The Two Regulatory Subunits of Aplysia cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Mediate Distinct Functions in Producing Synaptic Plasticity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2465-2474

  Liu, Jimming ^a   Hu, Jiang Yuan ^a   Schacher, Samuel ^a   Schwartz, James H ^a  

^a New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aplysia; CREB; Cyclic nucleotide; Gene expression; Memory; Protein kinase; Sensitization; Sensory neuron; Serotonin; Synaptosome

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE R SUBUNIT; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SEROTONIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FACILITATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSPORT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEROTONIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 1542267750     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4331-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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