Figure 4D) showed no impairment of NMDA-induced Erk activation, while brain slices from day 20 (Figure 4D) were similar to adult brain slices (Figure 2A) in showing complete abrogation (Figure 4C) of NMDA-induced Erk activation. A similar age-dependent regulation of CREB phosphorylation by Ras-GRFs was also obtained (data not shown). In addition to responding directly to tyrosine kinase receptors, the Sos1 and Sos2 Ras exchange factors can also be activated by calcium influx. This occurs through calcium-induced activation of the Pyk (Lev et al, 1995) and Src kinases (Rusanescu et al, 1995), which leads to tyrosine phosphorylation of the Shc adaptor protein and then complex formation with a Grb2/Sos complex. To determine whether Sos proteins could be involved in NMDA-induced activation of the Ras/Erk/CREB signaling pathway in neonatal neurons, complex formation between Shc and Grb2 was assessed as an indicator of potential Sos involvement. Enhanced Shc/Grb2 complex formation was observed after NMDA stimulation of brain slices from newborn mice (Figure 5A, left). In contrast, little, if any, enhancement of Shc/Grb2 complex formation was detected after NMDA stimulation of brain slices from adult mice, consistent with our observation that Ras-GRF is the major mediator of NMDA signaling to Ras in mature neurons (Figure 5A, right). Moreover, preincubation of neurons from newborn animals with the Src inhibitor PP1 suppressed both Erk and CREB activation induced by NMDA (Figure 5B). In contrast, treatment of adult brain slices with the Src inhibitor PP1 had no effect on either Erk or CREB activity (Figure 5C), consistent with the fact that Ras-GRFs are activated directly by calcium/calmodulin binding. Finally, the developmental pattern of Sos protein expression is opposite to that of Ras-GRF, such that Sos levels are higher in the cortex of neonatal animals than in those from adult mice (Figure 1C). Figure 5.Sos protein involvement in NMDA-induced Erk activation in neurons from neonatal mice. (A) Shc/Grb2 complex formation. Cortical brain slices from neonatal or adult mice were treated with buffer (−) or NMDA (100 μm) (+) for 5 min and then lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-Shc antibodies and then immunoblotted with anti-Grb2 antibodies. Total Shc in cell lysates in samples was also assessed. The data are representative of two independent experiments. (B, C) PP1 inhibition. Buffer or various concentrations of the Src family inhibitor PP1 were preincubated for 30 min with brain slices from either neonatal mice (B) or adult mice (C). The samples were then stimulated with NMDA and processed as described previously for Erk (top panels) or CREB (bottom panels) activation. The data are representative of at least two independent experiments. Download figure Download PowerPoint These data argue that NMDARs switch from using Sos exchange factors to Ras-GRF exchange factors to activate Ras and Erk and to maintain CREB signaling upon postnatal development, concomitant with an increase in the expression of Ras-GRF proteins and a decrease in Sos expression. Discussion The experiments described in this paper reveal that both Ras-GRF proteins, Ras-GRF1 and Ras-GRF2, couple NMDA glutamate receptors to the Ras/Erk/CREB signaling cascade in neurons from adult mice. This conclusion is based on studies on tissue from knockout mice lacking either Ras-GRF1, Ras-GRF2 or both Ras-GRF family members. Knockout of only one Ras-GRF family member generated only small, difficult to reproducibly detect, defects in NMDAR regulation of Ras and Erk in brain slices from adult. The lack of the expected 50% signaling defect in single knockout mice was not due to a significant increase in the expression of the remaining family member, which suggests instead that, under normal conditions, excess Ras-GRF exchange factor activity exists. Thus, a clear defect in the regulation of Ras and Erk by NMDARs was only observed when both Ras-GRF family members were missing. CREB regulation by NMDARs was also disrupted in brain tissue from these mice. CREB activity in adult tissues is enhanced by kinases including Erk that phosphorylate it at Ser 133. However, CREB phosphatases are highly active in mature neurons and blunt NMDA activation of the transcription factor (Sala et al, 2000; Hardingham and Bading, 2002). Consistent with these findings, we failed to reproducibly detect an increase in CREB phosphorylation at Ser 133 in brain slices from adult mice after NMDA stimulation. However, in