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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
Trafficking of AMPA receptors (AMPA-Rs) to and from synapses controls the strength of excitatory synaptic transmission. However, proteins that cluster AMPA-Rs at synapses remain poorly understood. Here we show that PSD-95-like membrane-associated guanylate kinases (PSD-MAGUKs) mediate this synaptic targeting, and we uncover a remarkable functional redundancy within this protein family. By manipulating endogenous neuronal PSD-MAGUK levels, we find that both PSD-95 and PSD-93 independently mediate AMPA-R targeting at mature synapses. We also reveal unanticipated synapse heterogeneity as loss of either PSD-95 or PSD-93 silences largely nonoverlapping populations of excitatory synapses. In adult PSD-95 and PSD-93 double knockout animals, SAP-102 is upregulated and compensates for the loss of synaptic AMPA-Rs. At immature synapses, PSD-95 and PSD-93 play little role in synaptic AMPA-R clustering; instead, SAP-102 dominates. These studies establish a PSD-MAGUK-specific regulation of AMPA-R synaptic expression that establishes and maintains glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the mammalian central nervous system.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0896-6273
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
307-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Dendritic Spines, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Glutamic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Guanylate Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Neuropeptides, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Organ Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Receptor Aggregation, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Receptors, AMPA, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Synapses, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Synaptic Membranes, pubmed-meshheading:17046693-Synaptic Transmission
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Synapse-specific and developmentally regulated targeting of AMPA receptors by a family of MAGUK scaffolding proteins.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural