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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014

Phosphorylation of synapsin I by cyclin-dependent kinase-5 sets the ratio between the resting and recycling pools of synaptic vesicles at hippocampal synapses.

Anne M J Verstegen, Erica Tagliatti, Gabriele Lignani, Antonella Marte, Tamar Stolero, Merav Atias, Anna Corradi, Flavia Valtorta, Daniel Gitler, Franco Onofri and 2 more

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Anne M J VerstegenDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genoa, Italy.
Erica TagliattiDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genoa, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genova, Italy.
Gabriele LignaniDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genoa, Italy.
Antonella MarteDepartment of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genova, Italy.
Tamar StoleroDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel, and.
Merav AtiasDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel, and.
Anna CorradiDepartment of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genova, Italy.
Flavia ValtortaSan Raffaele Science Institute and Vita-Salute University, I-20132 Milan, Italy.
Daniel GitlerDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel, and.
Franco OnofriDepartment of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genova, Italy.
Anna FassioDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genoa, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genova, Italy, anna.fassio@unige.it.
Fabio BenfenatiDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genoa, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genova, Italy.
Italian Institute of Technology · ITBen-Gurion University of the Negev · ILUniversity of Genoa · ITVita-Salute San Raffaele University · IT

Funding

Telethon GGP13033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyclin-dependent kinase-5 (Cdk5) was reported to downscale neurotransmission by sequestering synaptic vesicles (SVs) in the release-reluctant resting pool, but the molecular targets mediating this activity remain unknown. Synapsin I (SynI), a major SV phosphoprotein involved in the regulation of SV trafficking and neurotransmitter release, is one of the presynaptic substrates of Cdk5, which phosphorylates it in its C-terminal region at Ser(549) (site 6) and Ser(551) (site 7). Here we demonstrate that Cdk5 phosphorylation of SynI fine tunes the recruitment of SVs to the active recycling pool and contributes to the Cdk5-mediated homeostatic responses. Phosphorylation of SynI by Cdk5 is physiologically regulated and enhances its binding to F-actin. The effects of Cdk5 inhibition on the size and depletion kinetics of the recycling pool, as well as on SV distribution within the nerve terminal, are virtually abolished in mouse SynI knock-out (KO) neurons or in KO neurons expressing the dephosphomimetic SynI mutants at sites 6,7 or site 7 only. The observation that the single site-7 mutant phenocopies the effects of the deletion of SynI identifies this site as the central switch in mediating the synaptic effects of Cdk5 and demonstrates that SynI is necessary and sufficient for achieving the effects of the kinase on SV trafficking. The phosphorylation state of SynI by Cdk5 at site 7 is regulated during chronic modification of neuronal activity and is an essential downstream effector for the Cdk5-mediated homeostatic scaling.

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AnimalsCells, CulturedChlorocebus aethiopsCyclin-Dependent Kinase 5Embryo, MammalianExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsFemaleHippocampusMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutPhosphorylationPregnancyProtein BindingSodium Channel BlockersCyclin-Dependent Kinase 5Sodium Channel BlockersSynapsinsTetrodotoxinactinCdk5phosphorylationsynapsinsynaptic homeostasissynaptic vesicle

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PMID24849359
PMCPMC6608192
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