Both exposure to a novel context and associative learning induce an upregulation of AKAP150 protein in mouse hippocampus

Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2007 May;87(4):693-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.12.008. Epub 2007 Jan 31.

Abstract

A-kinase anchoring protein 150 (AKAP150) is a multi-enzyme signaling complex that coordinates the action of PKA, PKC, and PP2B at neuronal membranes and synapses. We measured levels of AKAP150 protein in the hippocampus 6h after training mice in a contextual fear conditioning paradigm. In contextual fear conditioning mice learn to associate a context with a footshock presentation. Mice were divided in four experimental groups with different training protocols: naive, no footshock exposure, immediate footshock exposure, and footshock 3min after exposure to the context. We found that AKAP150 protein levels were increased upon exposing mice to the novel context independent of the training protocol. However, when the animals were habituated to the experimental context, only mice that learned to associate the context with the footshock showed an upregulation of AKAP150. We suggest that upregulated levels of AKAP150 contribute to processing the exposure to a novel context and associative learning.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • A Kinase Anchor Proteins
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / metabolism*
  • Animals
  • Association Learning / physiology*
  • Environment*
  • Exploratory Behavior / physiology*
  • Habituation, Psychophysiologic / physiology
  • Hippocampus / metabolism*
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL

Substances

  • A Kinase Anchor Proteins
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Akap5 protein, mouse