Abstract
The behavioral response to antidepressants is closely associated with physiological changes in the function of neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG). Parvalbumin interneurons are a major class of GABAergic neurons, essential for DG function, and are involved in the pathophysiology of several neuropsychiatric disorders. However, little is known about the role(s) of these neurons in major depressive disorder or in mediating the delayed behavioral response to antidepressants. Here we show, in mice, that hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons express functionally silent serotonin 5A receptors, which translocate to the cell membrane and become active upon chronic, but not acute, treatment with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Activation of these serotonergic receptors in these neurons initiates a signaling cascade through which Gi-protein reduces cAMP levels and attenuates protein kinase A and protein phosphatase 2A activities. This results in increased phosphorylation and inhibition of Kv3.1β channels, and thereby reduces the firing of the parvalbumin neurons. Through the loss of this signaling pathway in these neurons, conditional deletion of the serotonin 5A receptor leads to the loss of the physiological and behavioral responses to chronic antidepressants.
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Introduction
The most commonly used antidepressant drugs, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), have been shown to act in part by promoting a series of synaptic, cellular and network adaptations in the dentate gyrus (DG) [1,2,3,4]. Granule cells, the main neuronal type in the DG, are essential for the chronic response to SSRIs through 5-HT1A receptors [4], but their activity occurs within a dynamic neuronal microcircuitry under the control of interneuron populations of the DG. Two different classes of serotonin receptors, 5-HT1B and 5-HT2A, located on cholecystokinin (CCK)-expressing inhibitory interneurons, are critical for both the acute and chronic responses to SSRIs [5]. Their immediate activation by serotonin (5-HT) changes the activity of both granule cells and parvalbumin (PV) neurons and initiates the antidepressant response [5]. The activation of PV interneurons promotes the survival and development of newborn granule cells [6], and this process is associated with chronic SSRI treatment [3], but whether PV neurons are directly regulated by 5-HT has not been determined.
Materials and methods
Cell culture
80% confluent N2A cells (0.5 × 106 cells/well) were transfected with a plasmid expressing the mouse 5-HT5A gene (4 μg DNA/well). Next day, 5-HT was pre-incubated for 30 min and forskolin was co-incubated for 15 min. Protein concentration was determined using BCA (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA). cAMP was determined by immunoassay kit (Assay Designs, Ann Arbor, MI). Baseline cAMP levels were 7.47 ± 1.34 pmol/mg protein.
For the determination of Ser 503 pKv phosphorylation level by Western blot, HEK293 cells (4 × 105 cells/well) were transiently transfected with a plasmid expressing the mouse Kv3.1β (2 μg DNA/well). The following day, cells were pre-incubated with okadaic acid (20 nM final concentration) for 15 min. Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (pma, 100 nM) and forskolin (50 μM) were added for 5 min. The cells were washed twice with PBS and immediately lysed in lysis buffer with protease and phosphatase inhibitor cocktails. 20 μg protein was loaded for Western Blot analysis. Kv3.1β and phospho-Kv3.1β were detected using mouse anti- Kv3.1β (UC DAVIS, 75–041), and rabbit anti- Ser-503 Kv3.1β (Phosphosolutions, p1550-503).
Animals
All procedures were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committees of the Rockefeller University. Animals were maintained on a C57/Bl6N background and were housed in a 12-hour light/ dark interval with food and water ad-libitum. CCKTRAP, PVTRAP and GADTRAP mouse lines were generated by crossing mice expressing loxP-stop-loxP-EGFP-RPL10a sequence in the Eef1α1 promoter (EEF1A1–LSL.EGFPL10) [7] with the respective (CCKtm1.1(cre)Zjh/J), (Pvalbtm1(cre)Arbr/J) and (GAD2tm2(cre)Zjh/J) Cre lines. TRAP qPCR analyses including mRNA isolation, cDNA amplification, qPCR analysis of mRNA levels were as previously described [5]. 5-HT5A floxed mice were generated by introducing loxP sites in the promoter and exon 1 of htr5a. Animals were crossed with PVCre (Pvalbtm1(cre)Arbr/J) mice. The modified gene sequences were determined using Southern blot. The functionality of the floxed mice was validated by breeding them with NestinCre mice (B6.Cg(SJL)-TN (NesCre)1Kln). The resulting loss of mRNA expression of htr5a in the Cre positive but not in the negative offspring was confirmed using semi-quantitative qPCR. Females and males were used for immunohistochemical and biochemical studies and males for behavioral studies.
