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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">The Dopamine Metabolite 3-Methoxytyramine Is a Neuromodulator</title><author><name sortKey="Sotnikova, Tatyana D" sort="Sotnikova, Tatyana D" uniqKey="Sotnikova T" first="Tatyana D." last="Sotnikova">Tatyana D. Sotnikova</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Beaulieu, Jean Martin" sort="Beaulieu, Jean Martin" uniqKey="Beaulieu J" first="Jean-Martin" last="Beaulieu">Jean-Martin Beaulieu</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, CRULRG/Université Laval, Québec, Canada</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Espinoza, Stefano" sort="Espinoza, Stefano" uniqKey="Espinoza S" first="Stefano" last="Espinoza">Stefano Espinoza</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Masri, Bernard" sort="Masri, Bernard" uniqKey="Masri B" first="Bernard" last="Masri">Bernard Masri</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff4"><addr-line>INSERM U 858 - I2MR, Toulouse, France</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zhang, Xiaodong" sort="Zhang, Xiaodong" uniqKey="Zhang X" first="Xiaodong" last="Zhang">Xiaodong Zhang</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Salahpour, Ali" sort="Salahpour, Ali" uniqKey="Salahpour A" first="Ali" last="Salahpour">Ali Salahpour</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff6"><addr-line>Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Barak, Larry S" sort="Barak, Larry S" uniqKey="Barak L" first="Larry S." last="Barak">Larry S. Barak</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Caron, Marc G" sort="Caron, Marc G" uniqKey="Caron M" first="Marc G." last="Caron">Marc G. Caron</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Gainetdinov, Raul R" sort="Gainetdinov, Raul R" uniqKey="Gainetdinov R" first="Raul R." last="Gainetdinov">Raul R. Gainetdinov</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">20976142</idno><idno type="pmc">2956650</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956650</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:2956650</idno><idno type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452</idno><date when="2010">2010</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">000851</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">000851</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">The Dopamine Metabolite 3-Methoxytyramine Is a Neuromodulator</title><author><name sortKey="Sotnikova, Tatyana D" sort="Sotnikova, Tatyana D" uniqKey="Sotnikova T" first="Tatyana D." last="Sotnikova">Tatyana D. Sotnikova</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Beaulieu, Jean Martin" sort="Beaulieu, Jean Martin" uniqKey="Beaulieu J" first="Jean-Martin" last="Beaulieu">Jean-Martin Beaulieu</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, CRULRG/Université Laval, Québec, Canada</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Espinoza, Stefano" sort="Espinoza, Stefano" uniqKey="Espinoza S" first="Stefano" last="Espinoza">Stefano Espinoza</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Masri, Bernard" sort="Masri, Bernard" uniqKey="Masri B" first="Bernard" last="Masri">Bernard Masri</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff4"><addr-line>INSERM U 858 - I2MR, Toulouse, France</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zhang, Xiaodong" sort="Zhang, Xiaodong" uniqKey="Zhang X" first="Xiaodong" last="Zhang">Xiaodong Zhang</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Salahpour, Ali" sort="Salahpour, Ali" uniqKey="Salahpour A" first="Ali" last="Salahpour">Ali Salahpour</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff6"><addr-line>Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Barak, Larry S" sort="Barak, Larry S" uniqKey="Barak L" first="Larry S." last="Barak">Larry S. Barak</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Caron, Marc G" sort="Caron, Marc G" uniqKey="Caron M" first="Marc G." last="Caron">Marc G. Caron</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Gainetdinov, Raul R" sort="Gainetdinov, Raul R" uniqKey="Gainetdinov R" first="Raul R." last="Gainetdinov">Raul R. Gainetdinov</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">PLoS ONE</title><idno type="eISSN">1932-6203</idno><imprint><date when="2010">2010</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>Dopamine (3-hydroxytyramine) is a well-known catecholamine neurotransmitter involved in multiple physiological functions including movement control. Here we report that the major extracellular metabolite of dopamine, 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT), can induce behavioral effects in a dopamine-independent manner and these effects are partially mediated by the trace amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1). Unbiased <italic>in vivo</italic> screening of putative trace amine receptor ligands for potential effects on the movement control revealed that 3-MT infused in the brain is able to induce a complex set of abnormal involuntary movements in mice acutely depleted of dopamine. In normal mice, the central administration of 3-MT caused a temporary mild hyperactivity with a concomitant set of abnormal movements. Furthermore, 3-MT induced significant ERK and CREB phosphorylation in the mouse striatum, signaling events generally related to PKA-mediated cAMP accumulation. In mice lacking TAAR1, both behavioral and signaling effects of 3-MT were partially attenuated, consistent with the ability of 3-MT to activate TAAR1 receptors and cause cAMP accumulation as well as ERK and CREB phosphorylation in cellular assays. Thus, 3-MT is not just an inactive metabolite of DA, but a novel neuromodulator that in certain situations may be involved in movement control. Further characterization of the physiological functions mediated by 3-MT may advance understanding of the pathophysiology and pharmacology of brain disorders involving abnormal dopaminergic transmission, such as Parkinson's disease, dyskinesia and schizophrenia.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Molinoff, Pb" uniqKey="Molinoff P">PB Molinoff</name></author><author><name sortKey="Axelrod, J" uniqKey="Axelrod J">J Axelrod</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Zhou, Qy" uniqKey="Zhou Q">QY Zhou</name></author><author><name sortKey="Palmiter, Rd" uniqKey="Palmiter R">RD Palmiter</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Carlsson, A" uniqKey="Carlsson A">A Carlsson</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Fon, Ea" uniqKey="Fon E">EA Fon</name></author><author><name sortKey="Pothos, En" 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">PLoS One</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">plos</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">plosone</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>PLoS ONE</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">1932-6203</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Public Library of Science</publisher-name><publisher-loc>San Francisco, USA</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">20976142</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">2956650</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10-PONE-RA-18085R2</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline"><subject>Neuroscience/Behavioral Neuroscience</subject><subject>Neuroscience/Neurobiology of Disease and Regeneration</subject><subject>Neuroscience/Neuronal Signaling Mechanisms</subject><subject>Physiology/Motor Systems</subject><subject>Physiology/Neuronal Signaling Mechanisms</subject><subject>Neurological Disorders/Movement Disorders</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The Dopamine Metabolite 3-Methoxytyramine Is a Neuromodulator</article-title><alt-title alt-title-type="running-head">3-MT Is a Neuromodulator</alt-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sotnikova</surname><given-names>Tatyana D.