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Kei Cho (Professor of Neuroscience)
Henry Wellcome LINE and MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity
How does Aβ influence synaptic plasticity?
How does Aβ regulate postsynaptic proteins?
Synaptic Plasticity: Pathways towards and away from Amyloid- peptide-mediated synaptic dysfunction
MRCMedicalResearchCouncil
Centre for Synaptic Plasticity
Synaptic Plasticity and Alzheimer’s Disease
Cerebral elevation and accumulation of A1-42 peptide in many aspects of AD mediated pathogenesis.
Oligomeric forms of A1-42 in the extracellular space correlates with cognitive decline and synaptic alterations (impairment of LTP, inflammation, fibrillization)
Synaptic Transmission
The role of AThe role of A in synaptic in synaptic plasticityplasticity
AA
LTP
LTD
Intracellular
Extracellular
?
A oligomers PlasmaMembrane
Signal cascades
?Output
Neurotoxicity, Cell death, Atrophy,
Synaptic dysfunction
Target and Strategy
Using a combination of biochemistry, molecular biology and electrophysiology, the project will explore whether soluble A regulates enzymes and postsynaptic protein-protein interactions involved in LTP and LTD.
Molecules of interest include PSD-95, GRIP1, PICK1, AMPARs, caspase and neuronal calcium sensors.
Method & Application
Dominant-negative
shRNAi
Interfering-peptide
Overexpression
Antibody
Pharmacology
Target Assays
Synaptic Transmission
Synaptic Plasticity (LTP/LTD)
Morphological Plasticity (multi-photon imaging)
Protein-protein interaction (Co-IP/GST-Pull down/Western-blot)
Target ProteinTarget ProteinRNAiRNAi
FluorescenceFluorescenceMarkerMarker
Two-Photon image:
Electrophysiology:LTP/LTD,Basal synaptic transmission(AMPAR and NMDAR-mediatedSynaptic current)
Approach 1
Dendritic spine morphology, Spine / Presynaptic bouton calcium imaging, Time-lapse imaging
Approach 2
A oligomers
Protein AssayBrain slice culture with A
Recent Relevant Publications from the Cho and Collingridge Groups
LTP inhibits LTD in the hippocampus via regulation of GSK3beta (2007, Neuron 53, 703-717)
Synaptic accumulation of PSD-95 and synaptic function regulated by phosphorylation of serine-295 of PSD-95 (2007, Neuron 56, 488-502)
An essential role for PICK1 in NMDA receptor-dependent bidirectional synaptic plasticity (2008, Neuron, 57, 872-882)
Metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated LTD involves two interacting Ca2+ sensors, NCS-1 and PICK1 (2008, Neuron, 60, 1095-1111)
Postsynapticneuron
Molecule to Cognition Unit Satellite Research Facility
Molecule to Cognition Unit Consortium:
Graham Collingridge, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Sang-Jeong Kim and Min Zhou, Kei Cho (Adjunct Faculty)
United Kingdom Canada
SPINE (Synaptic Plasticity & Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology), Bristol
Physiology, Univ. of Toronto
MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, Univ. of Bristol
Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience & Endocrinology, Univ. of Bristol
Molecule to Cognition Unit
Brain & Cognitive Sciences, SNU, Korea
Henry Wellcome LINE
Alzheimer’s Disease
Synaptic Plasticity & Repair
Molecular Biology & Stem Cell Biology
MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity (23PIs)
SPINE, Bristol
Stress & Endocrinology
Multi-Photon Imaging Technique
Multi-photon microscopy enables high resolution imaging in brain tissue (e.g. slices and in vivo).
Confocal microscopy is limited to thin tissue preparations (cell cultures or organotypic slices)
1 m
High resolution multi-photon image: dendrite with spines
Single-Photon Multi-Photon
Not Just Experiment but also……..
Molecule to Cognition Unit Satellite Research Facility
‘Best Regards’ to All of You from Kei’s Lab
Plus Me!