Protein level of 5-HT5AR
The two hippocampi were pooled from each freshly dissected mouse and the membrane fraction was isolated using the Mem Per Plus kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA). Protein concentration was determined using the BCA protein assay (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA). 20 μg protein was loaded on 4–12% Bis-TRIS gels and were transferred to a PVDF membrane. Proteins were detected using antibodies for 5-HT5A (LifeSpan Biosciences, Seattle, WA), β-Actin and PSD-95 (both from Cell Signaling).
Immunohistochemistry
Staining and analysis of 5-HT5A and Ser503 phospho Kv3.1β (pKv3.1β) were done for all samples at the same time using commercial antibodies against 5-HT5A (LifeSpan Biosciences, LS-A2119), Ser503 phospho Kv3.1β (Phosphosolutions, p1550-503), and PV (Sigma Aldrich, P0388). For detection, secondary Alexa goat anti- mouse or goat anti-rabbit were used (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA). Auto fluorescence was used to detect mCherry and cell nuclei were detected using DRAQ5 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA). 4–6 coronal sections of 80 μm thickness were stained per antibody per mouse. To quantify the number of PV cells co-expressing 5-HT5A and pKv3.1β, the pixel mean value of 5-HT5A or pKv3.1β inside a PV cell was divided by its level outside the cell, using a custom written Matlab code [5]. A total of 24.2 ± 3.79 PV+ cells of the sub-granular zone of the ventral dentate gyrus were used per mouse. Cells with 5-HT5A, pKv3.1β mean pixel values above 140% of the background were considered immunopositive.
Behavioral assays
Behavioral tests were conducted by a researcher unaware of the genotype, as previously described [5]. Chronic treatment consisted of 18 days of free drinking of fluoxetine (0.167 mg/ml)/saccharine (1%) mixture or saccharine alone (as vehicle). Acute fluoxetine (7.5 mg/kg) or saline (as vehicle) was administered intraperitoneally, 15 min before the test. For chemogenetic studies, one dose of clozapine N-oxide (4 mg/kg in saline, Sigma Aldrich, C0832) was injected intraperitoneally 30 min before the test.
Electrophysiology
Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from PV neurons were performed as described in the Extended Data Supplementary Methods section.
Statistical analysis
Unless mentioned otherwise, all data are expressed as means ± s.e.m. Sample size was chosen based on previous reports to ensure adequate power. Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 5/8.0.1. In all experiments, P < 0.05 was considered significant.
Results
To investigate the presence of 5-HT receptors on hippocampal PV neurons, we used a translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP) approach and generated PV-TRAP conditional knock-in mice. 5-HT5A receptors are enriched in hippocampal PV neurons (Fig. 1a), but not in CCK- or in other GAD65-expressing cells (Fig. 1b). This distribution of serotonin receptors is true only for the 5-HT5A receptor. Remarkably, using whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in acute hippocampal slices from DG PV neurons, acute application of 5-HT (1–100 µM) in basal conditions did not produce any change in the membrane potential (Fig. 1c, d; Extended Data Fig. 1a, b). However, after 3 weeks of chronic treatment with the SSRI fluoxetine (Flx; 0.167 mg/ml in drinking water), application of 5-HT led to a hyperpolarizing response of the membrane potential of PV neurons (Fig. 1c, d). This response to 5-HT was blocked by the 5-HT5A receptor antagonist SB 699,551 and was abolished in mice in which the 5-HT5A receptor was conditionally deleted from PV neurons (cKO) both before and after the antidepressant treatment (Fig. 1c, d). Fluoxetine treatment had no effect on either 5-HT5A receptor mRNA or protein immunolabeling in PV neurons (Fig. 1e–g), but resulted in an increase in 5-HT5A level at the membrane fraction of the hippocampal lysate (Fig. 1h, i), suggesting a possible translocation of the receptor to the plasma membrane in response to chronic fluoxetine.