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Beaulieu</surname><given-names>Jean-Martin</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Espinoza</surname><given-names>Stefano</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Masri</surname><given-names>Bernard</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"><sup>4</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zhang</surname><given-names>Xiaodong</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5"><sup>5</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Salahpour</surname><given-names>Ali</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6"><sup>6</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Barak</surname><given-names>Larry S.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Caron</surname><given-names>Marc G.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gainetdinov</surname><given-names>Raul R.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><addr-line>Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><label>2</label><addr-line>Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><label>3</label><addr-line>Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, CRULRG/Université Laval, Québec, Canada</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff4"><label>4</label><addr-line>INSERM U 858 - I2MR, Toulouse, France</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff5"><label>5</label><addr-line>Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff6"><label>6</label><addr-line>Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada</addr-line></aff><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Bartolomucci</surname><given-names>Alessandro</given-names></name><role>Editor</role><xref ref-type="aff" rid="edit1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="edit1">University of Minnesota, United States of America</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail: <email>raul.gainetdinov@iit.it</email></corresp><fn fn-type="con"><p>Conceived and designed the experiments: TDS RRG. Performed the experiments: TDS JMB SE BM XZ AS LSB RRG. Analyzed the data: TDS JMB SE BM XZ AS LSB RRG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TDS JMB SE BM XZ AS LSB MGC RRG. Wrote the paper: TDS SE MGC RRG.</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2010</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>18</day><month>10</month><year>2010</year></pub-date><volume>5</volume><issue>10</issue><elocation-id>e13452</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>19</day><month>4</month><year>2010</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>20</day><month>9</month><year>2010</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Sotnikova et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</copyright-statement></permissions><abstract><p>Dopamine (3-hydroxytyramine) is a well-known catecholamine neurotransmitter involved in multiple physiological functions including movement control. Here we report that the major extracellular metabolite of dopamine, 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT), can induce behavioral effects in a dopamine-independent manner and these effects are partially mediated by the trace amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1). Unbiased <italic>in vivo</italic> screening of putative trace amine receptor ligands for potential effects on the movement control revealed that 3-MT infused in the brain is able to induce a complex set of abnormal involuntary movements in mice acutely depleted of dopamine. In normal mice, the central administration of 3-MT caused a temporary mild hyperactivity with a concomitant set of abnormal movements. Furthermore, 3-MT induced significant ERK and CREB phosphorylation in the mouse striatum, signaling events generally related to PKA-mediated cAMP accumulation. In mice lacking TAAR1, both behavioral and signaling effects of 3-MT were partially attenuated, consistent with the ability of 3-MT to activate TAAR1 receptors and cause cAMP accumulation as well as ERK and CREB phosphorylation in cellular assays. Thus, 3-MT is not just an inactive metabolite of DA, but a novel neuromodulator that in certain situations may be involved in movement control. Further characterization of the physiological functions mediated by 3-MT may advance understanding of the pathophysiology and pharmacology of brain disorders involving abnormal dopaminergic transmission, such as Parkinson's disease, dyskinesia and schizophrenia.</p></abstract><counts><page-count count="9"></page-count></counts></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>Introduction</title><p>The phenylethylamine derivative dopamine (DA) plays an important role in the brain as a neurotransmitter that mediates many critical functions including motor control <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Molinoff1">[1]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Zhou1">[2]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Carlsson1">[3]</xref>. During DA synthesis, L-DOPA is produced from the amino acid tyrosine by tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and further decarboxylated by L-aromatic acid decarboxylase (L-AADC) to yield DA <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Molinoff1">[1]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Zhou1">[2]</xref>. Synthesized DA is accumulated in synaptic vesicles <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Fon1">[4]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Wang1">[5]</xref>, thus becoming available for release into the extracellular space. After release and activation of its receptors, DA undergoes dilution by diffusion, but also becomes subject to metabolic degradation by catechol-o-methyl transferase (COMT) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Molinoff1">[1]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Mannisto1">[6]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Westerink1">[7]</xref>. This process yields the major extracellular metabolite, 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT), that is generally considered to be a biologically inactive compound. At the same time, a large portion of released DA is re-captured into dopaminergic terminals by the plasma membrane dopamine transporter (DAT) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Amara1">[8]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Giros1">[9]</xref>, thus providing a large intracellullar storage pool of recycled DA available for subsequent re-release <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Jones1">[10]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Gainetdinov1">[11]</xref>.</p><p>By using mice lacking the dopamine transporter (DAT-KO mice) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Giros1">[9]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Gainetdinov1">[11]</xref>, we have developed a model of acute dopamine deficiency, DDD mice (dopamine-deficient DAT-KO mice) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova2">[13]</xref>. In the absence of DAT-mediated recycling mechanisms in DAT-KO mice, neuronal DA levels become entirely dependent on its de novo synthesis <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Jones1">[10]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Gainetdinov1">[11]</xref>. Pharmacological inhibition of DA synthesis in these mice by the irreversible inhibitor of TH α-methyl-p-tyrosine (αMT) induces prolonged depletion of dopamine in the major dopaminergic regions of the brain such as striatum. This acute DA deficiency results in the development of a pronounced behavioral phenotype manifested as severe akinesia and rigidity. As expected, the movement in DDD mice can be restored by administration of the DA precursor L-DOPA or by treatment with non-selective DA agonists <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova2">[13]</xref>. We took advantage of having this simple and reversible model of severe DA deficiency to search for alternative treatments that can affect movement control in the absence of DA <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova3">[14]</xref>. Interestingly, several amphetamine derivatives counteracted behavioral manifestations of DA deficiency in DDD mice in a DA-independent manner. This led us to suggest that DA and DAT-independent targets of amphetamines may be responsible for these effects <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>. Among the several known targets of amphetamine derivatives, is the newly identified, G protein-coupled trace amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1, also known as trace amine receptor 1, TA1) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Borowsky1">[15]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Bunzow1">[16]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Lindemann1">[17]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Grandy1">[18]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova4">[19]</xref>. Intriguingly, TAAR1 can be activated <italic>in vitro</italic> not only by amphetamines but also by many other phenylethylamine derivatives including trace amines themselves and monoamine metabolites, including 3-MT <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Bunzow1">[16]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Wainscott1">[20]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Hu1">[22]</xref>. While biogenic trace amines such as tyramine, tryptamine, β-phenylethylamine, octopamine and synephrine are found in various tissues in many species in the kingdom <italic>Animalia</italic>, only tyramine and octopamine have been recognized as neurotransmitters in invertebrates. Both of these are critically involved in regulation of various physiological functions such as circadian rhythms, emotional behaviors, cardiovascular regulation, learning, memory and movement <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Grandy1">[18]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Osborne1">[23]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Roeder1">[24]</xref>. To explore if trace amines or other endogenous compounds active on TAAR1 could be involved in movement control in mammals, we performed an unbiased screen of several compounds that activate TAAR1 for their potential effects on locomotor activity in akinetic DDD mice <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova2">[13]</xref>. Unexpectedly, we observed potent behavioral and biochemical effects of the dopamine metabolite 3-MT that were partially dependent on TAAR1. These observations indicate that 3-MT is not just an inactive metabolite of DA but a neuromodulator that may play a role of its own in motor control.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods" id="s2"><title>Methods</title><sec id="s2a"><title>Animals</title><p>DAT-KO and TAAR1 knockout (TAAR1-KO) mice of mixed C57BL/6J x 129Sv/J backgrounds were generated as described <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Giros1">[9]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>. All studies were conducted with approved protocols from the Duke University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and were in accordance with the NIH guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. 3–6 month old wild type (WT) and knockout (KO) mice of both sexes and male C57BL/6J mice were used in this study.</p></sec><sec id="s2b"><title>Drugs</title><p>Compounds or saline (0.9% NaCl) were administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) or subcutaneously (s.c.) in a volume of 10 ml/kg or intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) in a volume of 4 µl. For i.c.v. administration compounds were dissolved in artificial cerebrospinal fluid and infused into the right lateral ventricle at a rate of 1 µl/min as described previously <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Beaulieu1">[25]</xref>. Corresponding vehicle solutions were infused to respective control animals. All the compounds used were from Sigma (St. Louis, MO).</p></sec><sec id="s2c"><title>Behavioral methods</title><p>Locomotor activity of DAT-KO and WT mice was measured in an Omnitech CCDigiscan (Accuscan Instruments, Inc. Columbus, Ohio USA) monitor under conditions of bright illumination <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Gainetdinov2">[26]</xref>. Activity parameters were continuously monitored and tallied at 5 min intervals. To evaluate the effects of compounds in DDD mice, DAT-KO mice were placed into activity monitor chambers for 30 min and then treated systemically with αMT (250 mg/kg, i.p.). 1 h after αMT administration a compound or combination of drugs was injected systemically or i.c.v. and various parameters of locomotor activity were monitored for up to 3 h. In cumulative dosing experiments, animals were treated with increasing doses of compounds with a one hour interval. To assess effects of 3-MT in normal and TAAR1-KO mice, the animals were placed in the locomotor activity chamber and 30 min later various doses of 3-MT were administered i.c.v.. To perform i.c.v. administration in this paradigm, habituated mice were removed from the experimental chamber, briefly restrained, i.c.v. injection cannula was placed into the previously implanted (one week before) guide cannula and infusion of 3-MT or vehicle (artifical CSF) was performed for 4 minutes when animal was freely moving in a home cage. After infusion, animals were put back into experimental chamber and behavior was monitored for 90 min after administration.</p></sec><sec id="s2d"><title><italic>In vitro</italic> transfection of human TAAR1 and cAMP Assay</title><p>All cell culture reagents and buffers were from Gibco and Sigma. Human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK-293) cells were maintained in Minimum Essential Medium Eagle (MEM) medium supplemented with 10% (vol/vol) of FBS, 2 mM glutamine and 0.05 mg/ml of Gentamicin at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere at 95% air and 5% CO2. Transient transfections were performed 24 h after cell seeding using calcium phosphate protocol. A modified version of human TAAR1(hTAAR1) in which the first nine amino acids of the β2-adrenergic receptor were added at N-terminus of hTAAR1 to enable plasma membrane expression of the receptor was used as previously described <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>. 5 µg of hTAAR1 or of an empty vector for each ml of transfection solution were used. To investigate effects of tyramine and 3-MT at hTAAR1 we measured the cAMP response using the standard cAMP column assay <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Salomon1">[27]</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s2e"><title>Antibodies and Western Blot Analyses</title><p>The antiphospho-ERK1/2 (Thr-202/Tyr-204), anti-ERK, anti-phospho-CREB (Thr-34) and anti-CREB antibodies were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA). Western blot analyses of brain samples were performed as described in Beaulieu <italic>et al.</italic> <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Beaulieu2">[28]</xref>. Briefly, mice were euthanized by decapitation, after which the heads of the animals were immediately cooled by immersion in liquid nitrogen for 6 s. The right hemisphere striatum was rapidly dissected (within 60 s) on an ice-cold surface and frozen in liquid nitrogen before protein extraction. Tissue samples were homogenized in boiling 1% SDS solution and boiled for 10 min. Protein concentrations were measured using a DC-protein assay (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA). Protein extracts (25 or 50 µg) were separated on 10% SDS/PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. Blots were incubated with primary antibodies overnight at 4°C. Immune complexes were detected using appropriate peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (Jackson Immuno-Research, West Grove, PA) and a chemiluminescent reagent (SuperSignal West-Pico; Pierce Biotechnology, Rockford, IL). Densitometric analysis was performed within the linear range using IMAGEQUANT V1.1 (GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Piscataway, NJ). For quantitative analysis, total proteins were used as loading controls for phosphoprotein signals. In all these experiments, results were normalized to respective controls and presented as means ±SEM.