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ArticleScientific reports2017

Amyloid-β Oligomers Interact with Neurexin and Diminish Neurexin-mediated Excitatory Presynaptic Organization.

Yusuke Naito, Yuko Tanabe, Alfred Kihoon Lee, Edith Hamel, Hideto Takahashi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Neurexin-β Mediates the Synaptogenic Activity of Amyloid Precursor Protein.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yusuke NaitoSynapse Development and Plasticity Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Yuko TanabeSynapse Development and Plasticity Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Alfred Kihoon LeeSynapse Development and Plasticity Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Edith HamelLaboratory of Cerebrovascular Research, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2B4, Canada.
Hideto TakahashiSynapse Development and Plasticity Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Montreal Clinical Research Institute · CAMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by excessive production and deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) proteins as well as synapse dysfunction and loss. While soluble Aβ oligomers (AβOs) have deleterious effects on synapse function and reduce synapse number, the underlying molecular mechanisms are not well understood. Here we screened synaptic organizer proteins for cell-surface interaction with AβOs and identified a novel interaction between neurexins (NRXs) and AβOs. AβOs bind to NRXs via the N-terminal histidine-rich domain (HRD) of β-NRX1/2/3 and alternatively-spliced inserts at splicing site 4 of NRX1/2. In artificial synapse-formation assays, AβOs diminish excitatory presynaptic differentiation induced by NRX-interacting proteins including neuroligin1/2 (NLG1/2) and the leucine-rich repeat transmembrane protein LRRTM2. Although AβOs do not interfere with the binding of NRX1β to NLG1 or LRRTM2, time-lapse imaging revealed that AβO treatment reduces surface expression of NRX1β on axons and that this reduction depends on the NRX1β HRD. In transgenic mice expressing mutated human amyloid precursor protein, synaptic expression of β-NRXs, but not α-NRXs, decreases. Thus our data indicate that AβOs interact with NRXs and that this interaction inhibits NRX-mediated presynaptic differentiation by reducing surface expression of axonal β-NRXs, providing molecular and mechanistic insights into how AβOs lead to synaptic pathology in AD.

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Synaptic PotentialsAlternative SplicingAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsAxonsCell Adhesion Molecules, NeuronalCell LineCells, CulturedChlorocebus aethiopsCOS CellsDisease Models, AnimalGene ExpressionHumansMembrane ProteinsMiceAmyloid beta-PeptidesCell Adhesion Molecules, NeuronalLRRTM2 protein, humanMembrane ProteinsNerve Tissue Proteins

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PMID28211900
PMCPMC5304201
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