We next examined the effect of 5-HT, acting through 5-HT5A receptors, on the physiology of DG PV neurons by using whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in acute hippocampal slices (Fig. 2; Extended Data Fig. 1c–h). We observed that application of 5-HT decreases the firing frequency of these cells in wild-type (WT) mice after fluoxetine treatment, but not in vehicle-treated WT mice or in the cKO mice (Fig. 2a–c and Extended Data Fig. 2a). Furthermore, this effect was partially reversed by blocking the 5-HT5A receptors with SB 699,551 (Fig. 2a, b and Extended Data Fig. 2a), whereas 5-HT2A receptors did not influence the firing of these neurons (Extended Data Fig. 2b). It was shown previously that 5-HT5A acts through G-protein-coupled inwardly rectifying potassium channels (GIRKs) [8, 9]. However, application of 5-HT (30 µM) had no effect on the amplitude of the GIRK current in DG PV neurons from either vehicle- or fluoxetine-treated WT or cKO mice (Extended Data Fig. 3a).
Since the excitability of PV neurons is highly modulated by Kv3 potassium channels which are highly specific to and abundant in these neurons [10], we next investigated the effect of 5-HT on the amplitude of the Kv current before and after fluoxetine treatment. Application of 5-HT reduced the amplitude of Kv currents by almost 50 % in DG PV neurons from fluoxetine-treated WT mice, with no effect on vehicle-treated WT or cKO mice (Fig. 2d–f and Extended Data Fig. 3b), suggesting that the effect of 5-HT on the firing rate of PV neurons regulates the activity of Kv channels through 5-HT5A receptors.
It has been reported that the phosphorylation of Kv3.1β at serine 503 by protein kinase C (PKC) leads to a reduction in neuronal firing [11]. To study whether chronic SSRIs could modulate the Kv current by regulating the phosphorylation level of the channel, we next quantified the levels of pKv3.1β in the DG PV cells of vehicle- and fluoxetine-treated WT and cKO mice and observed a significant increase in the fraction of PV cells expressing pKv3.1β in WT mice after treatment with fluoxetine (Fig. 2g, h). Furthermore, this increase in the expression of the phosphorylated form of Kv3.1β correlated with the time-course for the appearance of the effects of 5-HT on the firing frequency of the PV neurons following fluoxetine treatment (Extended Data Fig. 4).
5-HT5A receptor was shown to have multiple mechanisms including coupling with Gi/Go proteins and its activation could reduce intracellular cAMP levels [12]. To measure the influence of 5-HT5A on cAMP levels, we used an in vitro approach and treated N2A cells previously transfected with 5-HT5A receptors with different concentrations of 5-HT. The increase in cAMP levels induced by the addition of forskolin was gradually reduced by increasing concentrations of 5-HT (Fig. 3a), suggesting that activation of 5-HT5A might inhibit the activity of Protein Kinase A (PKA). We next tested how changes in PKA activity might influence the phosphorylation of Kv channel. It has been reported that the phosphorylation of Kv3.1β channels is inhibited by protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) [13]. Since activation of PKA increases PP2A activity [14], we next tested the idea that cAMP signaling could attenuate the phosphorylation of Kv3.1β. Indeed, in HEK293 cells, treatment with the adenylyl cyclase activator forskolin reduced the amount of the phosphorylated Kv3.1β (pKv3.1β) that was induced by Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), a PKC activator, and this reduction was reversed by the addition of the PP2A inhibitor, okadaic acid (Fig. 3b), indicating that PKA and PKC act in antagonism on the phosphorylation and function of Kv3.1β channels. Moreover, in whole-cell patch-clamp experiments, the addition of PMA decreased the amplitude of the Kv current in DG PV neurons from fluoxetine-treated WT mice, with 5-HT having no further effects (Fig. 3c, d), further supporting the idea that over the course of chronic SSRI treatment, activation of the membrane bound- Gi-coupled 5-HT5AR would lower cAMP levels and disinhibit the phosphorylation of Kv3.1β at serine 503 (Fig. 3e).