</p><p>To analyze effect of 3-MT on TAAR1-mediated intracellular signaling events in HEK-293 cells, hTAAR1 was expressed as described <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>. After 24 of transfection, cells were lysed with RIPA buffer supplemented with protease (Roche Diagnostic) and phosphatase (Thermo Scientific) inhibitors. After 10 minutes of incubation on ice, lysates were centrifuged for 10 minutes at 13000 rpm and supernatants were collected for protein concentration assay (BCA protein assay kit, Thermo Scientific). 25 µg of protein extract were separated on 10% SDS/PAGE and transferred on nitrocellulose membrane. All primary antibodies were incubated overnight at 4°C. Appropriate peroxidase-conjugate secondary antibodies (Pierce) and chemiluminescent reagents (ECL detection reagent, Amersham) were used. Total protein levels were used as loading controls for phosphoprotein signals. Results were normalized to respective controls.</p></sec><sec id="s2f"><title>Data analysis</title><p>The data are presented as means ± SEM and analyzed using a two-tailed Student's t-test, one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnet's multiple comparison test, two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's HSD test or a two-tailed Mann-Whitney U-test where appropriate.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s3"><title>Results</title><sec id="s3a"><title>Unbiased screen of trace amines and monoamine metabolites for potential effects on movement in DDD mice</title><p>The ability of α-methyl-<italic>p</italic>-tyrosine (αMT), a potent irreversible inhibitor of TH, to selectively deplete brain DA in mice lacking the DAT provided a simple <italic>in vivo</italic> model of DA deficiency to use as a test system to analyze DA-independent actions of various compounds <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>. It should be noted, that while the global nature of DA deficiency may limit the use of this model in studies aimed at deciphering particularities of brain circuitry at normal conditions, it provides certain advantages in studies aimed at uncovering DA-independent mechanisms involved in motor control. Thus, we elected to employ this model to perform an unbiased screen of putative TAAR1 ligands and monoamine metabolites for potential actions on movement control. Briefly, DAT-KO mice were treated with αMT and 1 hour later, when maximal depletion of DA was achieved the tested compounds were administered. In an initial screening, no significant effect on motor control was observed when these compounds were administered systemically (intraperitoneal injection; i.p.) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>. Since many of these compounds have limited capacity to pass the blood-brain barrier (BBB), we administered them intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) using a paradigm of successively increasing the concentration given to a single animal (<xref ref-type="table" rid="pone-0013452-t001">Table 1</xref>). The trace amines p-tyramine, m-tyramine, octopamine, tryptamine, β-phenylethylamine (β-PEA) and monoamine metabolites 4-methoxytyramine (4-MT), metanephrine, normetanephrine, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and homovanillic acid (HVA) caused no significant effect in akinetic DDD mice (<xref ref-type="table" rid="pone-0013452-t001">Table 1</xref>, data not shown). Unexpectedly, the extracellular DA metabolite 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT) induced significant behavioral activation in DDD mice (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g001">Figure 1A</xref>). This activity however, was mostly presented as a set of disorganized abnormal movements that included tremor, head bobbing, straub tail, grooming and abnormal orofacial movements rather than normal forward activity. To verify that this endogenous compound can affect a receptor-mediated cellular signaling mechanism we collected striatal tissue of DDD mice treated with 36 µg of 3-MT (30 min after 3-MT administration) and performed analysis of ERK activity by Western blot. We elected to analyze ERK signaling as it represents one of the most common signaling mechanisms involved in multiple striatal functions, including movement control <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Beaulieu3">[29]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Girault1">[30]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Santini1">[31]</xref>. As presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g001">Figure 1B</xref>, 3-MT caused a significant increase in the level of phosphorylated Erk2, thus indicating that certain receptor-mediated processes in striatal cells are affected by this treatment.</p><fig id="pone-0013452-g001" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452.g001</object-id><label>Figure 1</label><caption><title>3-MT induces behavioral activation and intracellular signaling in the striatum of DA deficient mice.</title><p>(A) Identification of motor actions of 3-MT in DDD mice. DAT-KO mice were treated with αMT (250 mg/kg, i.p.) and 1 h after αMT were challenged repeatedly with increasing concentrations of a drug (interval between treatments is 1 h). 3-MT induced abnormal activation in DDD mice after i.c.v. infusion of both 36 and 180 µg of 3-MT (visual observations), as revealed by the significant effect of 3-MT in measures of horizontal activity at dose 180 µg (cumulative horizontal activity counts for 1 h following infusion of 180 µg 3-MT is 1711.4±580.1 vs. 26.8±11.8 in vehicle-treated group; p<0.05, two-tailed Mann-Whitney U test, n = 6 per group). (B) 3-MT administered at dose of 36 µg, i.c.v. (30 min after infusion) caused significant increase in Erk2 phosphorylation in the striatal tissue of DDD mice (n = 10 per group; ** - p<0.01; Student's t-test).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pone.0013452.g001"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="pone-0013452-t001" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452.t001</object-id><label>Table 1</label><caption><title>Trace amines and monoamine metabolites tested in DDD mice.</title></caption><alternatives><graphic id="pone-0013452-t001-1" xlink:href="pone.0013452.t001"></graphic><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><colgroup span="1"><col align="left" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Trace amines and monoamine metabolites</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Doses</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Number of mice</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Motor effects</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">p-Tyramine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">36 and 360 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">m-Tyramine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">36, 72 and 180 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Octopamine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">36 and 360 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Tryptamine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">36, 72 and 180 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">β-Phenylethylamine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">100 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">200, 400 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4-Methoxytyramine (4-MT)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18, 72 and 180 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Metanephrine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18, 72 and 180 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Normetanephrine</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18, 72 and 360 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">DOPAC</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18, 72 and 360 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">HVA</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">27 and 68 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3-methoxytyramine (3-MT)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">36 and 180 µg, i.c.v.