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Computational modeling reveals frequency modulation of calcium-cAMP/PKA pathway in dendritic spines

View ORCID ProfileD. Ohadi, View ORCID ProfileD. L. Schmitt, B. Calabrese, S. Halpain, J. Zhang, View ORCID ProfileP. Rangamani
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/521740
D. Ohadi
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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D. L. Schmitt
2Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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B. Calabrese
3Division of Biological Sciences and Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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S. Halpain
3Division of Biological Sciences and Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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J. Zhang
2Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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P. Rangamani
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Abstract

Dendritic spines are the primary excitatory postsynaptic sites that act as subcompartments of signaling. Ca2+ is often the first and most rapid signal in spines. Downstream of calcium, the cAMP/PKA pathway plays a critical role in the regulation of spine formation, morphological modifications, and ultimately, learning and memory. While the dynamics of calcium are reasonably well-studied, calcium-induced cAMP/PKA dynamics, particularly with respect to frequency modulation, are not fully explored. In this study, we present a well-mixed model for the dynamics of calcium-induced cAMP/PKA dynamics in dendritic spines. The model is constrained using experimental observations in the literature. Further, we measured the calcium oscillation frequency in dendritic spines of cultured hippocampal CA1 neurons and used these dynamics as model inputs. Our model predicts that the various steps in this pathway act as frequency modulators for calcium and the high frequency of calcium input is filtered by AC1 and PDEs in this pathway such that cAMP/PKA only responds to lower frequencies. This prediction has important implications for noise filtering and long-timescale signal transduction in dendritic spines. A companion manuscript presents a three-dimensional spatial model for the same pathway.

Statement of Significance cAMP/PKA activity triggered by calcium is an essential biochemical pathway for synaptic plasticity, regulating spine structure, and long-term potentiation. In the current study, we predicted that for a given calcium input, AC1, and PDE1 kinetics reflect both the high and the low frequencies with different amplitudes and cAMP/PKA acts as a leaky integrator of calcium because of frequency attenuation by the intermediary steps. These findings have implications for cAMP/PKA signaling in dendritic spines in particular and neuronal signal transduction in general.

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  • Abbreviations CaM: Calmodulin; AC1: Adenylyl cyclase 1; ATP: Adenosine triphosphate; cAMP: Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; PDE1: Phosphodiesterase 1; PDE4: Phosphodiesterase 4; PKA: Protein kinase A; IC: Initial concentration; ODE: Ordinary differential equation; LTP: Long-term potentiation; LTD: Long-term depression; AKAP: A-kinase anchoring protein; IP3 receptor: Inositol trisphosphate receptor; FRET: Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; NMDAR: N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor; AMPAR: α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor; βAR: β-adrenergic receptor; ISO: isoproterenol.

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Computational modeling reveals frequency modulation of calcium-cAMP/PKA pathway in dendritic spines
D. Ohadi, D. L. Schmitt, B. Calabrese, S. Halpain, J. Zhang, P. Rangamani
bioRxiv 521740; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/521740
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D. Ohadi, D. L. Schmitt, B. Calabrese, S. Halpain, J. Zhang, P. Rangamani
bioRxiv 521740; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/521740

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