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ArticleMolecular brain2014

Interaction of acetylcholinesterase with neurexin-1β regulates glutamatergic synaptic stability in hippocampal neurons.

Yun-Yan Xiang, Haiheng Dong, Burton B Yang, John F Macdonald, Wei-Yang Lu

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Article in Molecular brain, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yun-Yan Xiang
Haiheng Dong
Burton B Yang
John F Macdonald
Wei-Yang LuRobarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. wlu53@uwo.ca.
Western University · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research FRN 94359Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-84517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExcess expression of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the cortex and hippocampus causes a decrease in the number of glutamatergic synapses and alters the expression of neurexin and neuroligin, trans-synaptic proteins that control synaptic stability. The molecular sequence and three-dimensional structure of AChE are homologous to the corresponding aspects of the ectodomain of neuroligin. This study investigated whether excess AChE interacts physically with neurexin to destabilize glutamatergic synapses.

resultsThe results showed that AChE clusters colocalized with neurexin assemblies in the neurites of hippocampal neurons and that AChE co-immunoprecipitated with neurexin from the lysate of these neurons. Moreover, when expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells, N-glycosylated AChE co-immunoprecipitated with non-O-glycosylated neurexin-1β, with N-glycosylation of the AChE being required for this co-precipitation to occur. Increasing extracellular AChE decreased the association of neurexin with neuroligin and inhibited neuroligin-induced synaptogenesis. The number and activity of excitatory synapses in cultured hippocampal neurons were reduced by extracellular catalytically inactive AChE.

conclusionsExcessive glycosylated AChE could competitively disrupt a subset of the neurexin-neuroligin junctions consequently impairing the integrity of glutamatergic synapses. This might serve a molecular mechanism of excessive AChE induced neurodegeneration.

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AcetylcholinesteraseAnimalsCell Adhesion Molecules, NeuronalCell MembraneGlutamatesGlycosylationHEK293 CellsHippocampusHumansImmunoprecipitationLigandsModels, BiologicalNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsProtein BindingRatsAcetylcholinesteraseCell Adhesion Molecules, NeuronalGlutamatesLigandsNerve Tissue Proteinsneurexin Ibeta

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PMID24594013
PMCPMC3973991
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