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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 45, 38020-38028, November 11, 2005

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cAMP Differentially Regulates Axonal and Dendritic Development of Dentate Granule Cells^*

From the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Neurite polarity is a morphological characteristic of dentate gyrus granule cells, which extend axons to the hilar region and dendrites in the opposite direction, i.e. to the molecular layer. This remarkable polarity must require a differential system for axon and dendrite guidance. Here, we report that the axon and dendrites of a granule cell are differentially responsive to cAMP. In developing cultures of dispersed granule cells, dendritic growth cones were increased in number after pharmacological activation of cAMP signaling and decreased after blockade of cAMP signaling. Activation of cAMP signaling antagonized dendritic collapse induced by the potent repellents Sema3F and glutamate. In contrast to dendrites, axons were protected from Sema3F-induced collapse when cAMP signaling was inhibited. Axonal and dendritic growth cones both expressed type 1 adenylyl cyclase, but only axons showed a cAMP increase in response to Sema3F, and the elevated cAMP was sufficient to collapse axonal growth cones. Thus, the axons and dendrites of dentate granule cells differ in the regulation of cAMP levels as well as responsiveness to cAMP. cAMP may be crucial for shaping the information flow polarity in the dentate gyrus circuit.

Received for publication, April 7, 2005 , and in revised form, September 8, 2005.

^* This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

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¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Lab. of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. Tel.: 81-3-5841-4783; Fax: 81-3-5841-4786; E-mail: ikegaya{at}mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

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