Overactivation of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate and N-methyl-D-aspartate but not kainate receptors inhibits phosphatidylcholine synthesis before excitotoxic neuronal death

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Glutamate receptor overactivation induces excitotoxic neuronal death, but the contribution of glutamate receptor subtypes to this excitotoxicity is unclear. We have previously shown that excitotoxicity by NMDA receptor overactivation is associated with choline release and inhibition of phosphatidylcholine synthesis. We have now investigated whether the ability of non-NMDA ionotropic glutamate receptor subtypes to induce excitotoxicity is related to the ability to inhibit phosphatidylcholine synthesis, α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate (AMPA)-induced a concentration-dependent increase in extracellular choline and inhibited phosphatidylcholine synthesis when receptor desensitization was prevented. Kainate released choline and inhibited phosphatidylcholine synthesis by an action at AMPA receptors, because these effects of kainate were blocked by the AMPA receptor antagonist LY300164. Selective activation of kainate receptors failed to release choline, even when kainate receptor desensitization was prevented. The inhibition of phosphatidylcholine synthesis evoked by activation of non-desensitizing AMPA receptors was followed by neuronal death. In contrast, specific kainate receptor activation, which did not inhibit phosphatidylcholine synthesis, did not produce neuronal death. Choline release and inhibition of phosphatidylcholine synthesis were induced by AMPA at non-desensitizing AMPA receptors well before excitotoxicity. Furthermore, choline release by AMPA required the entry of Ca2+ through the receptor channel. Our results show that AMPA, but not kainate, receptor overactivation induces excitotoxic cell death, and that this effect is directly related to the ability to inhibit phosphatidylcholine synthesis. Moreover, these results indicate that inhibition of phosphatidylcholine synthesis is an early event of the excitotoxic process, downstream of glutamate receptor-mediated Ca2+ overload.

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Gasull, T., DeGregorio-Rocasolano, N., & Trullas, R. (2001). Overactivation of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate and N-methyl-D-aspartate but not kainate receptors inhibits phosphatidylcholine synthesis before excitotoxic neuronal death. Journal of Neurochemistry, 77(1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-4159.2001.00187.x

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