Generation of a pain memory in the primary afferent nociceptor triggered by PKCε activation of CPEB.
Generation of a pain memory in the primary afferent nociceptor triggered by PKCε activation of CPEB.
复制标题
DOI:
10.1523/jneurosci.5138-11.2012
复制
发表时间:
2012-02-08
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Levine JD
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Bogen O;Alessandri-Haber N;Chu C;Gear RW;Levine JD
Isolectin B4 positive [IB4(+)] primary afferent nociceptors challenged with an inflammatory or neuropathic insult develop a protein kinase C epsilon (PKCε)-dependent long-lasting hyperalgesic response to a subsequent challenge by the pro-inflammatory cytokine prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a phenomenon known as hyperalgesic priming. Here we demonstrate that the neuroplasticity underlying nociceptor priming requires 72 hrs to be established; rats that have been challenged with the inflammatory mediator TNFα 24 hrs or 48 hrs ahead of PGE2 do not show the enhanced and prolonged hyperalgesic response by which primed IB4(+)-nociceptors are being characterized. Moreover, as the underlying plasticity can be interrupted by the peripheral administration of the protein translation inhibitor anisomycin it is reflected by changes in the peripheral protein expression pattern. Finally, the induction of priming by the selective PKCε agonist, psi epsilon receptor for activated c kinase (ψεRACK) can be prevented, but not reversed by intrathecal injections of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides for the cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB) mRNA, a master regulator of protein translation that co-immunoprecipitated with PKCε and is almost exclusively expressed by IB4(+)-nociceptors. Our results suggest that CPEB is downstream of PKCε in the cellular signaling cascade responsible for the induction of priming, raising the intriguing possiblity that prion-like misfolding could be a responsible mechanism for the chronification of pain.