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What could be the mechanism of enduring synaptic efficacies despite the fast turnover of proteins at synapses? The de-novo synthesis of plasticity related proteins may partially provide the answer. However, the newly synthesized proteins must be activated before they are functional which requires a persistent signal of second messenger. In contrast, to conventional kinases the PKMζ is an autonomous and constitutively active kinase, which does not require a second messenger for its sustained activity. Previous experimental results have shown that inhibiting PKMζ activity can effectively reverse the established L-LTP (3–5 hr in slices and 22 hrs in vivo) [1-3]. Here, we explore a question of what could be the mechanism to regulate the PKMζ activity during the maintenance of LLTP. We propose a self-sustained regulation of PKMζ activity through another autonomously active kinase PDK1. Here, our specific instantiation of an activity regulation loop is the PKMζ-PDK1 molecular pair. The PDK1 regulates the PKMζ activity and its stability through a phosphorylation cycle [4]. We show that the PKMζ-PDK1 loop acts as a bistable switch. Our results imply that L-LTP induction should produce an increase in the total amount of PKMζ at active synapses, and this increase in PKMζ is maintained through activity regulation in the enduring from Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2008 Portland, OR, USA. 19–24 July 2008

The self-sustained regulation of PKMζ activity during the maintenance of L-LTP