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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

Lateral mobility of presynaptic α7-containing nicotinic receptors and its relevance for glutamate release.

David Gomez-Varela, Darwin K Berg

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

David Gomez-VarelaNeurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0357, and Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, D-37075 Goettingen, Germany.
Darwin K Berg
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

Signal Transduction at Neuronal Nicotinic SynapsesR01NS012601 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BERG, DARWIN K · 1985 to 2016
$5.3M
Impact of Nicotinic Signaling through Astrocytes on Glutamate Synapse FormationR21DA034216 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BERG, DARWIN K · 2012 to 2013
$419k
TRANSMISSIONS AND MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF HUMN DEMENTIASP01NS034569 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MANUELIDIS, LAURA · 1995 to 1999
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NIDA NIH HHS DA034216NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA034216NINDS NIH HHS NS012601NINDS NIH HHS NS034569NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS012601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surface diffusion of postsynaptic receptors shapes synaptic transmission. Presynaptic receptors also influence transmission, but the relevance of their mobility for synaptic function is unknown. Using single-particle tracking with quantum dots, we show that calcium-permeable α7-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (α7-nAChRs), capable of promoting transmitter release, are mobile on presynaptic terminals but constrained in synaptic space on rat hippocampal neurons in culture. Additional immobilization of presynaptic α7-nAChRs by antibody crosslinking increases glutamate release capacity as seen in the frequency of spontaneous miniature postsynaptic currents and the size of the readily releasable pool of transmitter. Conversely, blocking glutamate release by targeting tetanus toxin to individual synapses increases α7-nAChR dwell time at presynaptic sites. The effects on release require functional α7-nAChRs and may to depend on CAST/ELKS (calpastatin/glutamine, leucine, lysine, and serine-rich protein), which an unbiased proteomic screen yielded. The results support a new homeostatic regulatory mechanism in which α7-nAChR restrain may be adjusted as needed at presynaptic sites via active zone proteins to maintain transmitter release capability.

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Miniature Postsynaptic PotentialsAdaptor Proteins, Signal Transducingalpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine ReceptorAnimalsCells, CulturedGlutamic AcidHippocampusNeuronsPresynaptic TerminalsQuantum DotsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTetanus ToxinAdaptor Proteins, Signal Transducingalpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine ReceptorChrna7 protein, ratERC1 protein, ratGlutamic AcidTetanus Toxin

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PMID24155310
PMCPMC3807030
OpenAlexW1970266508

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