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Interaction between Teneurin-2 and microtubules via EB proteins provides a platform for GABAA receptor exocytosis

  1. Sotaro Ichinose
  2. Yoshihiro Susuki
  3. Nobutake Hosoi
  4. Ryosuke Kaneko
  5. Mizuho Ebihara
  6. Hirokazu Hirai
  7. Hirohide Iwasaki  Is a corresponding author
  1. Gunma University, Japan
  2. Osaka University, Japan
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83276
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  1. Sotaro Ichinose
  2. Yoshihiro Susuki
  3. Nobutake Hosoi
  4. Ryosuke Kaneko
  5. Mizuho Ebihara
  6. Hirokazu Hirai
  7. Hirohide Iwasaki
(2023)
Interaction between Teneurin-2 and microtubules via EB proteins provides a platform for GABAA receptor exocytosis
eLife 12:e83276.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83276
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Abstract

Neurons form dense neural circuits by connecting to each other via synapses and exchange information through synaptic receptors to sustain brain activities. Excitatory postsynapses form and mature on spines composed predominantly of actin, while inhibitory synapses are formed directly on the shafts of dendrites where both actin and microtubules (MTs) are present. Thus, it is the accumulation of specific proteins that characterizes inhibitory synapses. In this study, we explored the mechanisms that enable efficient protein accumulation at inhibitory postsynapse. We found that some inhibitory synapses function to recruit the plus end of MTs. One of the synaptic organizers, Teneurin-2 (TEN2), tends to localize to such MT-rich synapses and recruits MTs to inhibitory postsynapses via interaction with MT plus-end tracking proteins EBs. This recruitment mechanism provides a platform for the exocytosis of GABAA receptors. These regulatory mechanisms could lead to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of disorders such as schizophrenia and autism, which are caused by excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) imbalances during synaptogenesis.

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  1. Sotaro Ichinose

    Department of Anatomy, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
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  2. Yoshihiro Susuki

    Department of Anatomy, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
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  3. Nobutake Hosoi

    Department of Neurophysiology and Neural Repair, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
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  4. Ryosuke Kaneko

    Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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  5. Mizuho Ebihara

    Department of Anatomy, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
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  6. Hirokazu Hirai

    Department of Neurophysiology and Neural Repair, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan
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  7. Hirohide Iwasaki

    Department of Anatomy, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 18K06499)

  • Hirohide Iwasaki

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 22K06805)

  • Hirohide Iwasaki

Takeda Foundation (Medical Research Grants)

  • Hirohide Iwasaki

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist)

  • Sotaro Ichinose

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Animal experimentation: The experiments in this study have passed a rigorous ethical review and have been approved by Gunma University for animal experiments (approval number: 20-061) .

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© 2023, Ichinose et al.

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  1. Sotaro Ichinose
  2. Yoshihiro Susuki
  3. Nobutake Hosoi
  4. Ryosuke Kaneko
  5. Mizuho Ebihara
  6. Hirokazu Hirai
  7. Hirohide Iwasaki
(2023)
Interaction between Teneurin-2 and microtubules via EB proteins provides a platform for GABAA receptor exocytosis
eLife 12:e83276.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83276

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