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The relationship between long-term electrical activity and protein phosphorylation was investigated in single, identifiable neurons in the abdominal ganglion ofAplysia californica by the intracellular injection of radiolabeled ATP followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) gel electrophoresis.
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Natural and pharmacological treatments that alter the impulse activity of neurons L6 and R15 for prolonged periods did not appear to affect the phosphorylation of most of the 15 major phosphoproteins examined in these cells.
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Long-term excitation of L6 induced by the phosphodiesterase inhibitor IBMX correlated with phosphorylation of a 29,000-dalton protein. Long-term inhibition of L6 induced by afterdischarge of peptidergic bag-cell neurons appeared to cause dephosphorylation of a 29,000-dalton protein.
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Burst augmentation of R 15 induced by bag-cell afterdischarge did not cause detectable changes in the phosphorylation of the major proteins we examined.
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These data are consistent with other studies of neural and nonneural tissues which have found a correlation between activity and the level of phosphorylation of a 29,000-dalton protein.
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Schaefer, M., Shirk, P.D., Roth, D.L. et al. Activity-related changes in protein phosphorylation in an identifiedAplysia neuron. Cell Mol Neurobiol 5, 321–331 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00755399
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