Ras-GRF double (but not single) knockout mice, we observed a clear NMDA-induced decrease in CREB phosphorylation. Thus, both Ras-GRFs likely promote the maintenance of CREB activity in the cortex of adult mice upon NMDA signaling, since Erk activity has been shown to contribute to the late phase of CREB phosphorylation after NMDA stimulation (Impey et al, 2002). Ras-GRFs could also potentially accomplish this task by suppressing CREB phosphatases, although this possibility is less likely since we found that the lack of both Ras-GRFs in Ras-GRF double knockout mice did not suppress BDNF-induced CREB phosphorylation at Ser 133. These findings imply that Ras-GRF1 and Ras-GRF2 play redundant roles in coupling NMDARs to Ras/Erk and CREB signaling, which is consistent with the fact that most CNS neurons contain both proteins (unpublished observation). However, subtle differences in the functions of an individual Ras-GRF family member may be revealed when neurons are activated by glutamate under conditions that are more natural than those used in this study. Moreover, neurons that predominantly express one Ras-GRF family member likely exist in the CNS, and thus in these cells one Ras-GRF may play the major role in calcium signaling. These possibilities are consistent with the fact that Ras-GRF1 (Itier et al, 1998), but not Ras-GRF2 (Fernandez-Medarde et al, 2002), knockout mice have been found to be smaller in size than normal mice, due at least in part to the impaired growth hormone secretion in Ras-GRF1 knockout mice (Itier et al, 1998). An equally important conclusion from these studies is that the participation of Ras-GRFs in coupling NMDARs to Ras/Erk/CREB signaling is developmentally regulated. No detectable defect in NMDAR activation of the Ras/Erk/CREB signaling cascade was observed in brain slices derived from newborn or postnatal day 10 double Ras-GRF knockout mice. However, at postnatal day 20 and beyond, contributions from both Ras-GRFs to this signaling cascade became apparent. We found evidence to support the idea that in neonatal neurons, NMDARs signal through the Sos exchange factors instead of the Ras-GRFs. Sos proteins are best known for their ability to be activated in response to ligands that activate tyrosine kinase receptors, and they play such a role by mediating neurotrophin function through Trk receptors in neurons. However, Sos proteins also become stimulated in response to elevated calcium levels in neurons through activation of intracellular tyrosine kinases, such as Src and Pyk2. These kinases phosphorylate the Shc adaptor protein, which then recruits a Grb2/Sos complex to its target Ras in the membrane (Takai et al, 2001). We demonstrated the engagement of Shc with Grb2 in neonatal brain slices stimulated with NMDA. In addition, NMDA receptor activation of the Ras/Erk/CREB signaling cascade in this tissue was blocked when an Src inhibitor was introduced. The mechanism by which NMDARs switch from Sos to Ras-GRF signaling during postnatal mouse development is not yet clear, although developmentally regulated changes in the expression of both Ras-GRFs and Sos proteins may be involved. In particular, we have shown that Sos protein expression is at its highest in neonatal neurons, when we have shown that it is functionally engaged with NMDARs, while the levels of Ras-GRF1 and Ras-GRF2 are at their lowest. In the adult, the pattern of expression and functional significance of exchange factors in NMDAR signaling is reversed. Sos levels drop dramatically during postnatal development and are at their lowest levels in the adult. Moreover, we found no evidence for NMDA signaling to Sos proteins in adult tissue, since we no longer detected an NMDA-induced increase in Shc/Grb2 complex formation, and we no longer observed suppression of NMDA induction of the Ras/Erk/CREB signaling cascade by an Src inhibitor. The reason for the loss of Sos coupling to NMDA signaling in the adult is clearly more complex than just a decrease in Sos expression, because Sos proteins are still capable of coupling neurotrophins to Ras in adult neurons and the defect we found was upstream of Sos. Presumably, signaling components needed to activate Sos through NMDARs, such as Shc or Grb2, are unable to respond to a calcium influx mediated by NMDARs in adult tissue, possibly because of their distinct subcellular localization in adult neurons. In contrast to Sos, Ras-GRF1 and Ras-GRF2" @default.
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