Experience-induced remodeling of the hippocampal post-synaptic proteome and phosphoproteome

Mol Cell Proteomics. 2023 Oct 6:100661. doi: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100661. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe postsynaptic density (PSD) of excitatory synapses contains a highly organized protein network with thousands of proteins and is key node in the regulation of synaptic plasticity. To gain new mechanistic insight into experience-induced changes in the PSD, we examined the global dynamics of the hippocampal PSD proteome and phosphoproteome in mice following 4 different types of experience. Mice were trained using an inhibitory avoidance (IA) task and hippocampal PSD fractions were isolated from individual mice to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying experience-dependent remodeling of synapses. We developed a new strategy to identify and quantify the relatively low level of site-specific phosphorylation of PSD proteome from the hippocampus, by using a modified iTRAQ-based TiSH protocol. In the PSD, we identified 3,938 proteins and 2,761 phosphoproteins in the sequential strategy covering a total of 4,968 unique protein groups (at least 2 peptides including an unique peptide). On the phosphoproteins, we identified a total of 6,188 unambiguous phosphosites (75%<site-localization probability). Strikingly, of the significantly IA-regulated phosphoproteins, a large fraction of these displayed an overall decrease in phosphorylation level. Bioinformatic analysis of proteins and phosphoproteins that were regulated by IA were annotated for involvement in the regulation of ...
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