Regulatory Mechanisms and Pathophysiological Significance of IP3 Receptors and Ryanodine Receptors in Drug Dependence
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J Pharmacol Sci 123, 000 – 000 (2013) Journal of Pharmacological Sciences © The Japanese Pharmacological Society Current Perspective Regulatory Mechanisms and Pathophysiological Significance of IP3 Receptors and Ryanodine Receptors in Drug Dependence Koji Mizuno1, Kazuhiro Kurokawa1, and Seitaro Ohkuma1,* 1Department of Pharmacology, Kawasaki Medical School, Matsushima 577, Kurashiki 701-0192, Japan Received June 17, 2013; Accepted October 17, 2013 Abstract. Calcium is a ubiquitous intracellular signaling molecule required for initiating and regulating neuronal functions. Ca2+ release from intracellular stores in the endoplasmic reticulum into intracellular spaces via intracellular Ca2+–releasing channels, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3Rs) and ryanodine receptors (RyRs), is one mechanism altering the intracellular Ca2+ concentration. Functional abnormalities in endoplasmic calcium channels can disturb cellular calcium homeostasis and, in turn, produce pathological conditions. Indeed, our recent studies have indicated the involvement of these upregulated calcium channels in development of the rewarding effect of a drug of abuse and the suppression of its rewarding effect by calcium-channel inhibitors, which suggests a possible functional relationship between intracellular dynamics and the develop- ment of the rewarding effects induced by an abused drug. Although previous reports showed that the most important regulators of both RyR and IP3R channel functions are changes in the intra- cellular Ca2+ concentration and in phosphorylation of these channels by numerous kinases and calcium modulators, little information is available to clarify how the expression of intracellular calcium channels is regulated. In this review, we therefore introduce the roles and regulatory mechanisms of intracellular calcium channels in drug dependence, especially in the rewarding effect induced by the abused drug. Keywords: drug dependence, type 1 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors, AP-1, nuclear factor of activated T-cells c4 (NFATc4), calcium channel 1. Introduction two types of receptors are different. Calcium release through IP3Rs is dominantly mediated by IP3 produced Two main intracellular calcium channels, inositol 1,4,5- after G protein–coupled receptor activation, whereas that trisphospate receptors (IP3Rs) and ryanodine receptors through RyRs is mediated by cyclic ADP ribose or direct (RyRs), present in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of mam- interaction of RyRs and an elevated intracellular Ca2+ malian cells are responsible for Ca2+ release from intra- concentration in association with the opening of L-type cellular stores to the intracellular cytoplasm. Even though voltage-dependent calcium channels (VDCCs), the latter the amino acid sequences of IP3Rs and RyRs molecules called calcium-induced calcium release (4). The pro- have little homology, both channels have very similar cesses that modify physiological functions mediated via domain interfaces in the N-terminal region (1) that changes of the free intracellular Ca2+ concentration are regulate the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration. In addition, the complex and multifaceted. In neurons, Ca2+ regulation by function of both families of channels is also regulated by ER plays various roles in neuronal activities, e.g., modi- intracellular Ca2+ and several types of kinases (2, 3). fication of synaptic vesicle release (5) or regulation of However, the triggers that initiate Ca2+ release in these nerve growth (6) in the axon. Thus, it is supposed that changes in intracellular Ca2+ concentration induce bio- *Corresponding author. [email protected] logical and physiological actions in the cells and Published online in J-STAGE doi: 10.1254/jphs.13R07CP body. Considering the importance of calcium signals for cellular functions, functional abnormalities in endo- Invited article plasmic calcium channels could result in disturbance in 1 2 K Mizuno et al cellular calcium homeostasis and, in turn, produce patho- The physiological relevance of the existence of multiple logical conditions. For example, IP3Rs in the brain have IP3R isoforms is also supported by the fact that their been hypothesized to contribute to opisthotonus in mice expression pattern in the subcellular localization varies (7). In addition, IP3R-knockdown mice showed longer in different types of cells and organs (19) and that it immobility in the forced swimming test, and type 1 IP3R changes during cellular differentiation and development (IP3R-1)-deficient mice exhibited ataxia and epileptic as well as under pathophysiological situations (2). seizures (8, 9). Further, functional disturbances of IP3Rs