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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

Antagonistic interaction between adenosine A2A receptors and Na+/K+-ATPase-α2 controlling glutamate uptake in astrocytes.

Marco Matos, Elisabete Augusto, Paula Agostinho, Rodrigo A Cunha, Jiang-Fan Chen

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 124 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marco MatosDepartment of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal, and FMUC-Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.
Elisabete Augusto
Paula Agostinho
Rodrigo A Cunha
Jiang-Fan Chen
Boston University · USUniversity of Coimbra · PT

Funding

NOVEL BENEFIT OF A2A RECEPTOR INACTIVATION IN PD MODELSR01NS041083 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CHEN, JIANG-FAN · 2001 to 2013
$3.1M
NINDS NIH HHS NS041083-07NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS041083
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Astrocytic glutamate transporter-1 (GLT-I) is critical to control the bulk of glutamate uptake and, thus, to regulate synaptic plasticity and excitotoxicity. GLT-I glutamate uptake is driven by the sodium gradient implemented by Na(+)/K(+)-ATPases (NKAs) and the α2 subunit of NKA (NKA-α2) is actually linked to GLT-I to regulate astrocytic glutamate transport. We recently found that adenosine A2A receptors (A2ARs), which control synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration, regulate glutamate uptake through unknown mechanisms. Here we report that A2AR activation decreases NKA activity selectively in astrocytes to inhibit glutamate uptake. Furthermore, we found a physical association of A2ARs with NKA-α2s in astrocytes, as gauged by coimmunoprecipitation and in situ proximity ligation assays, in the cerebral cortex and striatum, two brain regions where A2ARs inhibit the astrocytic glutamate uptake. Moreover, the selective deletion of A2ARs in astrocytes (using Gfa2-A2AR-KO mice) leads to a concurrent increase of both astrocytic glutamate uptake and NKA-α2 levels and activity in the striatum and cortex. This coupling of astrocytic A2ARs to the regulation of glutamate transport through modulation of NKA-α2 activity provides a novel mechanism linking neuronal activity to ion homeostasis controlling glutamatergic activity, all of which are processes intricately associated with the etiology of several brain diseases.

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AdenosineAdenosine A2 Receptor AgonistsAdenosine A2 Receptor AntagonistsAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAspartic AcidAstrocytesGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinGlutamic AcidImmunoprecipitationMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOuabainPhenethylamines2-(4-(2-carboxyethyl)phenethylamino)-5'-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine5-amino-7-(2-phenylethyl)-2-(2-furyl)pyrazolo(4,3-e)-1,2,4-triazolo(1,5-c)pyrimidineAdenosineAdenosine A2 Receptor AgonistsAdenosine A2 Receptor AntagonistsAspartic AcidGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinGlutamic AcidOuabainPhenethylaminesPyrimidinesReceptor, Adenosine A2ASodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPaseTriazolesTritium

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PMID24259572
PMCPMC3834055
OpenAlexW2000263684

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