PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ryosuke Tsumagari
AU  - Sho Kakizawa
AU  - Sakiko Kikunaga
AU  - Yoshitaka Fujihara
AU  - Shuji Ueda
AU  - Minoru Yamanoue
AU  - Naoaki Saito
AU  - Masahito Ikawa
AU  - Yasuhito Shirai
TI  - DGKγ Knock-Out Mice Show Impairments in Cerebellar Motor Coordination, LTD, and the Dendritic Development of Purkinje Cells through the Activation of PKCγ
AID  - 10.1523/ENEURO.0319-19.2020
DP  - 2020 Mar 01
TA  - eneuro
PG  - ENEURO.0319-19.2020
VI  - 7
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.eneuro.org/content/7/2/ENEURO.0319-19.2020.short
4100  - http://www.eneuro.org/content/7/2/ENEURO.0319-19.2020.full
SO  - eNeuro2020 Mar 01; 7
AB  - Diacylglycerol kinase γ (DGKγ) regulates protein kinase C (PKC) activity by converting DG to phosphatidic acid (PA). DGKγ directly interacts with PKCγ and is phosphorylated by PKCγ, resulting in the upregulation of lipid kinase activity. PKC dysfunction impairs motor coordination, indicating that the regulation of PKC activity is important for motor coordination. DGKγ and PKC are abundantly expressed in cerebellar Purkinje cells. However, the physiological role of DGKγ has not been elucidated. Therefore, we developed DGKγ knock-out (KO) mice and tested their cerebellar motor coordination. In DGKγ KO mice, cerebellar motor coordination and long-term depression (LTD) were impaired, and the dendrites of Purkinje cells from DGKγ KO mice were significantly retracted. Interestingly, treatment with the cPKC inhibitor Gö6976 (Gö) rescued the dendritic retraction of primary cultured Purkinje cells from DGKγ KO mice. In contrast, treatment with the PKC activator 12-o-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) reduced morphologic alterations in the dendrites of Purkinje cells from wild-type (WT) mice. In addition, we confirmed the upregulation of PKCγ activity in the cerebellum of DGKγ KO mice and rescued impaired LTD in DGKγ KO mice with a PKCγ-specific inhibitor. Furthermore, impairment of motor coordination observed in DGKγ KO mice was rescued in tm1c mice with DGKγ reexpression induced by the FLP-flippase recognition target (FRT) recombination system. These results indicate that DGKγ is involved in cerebellar LTD and the dendritic development of Purkinje cells through the regulation of PKCγ activity, and thus contributes to cerebellar motor coordination.