</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">6</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Yes</td></tr></tbody></table></alternatives><table-wrap-foot><fn id="nt101"><label></label><p>Compounds were administered i.c.v. 1 h after αMT treatment (250 mg/kg, i.p.). In cumulative dosing experiments, animals were treated with drugs with interval 1 h.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><p>Furthermore, to directly explore if these motor effects could be mediated via the postulated activation of DA receptors by 3-MT at high concentrations <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-AntkiewiczMichaluk1">[48]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Alachkar1">[49]</xref>, we pre-treated an additional group of DDD mice with a combination of D2 DA receptor antagonist raclopride (2 mg/kg, i.p.) and D1 DA receptor antagonist SCH-23390 (0.1 mg/kg, i.p.) 30 minutes before 3-MT (90 µg) infusion. Infusion of 3-MT at this behaviorally active concentration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g001">Figure 1A</xref>) to saline pre-treated DDD mice caused abnormal movements as evidenced by significantly increased horizontal activity counts in 1 hour period (1097±459 in saline pre-treated 3-MT infused group vs. 50±27 in saline pre-treated vehicle infused controls, * p<0.05; Student's t-test n = 4-6 per group). Since DDD mice demonstrate spontaneous severe akinesia and rigidity <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>, pre-treatment with DA antagonists did not induce additional locomotor effects in vehicle infused controls. Importantly, pre-treatment with DA antagonists did not affect the ability of 3-MT to induce abnormal movements (horizontal activity counts/1 hour: 1259±661 in DA antagonists pre-treated 3-MT infused group vs. 24±2 in DA antagonists pre-treated vehicle infused controls, * p<0.05; Student's t-test, n = 4–6 per group). By comparison, the same pre-treatment protocol involving combination of raclopride and SCH-23390 at relatively high doses completely abolished locomotor-restoring effect of L-DOPA/carbidopa (50/50 mg/kg, i.p.) in DDD mice <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>. Thus, DA receptors are unlikely to be involved in the observed locomotor effects of 3-MT.</p><p>To verify if 3-MT is able to cause similar effects in wild type mice with an intact DA system we tested several doses of 3-MT in C57Bl6 mice. While no effect was observed when 3-MT was infused at doses below 9 µg (data not shown), at 9 µg and higher doses 3-MT dose-dependently caused transient behavioral activation with a complex set of behaviors. In particular, transient hyperactivity and stereotypy, sniffing, grooming, rearing and mild abnormal involuntary movements (AIMs) at the level of limbs was observed after infusion of 9 µg of 3-MT. Similar behaviors were also observed after 18 µg of 3-MT with the additional appearance of tremor as well as oral and whole body AIMs. Further progression of these behaviors to a complex phenotype involving head bobbing, backward walking, prominent orofacial and whole body AIMs as well as minor seizure activity was found with 36 µg of 3-MT. Infusion of higher concentrations of 3-MT caused pronounced seizures in normal mice (data not shown). Examples of behavioral effects of 3-MT (36 µg, 40 min after administration) in normal mice of mixed 129SvJ/C57BL6 background (wild type littermate controls for TAAR1-KO mice) are presented in the Supplemental <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s003">Videos S1</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s004">S2</xref>. Given the extreme complexity and quickly changing nature of this behavioral phenotype in mice we elected to perform unbiased computerized assessment of abnormal movement behaviors in locomotor activity chambers, rather than just simply applying ethological scoring approaches developed for other manifestations of abnormal behavioral activation, such as stereotypies and dyskineisas. Dynamics of behavioral effects of 3-MT in C57BL6 mice at doses 9–36 µg as detected in a computerized locomotor activity monitor by changes in total distance traveled, vertical activity and stereotypy time are presented in the Supplemental <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s001">Figure S1</xref>. Nevertheless, future development of specific ethological scoring system will be necessary to perform careful characterization of these abnormal behaviors induced by 3-MT in more details.</p><p>In addition, to estimate the brain extracellular concentration of 3-MT that could be achieved after i.c.v. administration of 3-MT in C57BL6 mice, we performed <italic>in vivo</italic> microdialysis measurements of 3-MT in the dialysates collected from striatum of freely moving mice following 3-MT infusion into the lateral ventricle. As presented in the Supplemental <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s002">Figure S2</xref>, i.c.v. infusion of 3-MT (9 µg) caused potent elevation of 3-MT concentrations in striatal dialysates with maximal levels approaching 100 nM.</p></sec><sec id="s3b"><title>3-MT activates TAAR1-mediated signaling <italic>in vitr</italic>o</title><p>Since the discovery of the family of trace amine associated receptors (TAARs) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Borowsky1">[15]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Bunzow1">[16]</xref> most interest has been focused on the TAAR1. This Gs-coupled receptor has tantalizing pharmacology and can be activated, at least <italic>in vitro</italic>, by trace amines, amphetamines and several monoamine metabolites <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Grandy1">[18]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova4">[19]</xref>. It has been reported that 3-MT is an agonist of mouse, rat as well as rat-human and mouse-human chimeric versions of this receptor in cellular systems that express TAAR1 mostly intracellularly <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Borowsky1">[15]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Bunzow1">[16]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Lindemann1">[17]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Wainscott1">[20]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Hu1">[22]</xref>. To confirm that 3-MT is able to activate human TAAR1, we employed a recently developed approach to express hTAAR1 at the plasma membranes of HEK cells <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>. Assessment of cAMP accumulation using a bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) assay <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref> and a classical column cAMP assay (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g002">Figure 2</xref>) confirms activity of 3MT at TAAR1 with a potency comparable to tyramine (EC50 for 3-MT is 700±180 nM and for tyramine is 320±100 nM) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g002">Figure 2A</xref>). Furthermore, we performed an analysis of intracellular signaling mechanisms that could mediate the actions of 3-MT on hTAAR1 expressed in HEK cells. 3-MT caused a rapid and prolonged phosphorylation of Erk2 and CREB only in cells expressing hTAAR1 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g002">Figure 2B,C</xref>) thus indicating that a Gs-dependent signaling cascade involving accumulation of cAMP and activation of Erk2 and CREB is likely involved in the action of TAAR1.</p><fig id="pone-0013452-g002" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452.g002</object-id><label>Figure 2</label><caption><title>3-MT induces activation of human TAAR1 in cAMP assay and causes CREB and Erk2 phosphorylation in HEK-293 cells.