and RyRs appear to be involved in neurodegenerative 3. Type I inositol 1,4,5-trisphospate receptors in drug diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s dependence disease (10 – 12). On the other hand, L-type VDCCs on the cell surface Among the 3 subtypes of IP3Rs with distinct physio- are a large family of integral membrane proteins that logical properties (2), IP3R-1 is the major neuronal 2+ control the selective flow of Ca down their electro- member of the IP3R family in the central nervous system, chemical gradient in response to changes in membrane predominantly enriched in cerebellar Purkinje cells and potential. They are classified into distinct subtypes (L, N, concentrated in cerebral cortical neurons (20). The most P/Q, R, and T) based on their pharmacological and bio- important regulators of IP3R channel functions are con- physical properties. As described above, calcium signals sidered to be changes in the intracellular Ca2+ concentra- are important for cellular functions and participate in tion and phosphorylation of IP3R protein by numerous several diseases. In drug dependence, our previous study kinases and calcium modulators (2). However, it is not suggests that upregulation of VDCCs, especially a1c and yet clear how the expression of IP3Rs is regulated. a2/d subunits, is involved in the development of the Dopaminergic neurons in the mesolimbic dopamine rewarding effect induced by abused drugs. Further, system, which originate from the ventral tegmental area inhibitors for VDCCs, such as nifedipine and gabapentin, and project their axons predominantly to the nucleus suppressed the abused drugs–induced rewarding effect accumbens (NAcc) and prefrontal cortex, have been (13, 14). These experimental data suggest that calcium considered to play a crucial role in the rewarding effect influx into the cytoplasm from extracellular sources, that and development of drug dependence (15, 21). In is, an increase in calcium concentration in the cytoplasm, addition, a previous study demonstrated that enhance- is core to developing drug dependence. This review ment of activity of dopaminergic neurons in the rat introduces the roles and regulatory mechanisms of intra- ventral tegmental area by IP3R-1 stimulation is an cellular calcium channels, especially IP3R-1, in drug essential step for subsequent behavioral changes and that dependence. this step probably is involved in amphetamine-induced rewarding effect (22). Similarly, our recent studies show 2. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphospate receptors that both methamphetamine and cocaine, well known psychostimulants, upregulate IP3Rs-1 in association with Cell activation by extracellular agonists such as hor- strengthening of their rewarding effect and that the mones, growth factors, and neurotransmitters often leads increases of the rewarding effect in response to both to phospholipase-C (PLC) activation subsequent to intra- agents were significantly suppressed by the IP3Rs antago- cellular IP3 production. IP3 diffuses through the cyto- nists 2-aminoethoxydiphenyl borate (2-APB) and xesto- plasm until it binds and activates its receptor. IP3Rs are spongin C. In addition, both events, IP3R-1 upregulation one of the intracellular Ca2+ release channels predomi- and the increase of the rewarding effect, were signifi- nantly located on the ER and responsible for a controlled cantly suppressed by antagonists selective to dopamine 2+ release of Ca ions into the cytoplasm, which is impor- D1- and D2-like receptors (23, 24). Taken together these 2+ tant to initiate complex spatio-temporal Ca signals (15, data indicates that IP3R-1 upregulation in NAcc and 2+ 16). The functional IP3R/Ca release channel is a tetra- cortex via dopamine D1- and D2-like receptors is likely to mer, and the 4 subunits composing the channel have be one of the mechanisms responsible for the rewarding similar general structures. The diversity of IP3Rs is due effect. to the presence of 3 genes (ITPR1, ITPR2, and ITPR3) encoding for IP3R-1, -2, and -3 respectively, the occur- 4. Mechanisms of upregulation of inositol 1,4,5- rence of splicing events, and the possible formation of trisphospate receptors via dopamine receptors homo- and heterotetramers (2). Their affinities for IP3 display the rank order IP3R-2 > IP3R-1 > IP3R-3 (17, 18), As described above, although several reports have and a difference in sensitivity to regulatory factors in- demonstrated that the most important regulators of IP3R cluding Ca2+, ATP, and protein kinases was observed (2). channel functions are likely to be the changes in intra- IP3 Receptors in Drug Dependence 3 Fig. 1. Schema of regulatory mechanisms of IP3R-1 and RyR expression. The figure shows regulatory mechanisms of IP3R-1 and RyR expres- sion via dopamine D1-like receptors and D2-like receptors, especially mediated via the calcium signal transduction pathways. Inhibitors