ArticleThe Journal of cell biology2019
Synaptic neurexin-1 assembles into dynamically regulated active zone nanoclusters.
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- High-affinity detection of biotinylated endogenous neuroligin-1 at excitatory and inhibitory synapses using a tagged knock-in mouse.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The liprin-α/RIM complex regulates the dynamic assembly of presynaptic active zones via liquid-liquid phase separation.PLoS biology · 2025Article
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- Alpha-neurexins in health and disease.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Review
- Creation of a novel CRISPR-generated allele to express HA epitope-tagged C1QL1 and improved methods for its detection at synapses.FEBS letters · 2024Article
- Non-canonical function of ADAM10 in presynaptic plasticity.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Article
- Neuronal and non-neuronal functions of the synaptic cell adhesion molecule neurexin in Nematostella vectensis.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Conditional Knockout of Neurexins Alters the Contribution of Calcium Channel Subtypes to Presynaptic CaCells · 2024Article
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Abstract
Neurexins are well-characterized presynaptic cell adhesion molecules that engage multifarious postsynaptic ligands and organize diverse synapse properties. However, the precise synaptic localization of neurexins remains enigmatic. Using super-resolution microscopy, we demonstrate that neurexin-1 forms discrete nanoclusters at excitatory synapses, revealing a novel organizational feature of synaptic architecture. Synapses generally contain a single nanocluster that comprises more than four neurexin-1 molecules and that also includes neurexin-2 and/or neurexin-3 isoforms. Moreover, we find that neurexin-1 is physiologically cleaved by ADAM10 similar to its ligand neuroligin-1, with ∼4-6% of neurexin-1 and ∼2-3% of neuroligin-1 present in the adult brain as soluble ectodomain proteins. Blocking ADAM10-mediated neurexin-1 cleavage dramatically increased the synaptic neurexin-1 content, thereby elevating the percentage of Homer1(+) excitatory synapses containing neurexin-1 nanoclusters from 40-50% to ∼80%, and doubling the number of neurexin-1 molecules per nanocluster. Taken together, our results reveal an unexpected nanodomain organization of synapses in which neurexin-1 is assembled into discrete presynaptic nanoclusters that are dynamically regulated via ectodomain cleavage.
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