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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2019

Cellular Mechanisms Contributing to the Functional Heterogeneity of GABAergic Synapses.

Benjamin F N Campbell, Shiva K Tyagarajan

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Benjamin F N CampbellInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Shiva K TyagarajanInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Abstract

GABAergic inhibitory neurotransmission contributes to diverse aspects of brain development and adult plasticity, including the expression of complex cognitive processes. This is afforded for in part by the dynamic adaptations occurring at inhibitory synapses, which show great heterogeneity both in terms of upstream signaling and downstream effector mechanisms. Single-particle tracking and live imaging have revealed that complex receptor-scaffold interactions critically determine adaptations at GABAergic synapses. Super-resolution imaging studies have shown that protein interactions at synaptic sites contribute to nano-scale scaffold re-arrangements through post-translational modifications (PTMs), facilitating receptor and scaffold recruitment to synaptic sites. Additionally, plasticity mechanisms may be affected by the protein composition at individual synapses and the type of pre-synaptic input. This mini-review article examines recent discoveries of plasticity mechanisms that are operational within GABAergic synapses and discusses their contribution towards functional heterogeneity in inhibitory neurotransmission.

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gephyrinhomeostatic plasticityinterneuronspostsynaptic densitypost-transcriptional regulationpost-translational modifications

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PMCPMC6700328

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