We next studied the role of the 5-HT5A receptors in PV neurons in regulating the behavioral response to SSRIs. Chronic SSRI treatment markedly reduced the immobility of WT mice in the forced swim test (FST) but failed to show an effect in the cKO mice (Fig. 4a). In the tail suspension test (TST), chronic fluoxetine treatment decreased the immobility of WT mice but did not induce any behavioral improvement in the cKO mice (Fig. 4b). In the novelty suppressed feeding test (NSF), a test associated with the beneficial effects of antidepressants in the DG [3], chronic fluoxetine treatment reduced the latency to approach the food pellet by WT mice, but not that by the cKOs (Fig. 4c). On the contrary, a single acute injection of fluoxetine produced a similar behavioral response in both WT and cKO mice (Fig. 4d, e), supporting the idea that 5-HT5ARs are essential only for the chronic antidepressant response. The daily consumption of fluoxetine and the amount of the food pellet consumed in the NSF test were not different in 5-HT5A cKO relative to that in WT mice, ruling out metabolic deficits in these mice (Extended Fig. 5).
To confirm the role of 5-HT5AR in DG PV neurons in mediating the behavioral response to chronic SSRIs, we used viral mediated gene delivery system to induced the levels of 5-HT5A in DG PV cells in control animals as well as to restore its expression in these cells from cKO mice. To this end, PV Cre control mice or 5-HT5A cKO mice were stereotaxically injected with AAV-Flex expressing either GFP or 5-HT5A constructs to the DG (Fig. 4f). Immunostaining experiments confirmed the spatial and temporal specificity of the expression of these transgenes (Fig. 4g–j). Importantly, restoring 5-HT5A level in PV cells in cKO mice rescued the antidepressant response to chronic fluoxetine treatment (Fig. 4k–m), whereas induction of 5-HT5AR in DG PV cells of WT mice did not alter the effect by the SSRI (Fig. 4k–m), supporting the idea that the functionality of this receptor in PV cells of the DG is essential in mediating the delayed antidepressant response to chronic SSRIs.
To study how changes in cAMP signaling in PV cells might affect the behavioral response to chronic antidepressant treatments, we used a chemogenetic approach and infected PV DG cells with rAAV2/hsyn-DIO- viruses with either hM4D (Gi)-mCherry or rM3D (Gs)-mCherry DREADDs (Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs), or with one that only expresses mCherry, as control (Fig. 5a). Immunolabeling study conducted 21 days after a bilateral delivery of the Gs-DREADD virus to the DG confirmed the specific expression of the mCherry protein in PV cells throughout the vDG (Fig. 5b). Visual inspection identified co-expression of PV in 84/84 of mCherry immunopositive cells (Fig. 5c). Patch clamp recordings confirmed the functionality of the DREADD receptors in PV cells, and showed depolarization or hyperpolarization of the membrane potential of PV cells infected with either Gs- or Gi-DREADDs respectively, in response to clozapine N-oxide (CNO, 2 µM), the ligand of the DREADD receptors (Fig. 5d). To test the effect of PV cell activation on the behavioral responsivity to SSRIs, mice were subjected to one injection of CNO (4 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) 30 min before the FST following 18-days of fluoxetine (Fig. 5e). Chronic antidepressant treatment resulted in reduced immobility in mCherry- and Gi-DREADD-treated mice. In contrast, CNO increased the immobility in Gs-DREADD injected mice (Fig. 5f), supporting the idea that the inhibition of PV cells is required for the responsivity to chronic SSRIs.
Discussion
Here, we describe a role for 5-HT5AR in mediating the delayed antidepressant action of SSRIs by modulating the activity of PV hippocampal neurons. 5-HT5A receptors are expressed exclusively in the brain, mainly in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum [15, 16]. Although this 5-HTR isoform was associated with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and unipolar depression [15, 17], research on its role has been hindered by the lack of specific agonists. On the basis of our findings, 5-HT5A receptor-selective ligands might show utility in the treatment of depression.