</title><p>(A) cAMP response to tyramine and 3-MT in cells expressing hTAAR1 receptor. Dowex and Alumina column chromatography was used to measure [3H]-cAMP accumulation in HEK-293 cells transfected with the hTAAR1 receptor and treated with the concentrations of compounds shown in the Figure for 15 minutes at room temperature. Results are the mean ± SEM of two (tyramine) or three (3-MT) independent experiments performed in duplicate. EC50 for tyramine was estimated as 320±100 nM and for 3-MT as 700±180 nM. No effects of tyramine and 3-MT were observed in corresponding Mock cells expressing endogenous receptors only (data not shown). The inserted images obtained with a Zeiss LSM510 confocal microscope show the fluorescence from the immunostaining of HA epitope tagged hTAAR1 receptors expressed at the plasma membrane compartment of non permeabilized HEK-293 cells (left image), and an overlay of the fluorescence on a phase image of the same cells (right image) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>. (B) and (C) Time-course of effect of 3-MT (10 µM) on Erk2 (B) and CREB (C) phosphorylation in HEK-293 cells expressing hTAAR1. hTAAR1 was expressed in cells as described previously <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref> and treated with vehicle or 3-MT (10 µM). The cells were lysed and then analyzed by Western blot for Erk2 and CREB phosphorylation. 3-MT produced time dependent phosphorylation of Erk2 and CREB in cells expressing hTAAR1 while no effects were observed in vehicle-treated controls. A significant effect in comparison to untreated cells (time point 0) was observed at 2, 5, 10 and 20 min time points for ERK2 phosphorylation and at 10 and 20 min periods for CREB phosphorylation (n = 4 independent experiments per group, p<0.05, one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnet's multiple comparison test). No effect of 3-MT was observed in corresponding Mock cells without hTAAR1 expression (data not shown).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pone.0013452.g002"></graphic></fig></sec><sec id="s3c"><title>Effects of 3-MT are reduced in TAAR1-KO mice</title><p>To directly test if TAAR1 is involved in the action of 3-MT we analyzed behavioral and biochemical responses to 3-MT in mice lacking TAAR1 <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Wolinsky1">[32]</xref>. As presented in the <xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g003">Figure 3</xref>, i.c.v. infusion of 3-MT (9,18 and 36 µg) induced a dose-dependent activation of wild type mice with a complex set of often competing abnormal behaviors as reflected by changes in automated measures of movement time, total distance traveled and vertical activity (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g003">Figure 3</xref>, Supplemental <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s003">Videos S1</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s004">S2</xref>). However, in TAAR1-KO mice these effects of 3-MT were reduced (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g003">Figure 3C,D,E</xref>) with the lowest dose (9 µg) being completely inactive in the mutants (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g003">Figure 3A,B</xref>). However at highest dose tested, 3-MT still caused significant behavioral activation in TAAR1 mutants and similar, albeit somewhat reduced in mutants, pattern of abnormal movements was observed in both genotypes after 36 µg of 3-MT (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g003">Figure 3</xref>; visual observations). Furthermore, analysis of Erk2 and CREB phosphorylation in the striatum provoked by an intermediate dose of 3-MT (18 µg) that causes significant behavioral activation in wild type mice (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g003">Figure 3C,D,E</xref>), revealed that these signaling events were significantly reduced in TAAR1 mutants (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g004">Figure 4</xref>). Thus, it is likely that part of the behavioral activation and a significant portion of striatal signaling events triggered by 3-MT are dependent on TAAR1. However, the fact that only a part of 3-MT effects was affected by TAAR1 deficiency strongly suggests that other non TAAR1-mediated mechanisms are also involved in the action of 3-MT.</p><fig id="pone-0013452-g003" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452.g003</object-id><label>Figure 3</label><caption><title>Behavioral effects of 3-MT are reduced in TAAR1-KO mice.</title><p>Administration of 3-MT (9 µg, i.c.v.) to WT mice (A) but not TAAR1-KO mice (B) induced abnormal behavioral activation as reflected by total distance traveled. Analysis of total distance traveled for 60 min after 3-MT administration revealed significant effect of 3-MT versus vehicle treatment (p<0.05; Student's t-test) in WT but not TAAR1-KO mice (Figure 3D). (C, D and E) Dose-dependence of 3-MT-induced complex set of abnormal movements (please see description in the text and Supplemental <xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g001">Figure 1S</xref>) as detected in computerized locomotor activity monitor as changes in movement time (C), total distance traveled (D) and vertical activity (E). Data are presented as cumulative counts for 60 min after 3-MT administration. Two-way ANOVA analysis revealed significant main effects of dose (p = 0.0001) and genotype (p<0.0001), but no significant dose by genotype interaction (p = 0.4) in measures of movement time (C), significant main effects of dose (p = 0.0002), genotype (p<0.0001) and dose by genotype interaction (p = 0.0198) in measures of total distance (D) and significant main effects of dose (p = 0.026) and genotype (p<0.0001) but no significant dose by genotype interaction (p = 0.321) in measures of vertical activity (E). Pair-wise comparisons conducted with post-hoc Tukey's HSD test revealed significant differences between genotypes (* - p<0.05 effect of 3-MT in WTs vs. KOs) and dose (# - p<0.05 effect of 3-MT vs. respective vehicle-treated controls). Please note, that after 36 µg a similar pattern of abnormal movements was observed in both genotypes (visual observations).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pone.0013452.g003"></graphic></fig><fig id="pone-0013452-g004" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0013452.g004</object-id><label>Figure 4</label><caption><title>Striatal signaling effects of 3-MT are reduced in TAAR1-KO mice.</title><p>Effect of 3-MT infusion (18 µg, 30 min after treatment) on Erk2 (A) and CREB (B) phosphorylation in WT and TAAR1-KO mice. 3-MT induced significant phosphorylation of both Erk2 and CREB in WT mice, but not in TAAR1-KO mice (* p<0.05; Student's t-test n = 10 per group).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pone.0013452.g004"></graphic></fig></sec></sec><sec id="s4"><title>Discussion</title><p>In this study we demonstrate that 3-MT, the major product of extracellular dopamine metabolism mediated by COMT, can directly affect behavior and induce intracellular signaling events partially via activation of TAAR1. Importantly, this action of 3-MT does not directly involve dopaminergic transmission and can be observed in mice lacking DA. At the same time, effects of 3-MT are partially reduced in mice lacking TAAR1 indicating a role of TAAR1 in physiological actions of 3-MT. Taken together, these observations suggest that rather than being just an inactive metabolite of extracellular DA, 3-MT is a neuromodulator that at high concentrations can exert physiological actions partially via activating TAAR1.