Restoration of Extrasynaptic/Synaptic GABAAR-α5 Localization Improves Sevoflurane-Induced Early Memory Impairment in Aged Mice
Mengxue Zhang1,2,3 · Xiaokun Wang1,2,3 · Zhun Wang1,2,3 · Jinpeng Dong1,2,3 · Sixuan Wang1,2,3 · Ying Dong1,2,3 · Changyu Jiang4 · Yiqing Yin1,2,3
1 Department of Anesthesiology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China
2 Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China
3 Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin 300060, China
4 Department of Pain Medicine and Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for Pain Medicine, Afliated Nanshan Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518052, China
Abstract
GABAA receptors containing α5-subunits (GABAAR-α5) cluster at both extrasynaptic and synaptic locations, interacting with the scaffold proteins radixin and gephyrin, respectively, and the re-localization of GABAAR-α5 influences GABAergic transmission. Here, we found that when early spatial memory deficits occurred in aged mice at 24 h after sevoflurane anesthesia, there was a re-localization of GABAAR-α5 that enhanced tonic inhibition and reduced the decay kinetics of miniature inhibitory postsynaptic currents in the hippocampal CA1 region. Mechanistically, increased phosphorylation of radixin at threonine 564 (Thr564) mediates the re-localization of GABAAR-α5. Acute treatment with the selective extrasynaptic GABAAR-α5 antagonist S44819 restored the GABAAR-α5-mediated inhibitory currents by reversing radixin phosphorylation-dependent GABAAR-α5 re-localization, then improved the sevoflurane-induced spatial memory impairment in aged mice. Our results suggest that the localization of GABAAR-α5 altered by sevoflurane is linked to unbalanced GABAergic transmission, which induces early memory impairment in aged mice. Modulating the GABAAR-α5 localization might be a novel strategy to improve memory after sevoflurane exposure.
Keywords
Aging; Sevofurane; Memory; GABAAR-α5; Hippocampus