The only ion channel previously reported to be regulated by 5-HT5A was a GIRK rectifier [8, 9]. However, here we found that, in DG PV cells, 5-HT5A modulates the function of Kv3.1β. A similar mechanism was previously shown for other 5-HTRs, including 5-HT1B and 5-HT2A receptors that inhibit Kv channels in smooth muscle, partly by mediating changes in the phosphorylation of the channel [18]. The lack of effect by 5-HT on GIRK conductance in PV cells suggests that the signaling pathway for this receptor is cell-type-specific. Moreover, in contrast to the immediate activity of 5-HT5A in regulating cAMP level in transfected cells as well as on GIRK in cortical cells, the activity of 5-HT5A in DG PV cells requires chronic SSRIs treatment, indicating that both the coupling of 5-HT5A as well as the regulation of its surface level are cell-type and circuit-specific [9].
Several 5-HT receptor isoforms in DG cells have been implicated in the behavioral response to chronic SSRIs in different neuronal populations, but the behavioral response to chronic SSRIs coincides with an increase in the activity of 5-HTRs only in PV cells [4, 5, 19]. In addition to the identification of 5-HT5A in PV cells, we previously showed that 5-HT1B, 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C are enriched in CCK cells and we characterized the role of 5-HT2A in mediating the chronic response to SSRIs by inhibiting CCK cells in the DG. In contrast to the delayed onset of 5-HT5A signaling in PV cells, 5-HT2A signaling in CCK cells regulated the function of GIRK channels and mediated hyperpolarization in CCK cells in response to 5-HT exposure in mice that are naïve to SSRIs. Further, the response by 5-HT2A in CCK cells was abolished after chronic SSRI treatment, and this loss of function was mediated by transcriptional downregulation of the 5-HT2A gene. In contrast, our current study found that the expression level of 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C is not enriched in PV cells, suggesting that these receptors are not present in PV-expressing cells. Furthermore, chronic SSRI did not up-regulate the mRNA level of any 5-HTR in PV cells. Our TRAP and immunocytochemistry data support the idea that 5-HT5A is the only 5-HTR expressed in PV cells. Electrophysiological experiments showed that this receptor is initially silent and becomes functional only after chronic SSRI treatment. Furthermore, the lack of modulation of Kv current by PKC in PV cells from vehicle-treated mice supports the idea that the PKC signaling that regulates this channel in PV cells is activated only after chronic SSRIs.
In line with the idea that reducing cAMP signaling in PV cells by 5-HT5A is required for the delayed response to SSRIs, the activation of cAMP signaling in PV neurons by Gs-DREADD attenuated the behavioral response to the SSRI. Interestingly, inhibiting PV cells by Gi-DREADD did not improve the immobility relative to that in the mCherry-treated mice, suggesting that the endogenous 5-HT5A signaling is sufficient in attenuating cAMP signaling in these cells after chronic SSRI treatment. This is in line with the fact that the viral-mediated upregulation of 5-HT5A in WT mice did not improve the response to SSRI relative to that by the control virus.
While 5-HT signaling in PV-expressing DG cells is required for the response to chronic SSRIs, 5-HT signaling in CCK expressing DG cells mediates both the initial as well as the delayed responses to these drugs [5]. This is mediated by the activation of 5-HT1B and 5-HT2A receptors, which synergistically inhibit the neurotransmission from CCK cells as well as their activity [5]. Importantly, the delayed activation of the 5-HT5A receptors in PV cells after chronic SSRI treatment coincides with the transcriptional down-regulation of the 5-HT1B and 5-HT2A receptors in CCK cells [5]. Taken together, these data support a revised monoaminergic hypothesis in which SSRIs achieve their antidepressant response by acting on different receptors and cell types in a temporally, rather than spatially, orchestrated fashion.
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We are grateful to Jodi Gresack for valuable suggestions on behavioral studies and to Oleh Krupa, Chelsea Daniels, and Jinah Lee for their technical assistance. This work was supported by The JPB foundation (PG), The Leon Black Family Foundation (PG), and by the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity Grant W81XWH-14-0390 (YS).
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Sagi, Y., Medrihan, L., George, K. et al. Emergence of 5-HT5A signaling in parvalbumin neurons mediates delayed antidepressant action. Mol Psychiatry 25, 1191–1201 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0379-3
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