</p><sec id="s4a"><title>3-MT as a neuromodulator</title><p>3-MT is a well known extracellular metabolite of 3-hydroxytyramine/dopamine. Historically, dopamine was considered as a biologically inactive precursor of norepinephrine and only the identification of large concentrations of dopamine in certain brain regions and the direct demonstration of its physiological functions particularly in movement control <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Carlsson2">[33]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Birkmayer1">[34]</xref> firmly established dopamine as the classical monoaminergic neurotransmitter/neuromodulator. A major source of 3-MT is the released dopamine in the extracellular space that is being metabolized via o-methylation by COMT to yield 3-MT <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Molinoff1">[1]</xref>. A predominant mechanism of inactivation of 3-MT is its MAO mediated metabolism to homovanillic acid (HVA), that in turn is cleared from the brain by specific transporters <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Westerink2">[35]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Mori1">[36]</xref>. Since extracellular concentrations of DA are generally found in a low nanomolar range, concentrations of 3-MT at steady state in the brain are also quite low <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Westerink1">[7]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Brown1">[37]</xref>. The fact that 3-MT originates from released dopamine has led to consideration of 3-MT levels as a reflection of DA release. In fact, numerous studies have been performed on the analysis of DA release in various experimental paradigms by assessing accumulation of 3-MT tissue levels in brain tissue, often after blockade of MAO by pargyline <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Westerink1">[7]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Kehr1">[38]</xref>. However, while later in vivo microdialysis studies have generally confirmed the association between extracellular levels of DA and 3-MT <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Brown1">[37]</xref>, the static tissue measures of 3-MT accumulation have proven to be quite inaccurate measures of dynamics of DA release <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Vulto1">[39]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Elverfors1">[40]</xref>.</p><p>In our unbiased screen for potential dopamine-independent actions of putative TAAR1 ligands on the movement control in DDD mice, we failed to detect significant effects of trace amines and major metabolites of monoamines (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>; <xref ref-type="table" rid="pone-0013452-t001">Table 1</xref>). The only exception was 3-MT, which caused a complex set of abnormal movements in DDD mice. It should be noted that while there is a common belief that 3-MT is just an inactive metabolite of dopamine, several groups have reported specific behavioral effects of 3-MT in experimental animals, ranging from 3-MT-induced tremor <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Baker1">[41]</xref>, stereotypies <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Jonas1">[42]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Nakazato1">[43]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Nakazato2">[44]</xref>, hyperactivity <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Nakazato1">[43]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Nakazato2">[44]</xref> and even hypoactivity <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Charlton1">[45]</xref>. The present study unequivocally shows behavioral and intracellular signaling effects of this endogenous compound and identifies TAAR1 as one of the mediators of 3-MT actions <italic>in vivo</italic>. It should be noted, however, that under normal conditions the basal concentrations of 3-MT in the extracellular space appear relatively low (below 10 nM) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Jones1">[10]</xref> to significantly affect TAAR1 since the affinity of 3-MT at TAAR1 under different <italic>in vitro</italic> conditions was found to be in the range of 350-2,810 nM (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Bunzow1">[16]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Wainscott1">[20]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Hu1">[22]</xref>, present study). However, a similar situation exists for the dopamine system where steady state 7–10 nM concentrations of dopamine are detected by in vivo microdialysis <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Jones1">[10]</xref> but, for example, the affinity of DA at D1 DA receptors is routinely reported to be in the micromolar range <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Missale1">[46]</xref>. Direct microdialysis measurements of the extracellular concentrations of 3-MT following i.c.v. administration have shown that infusion of a behaviorally active dose of 3-MT (9 µg, i.c.v.) results in accumulation of about 100 nM concentration of 3-MT in the striatal dialysates (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pone.0013452.s002">Figure S2</xref>). Given the fact that the <italic>in vitro</italic> recovery of 3-MT across the dialysis membrane at present conditions is about 20% (data not shown), we estimate that behaviorally active extracellular 3-MT concentrations should be above 500 nM which is consistent with affinity values of 3-MT at TAAR1 in cellular assays (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Bunzow1">[16]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Wainscott1">[20]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Barak1">[21]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Hu1">[22]</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="pone-0013452-g002">Figure 2</xref>). Since the spatial and temporal dynamics of 3-MT concentrations following the release of DA in the synaptic cleft are unknown <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Garris1">[47]</xref>, it is unclear if 3-MT under normal conditions achieves the concentrations required to activate TAAR1. However, in pathological situations or with pharmacological treatments causing massive DA release or a deficiency in MAO, accumulated 3-MT could possibly reach the concentrations that would activate TAAR1. Similarly, decreases in 3-MT concentrations due to central COMT inhibition could significantly diminish the possibility of TAAR1-mediated effects of 3-MT.</p><p>Another important question relates to the fact that the effects of 3-MT were only partially blocked in TAAR1-KO mice. This observation indicates that TAAR1 is not the exclusive receptor involved in the actions of 3-MT and a complete explanation of the behavioral effects and, to a lesser degree, striatal signaling responses requires the additional actions on receptors other than TAAR1. While there is some indication that at high micromolar concentrations 3-MT may bind to dopamine and α2-adrenergic receptors <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-AntkiewiczMichaluk1">[48]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Alachkar1">[49]</xref>, it is more likely that other, currently unrecognized receptors could play important role in 3-MT effects. It should be noted, that the TAAR receptor gene family in humans is represented by 9 members and in mice by 16 members <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Lindemann1">[17]</xref> and it is not inconceivable that the full physiological output of a monoaminergic neuromodulator/neurotransmitter requires the activation of multiple receptors of the same family. For example, activation of both D1 and D2 dopamine receptors is necessary to induce movement in conditions of dopamine deficiency <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Sotnikova1">[12]</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s4b"><title>Novel roles of COMT and MAO</title><p>3-MT concentrations in the brain are tightly controlled by the activity of COMT and MAO (with major contribution of MAO-A) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Molinoff1">[1]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Westerink2">[35]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Kehr1">[38]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Kato1">[50]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Lenders1">[51]</xref>. As