1. Differential Regulation of Evoked and Spontaneous Release by Presynaptic NMDA Receptors.
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Abrahamsson T, Chou CYC, Li SY, Mancino A, Costa RP, Brock JA, Nuro E, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Blackman AV, Tudor-Jones A, Oyrer J, Farmer WT, Murai KK, and Sjöström PJ
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- Animals, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials physiology, Female, Magnesium physiology, Male, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Miniature Postsynaptic Potentials physiology, Presynaptic Terminals physiology, Pyramidal Cells physiology, Visual Cortex physiology, GTP-Binding Proteins physiology, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 9 physiology, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate physiology, Receptors, Presynaptic physiology
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Presynaptic NMDA receptors (preNMDARs) control synaptic release, but it is not well understood how. Rab3-interacting molecules (RIMs) provide scaffolding at presynaptic active zones and are involved in vesicle priming. Moreover, c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) has been implicated in regulation of spontaneous release. We demonstrate that, at connected layer 5 pyramidal cell pairs of developing mouse visual cortex, Mg
2+ -sensitive preNMDAR signaling upregulates replenishment of the readily releasable vesicle pool during high-frequency firing. In conditional RIM1αβ deletion mice, preNMDAR upregulation of vesicle replenishment was abolished, yet preNMDAR control of spontaneous release was unaffected. Conversely, JNK2 blockade prevented Mg2+ -insensitive preNMDAR signaling from regulating spontaneous release, but preNMDAR control of evoked release remained intact. We thus discovered that preNMDARs signal differentially to control evoked and spontaneous release by independent and non-overlapping mechanisms. Our findings suggest that preNMDARs may sometimes signal metabotropically and support the emerging principle that evoked and spontaneous release are distinct processes. VIDEO ABSTRACT., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2017
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