Name: brain slice biotinylation: an ex vivo approach to measure region-specific plasma membrane protein trafficking in adult neurons
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This work was funded by NIH grants DA15169 and DA035224 to H.E.M.

All animal handling and tissue harvesting was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Institutional Animal Care Use Committee (IACUC), following the approved protocol #A1506 (Melikian, P.I.).
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Artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF) - Make fresh daily
125 mM NaCl, 2.5 mM KCl, 1.2 mM NaH2PO4, 1.2 mM MgCl2...

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Despite longstanding knowledge that endocytic trafficking critically impacts synaptic signaling in the brain, it has proved challenging to quantitatively measure changes in protein surface expression in adult neurons.&#160;In this work, we report a reliable approach to label surface protein ex vivo in acute brain slices.&#160;Brain slice preparations have a longstanding history of utility for electrophysiological recordings, as they maintain synaptic connections and cell viability up to hours after their prepara...

Endocytic trafficking is a ubiquitous cellular mechanism that fine-tunes the plasma membrane presentation of a variety of integral membrane proteins.&#160;Endocytosis delivers vital nutrients to the intracellular milieu1 and desensitizes receptor signaling in response to receptor activation2.&#160;Endocytic recycling back to the plasma membrane can additionally enhance cellular signaling by increasing protein expression levels at the cell surface3.&#160;Moreover, membrane trafficking perturbations are implicated in numerous disease and pathological conditions4,5, stressing the need to investigate the molecular mechanisms that govern protein endocytic trafficking.&#160;While many proteins utilize classic clathrin-dependent internalization mechanisms, mounting evidence over the past several years demonstrates that multiple clathrin-independent endocytic mechanisms govern the endocytic potential of an increasing array of proteins6,7.&#160;Thus, the need to investigate endocytic mechanisms facilitating trafficking in physiological relevant systems has grown considerably.
In the brain, endocytic trafficking of receptors, ion channels and neurotransmitter transporters has a primary role in establishing synaptic plasticity8-11 and response to drugs of abuse12-15, ultimately impacting neuronal excitability and synaptic responses.&#160;To date the majority of neuronal trafficking studies rely on either heterologous expression systems or cultured primary neurons, neither of which may reliably reflect mechanisms at play in adult neurons.&#160;Here, we report an approach that uses surface biotinylation to quantitatively measure surface protein levels in acute brain slices derived from adult rodents. Using this approach, we present data that demonstrate that the mouse striatal dopamine transporter rapidly internalizes in response to phorbol ester-mediated protein kinase C (PKC) activation.

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brain slice biotinylation: an ex vivo approach to measure region-specific plasma membrane protein trafficking in adult neurons

Regulated endocytic trafficking is the central mechanism facilitating a variety of neuromodulatory events, by dynamically controlling receptor, ion channel, and transporter cell surface presentation on a minutes time scale.&#160;There is a broad diversity of mechanisms that control endocytic trafficking of individual proteins. Studies investigating the molecular underpinnings of trafficking have primarily relied upon surface biotinylation to quantitatively measure changes in membrane protein surface expression in response to exogenous stimuli and gene manipulation.&#160;However, this approach has been mainly limited to cultured cells, which may not faithfully reflect the physiologically relevant mechanisms at play in adult neurons.&#160;Moreover, cultured cell approaches may underestimate region-specific differences in trafficking mechanisms.&#160;Here, we describe an approach that extends cell surface biotinylation to the acute brain slice preparation.&#160;We demonstrate that this method provides a high-fidelity approach to measure rapid changes in membrane protein surface levels in adult neurons.&#160;This approach is likely to have broad utility in the field of neuronal endocytic trafficking.

The neuronal dopamine transporter is internalized in response to PKC activation in cell lines16-20. Despite many reports demonstrating PKC-induced DAT surface losses in a variety of cell lines and expression systems, it has been challenging to confirm this finding in cultured dopaminergic neurons21-23. We used mouse striatal slices to directly test whether DAT internalizes in response to PKC activation in adult dopaminergic neurons. Following slice preparation, slices were hemisected along the midli...

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Brain Slice Biotinylation: An Ex Vivo Approach to Measure Region-specific Plasma Membrane Protein Trafficking in Adult Neurons

Neuronal membrane trafficking dynamically controls plasma membrane protein availability and significantly impacts neurotransmission.&#160;To date, it has been challenging to measure neuronal endocytic trafficking in adult neurons.&#160;Here, we describe a highly effective, quantitative method to measure rapid changes in surface protein expression ex vivo in acute brain slices.

Brain Slice Biotinylation: An Ex Vivo Approach to Measure Region-specific Plasma Membrane Protein Trafficking in Adult Neurons

Regulated endocytic trafficking is the central mechanism facilitating a variety of neuromodulatory events, by dynamically controlling receptor, ion ...

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