such, inhibitors of COMT lead to dramatic decreases in 3-MT levels while blockade of MAO induces remarkable elevations in 3-MT levels <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Westerink2">[35]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Kehr1">[38]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Kato1">[50]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Mannisto2">[52]</xref>. Intriguingly, both COMT and MAO inhibitors cause significant modulating effects on the clinical manifestations of Parkinson's disease <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Mannisto1">[6]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Youdim1">[53]</xref>. Polymorphisms in <italic>MAOA</italic> gene have been associated with aggression, affective disorders, alcoholism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Shih1">[54]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-DSouza1">[55]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Haavik1">[56]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Gizer1">[57]</xref>. Variations in <italic>COMT</italic> gene affecting enzyme activity has been associated with schizophrenia, ADHD, pain sensitivity and several other pathological conditions <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Mannisto1">[6]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-DSouza1">[55]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Haavik1">[56]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Diatchenko1">[58]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Apud1">[59]</xref> but the role of this enzyme has been exclusively related to modulation of metabolism of classical catecholamines, such as dopamine and norepinephrine. The realization of the fact that 3-MT has its own neuromodulatory properties suggests that alterations in COMT activity, which serves as the rate limiting enzyme for this putative neuromodulator, could affect brain functions also by altering extracellular 3-MT concentrations. Understanding the role of 3-MT mediated effects of COMT and MAO in various pathological conditions represents an exciting topic for future research.</p></sec><sec id="s4c"><title>Potential role of 3-MT in Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia</title><p>Both COMT and MAO inhibitors have found clinical utility in Parkinson's disease <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Mannisto1">[6]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Youdim1">[53]</xref>. It is tempting to speculate that the behavioral effects caused by 3-MT may have particular relevance to the pathogenesis or responses to treatments in this disorder. It has been suggested previously that abnormal 3-MT levels may contribute to some side-effects of L-DOPA treatment <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Nakazato1">[43]</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Charlton1">[45]</xref>. Particularly intriguing is the observation that 3-MT concentrations are more markedly increased in the putamen of patients that develop L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Rajput1">[60]</xref>. The low nanomolar concentrations of 3-MT, closely following the dynamics of extracellular DA levels, should be elevated by each administration of L-DOPA <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Napolitano1">[61]</xref>. It is unknown what concentrations of 3-MT in the brain are produced by the chronic multi-year treatment of L-DOPA that is necessary to cause dyskinesias in PD patients, but a large increase in urine 3-MT levels have been reported in patients treated chronically with L-DOPA <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Siirtola1">[62]</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Muskiet1">[63]</xref>. Thus, a potential contribution of elevated 3-MT levels to at least some specific manifestations of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesias and the role of TAAR1 in these processes deserve further detailed investigation.</p><p>A dopaminergic theory of schizophrenia suggests an enhanced dopaminergic transmission as a leading cause of the disorder. An enhanced dopamine release should produce elevation in brain 3-MT concentrations and variations in COMT activity found in this disorder <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Apud1">[59]</xref> could significantly affect these levels. Thus, it might be important to explore whether TAAR1-dependent neuromodulation caused by 3-MT contributes to pathological manifestations of schizophrenia <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="pone.0013452-Dill1">[64]</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s4d"><title>Conclusions</title><p>Taken together, these observations indicate an important neuromodulatory role for the major extracellular dopamine metabolite, 3-MT. The data suggest the broadening of the list of tyrosine metabolites – dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, tyramine, octopamine, β-PEA, and now 3-MT– that can exert significant neuromodulatory/neurotransmitter actions in various organisms. The identification of 3-MT as a neuromodulator supports the concept that multiple products of a single synthetic pathway and also their degradation products can serve as signals to affect specific neuronal systems or provide mechanisms for the fine-tuning of physiological functions. Finally, given low (trace) concentrations of 3-MT at steady state in the brain, its phenylethylamine structure and activity at TAAR1, this biogenic amine could be classified as a novel member of the family of endogenous trace amines.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material" id="s5"><title>Supporting Information</title><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pone.0013452.s001"><label>Figure S1</label><caption><p>Automated measures of dynamics of abnormal movements induced by 3-MT in wild type mice.</p><p>(0.04 MB PDF)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pone.0013452.s001.pdf" mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pone.0013452.s002"><label>Figure S2</label><caption><p>Determination of striatal extracellular levels of 3-MT after i.c.v. infusion of 3-MT (9 µg) into the lateral ventricle.</p><p>(0.02 MB PDF)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pone.0013452.s002.pdf" mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pone.0013452.s003"><label>Video S1</label><caption><p>Examples of abnormal motor behaviors induced by 3-MT (36 µg, i.c.v.) in wild type mice (40 minutes after administration).</p><p>(6.70 MB MPG)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pone.0013452.s003.mpg" mimetype="video" mime-subtype="mpeg"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pone.0013452.s004"><label>Video S2</label><caption><p>Examples of abnormal motor behaviors induced by 3-MT (36 µg, i.c.v.) in wild type mice (40 minutes after administration).</p><p>(8.39 MB WMV)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pone.0013452.s004.wmv" mimetype="video" mime-subtype="x-ms-wmv"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material></sec></body><back><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p><bold>Competing Interests: </bold>The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.</p></fn><fn fn-type="financial-disclosure"><p><bold>Funding: </bold>Supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants NS-19576 and 1UO1-DA022950 to Marc G. Caron and research grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to Raul R. Gainetdinov. Jean-Martin Beaulieu is supported by a discovery grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and he is NARSAD Vital Projects Fund, Inc. Investigator and holds a Canada research Chair in Molecular Psychiatry. Xiaodong Zhang is supported by NARSAD Young Investigator Award and Singapore Ministry of Education T208A3126 grant. 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