Regulation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptor trafficking and signaling by the caveolar/lipid raft pathway.
Regulation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptor trafficking and signaling by the caveolar/lipid raft pathway.
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10.1523/jneurosci.5824-08.2009
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2009-03-18
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Zukin RS
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Francesconi A;Kumari R;Zukin RS
Endocytic trafficking of neurotransmitter receptors is critical to neuronal signaling and activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. While the importance of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in receptor trafficking in neurons is well established, the contribution of the caveolar/lipid raft pathway has been little explored. Here we show that caveolin-1, an adaptor protein that associates with lipid rafts and the main coat protein of caveolae, binds to and co-localizes with mGluR1/5. The interaction with caveolin-1 controls the rate of constitutive mGluR1 internalization thereby regulating expression of the receptor at the cell surface. Consistent with a role for caveolin-1 in mGluR trafficking, we show that mGluR1/5 associate with lipid rafts in the brain and that their constitutive internalization is mediated, in both heterologous cells and neurons, by caveolar/raft-dependent endocytosis. We further show that caveolin-1 attenuates mGluR1-dependent activation of ERK-MAPK signaling, an effect that is abolished in cells expressing mutant mGluR1 lacking intact caveolin binding motifs. Neurons from caveolin-1 knockout mice show enhanced basal ERK1/2 phosphorylation and prolonged ERK1/2 activation in response to stimulation with DHPG, a group I mGluR selective agonist. Together, these findings underscore the importance of caveolar rafts in neurons and suggest that this pathway might play an important role in synapse formation and plasticity.