ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Direct imaging of rapid tethering of synaptic vesicles accompanying exocytosis at a fast central synapse.
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- Single-vesicle imaging reveals actin-dependent spatial restriction of vesicles at the active zone, essential for sustained transmission.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Presynaptic Proteins and Their Roles in Visual Processing by the Retina.Annual review of vision science · 2024Review
- Parallel processing of quickly and slowly mobilized reserve vesicles in hippocampal synapses.eLife · 2024Article
- A maximum of two readily releasable vesicles per docking site at a cerebellar single active zone synapse.eLife · 2024Article
- CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Transient docking of synaptic vesicles: Implications and mechanisms.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2022Review
- Three small vesicular pools in sequence govern synaptic response dynamics during action potential trains.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Transmission at rod and cone ribbon synapses in the retina.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2021Review
- Direct Observation of Vesicle Transport on the Synaptic Ribbon Provides Evidence That Vesicles Are Mobilized and Prepared Rapidly for Release.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
A high rate of synaptic vesicle (SV) release is required at cerebellar mossy fiber terminals for rapid information processing. As the number of release sites is limited, fast SV reloading is necessary to achieve sustained release. However, rapid reloading has not been observed directly. Here, we visualize SV movements near presynaptic membrane using total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy. Upon stimulation, SVs appeared in the TIRF-field and became tethered to the presynaptic membrane with unexpectedly rapid time course, almost as fast as SVs disappeared due to release. However, such stimulus-induced tethering was abolished by inhibiting exocytosis, suggesting that the tethering is tightly coupled to preceding exocytosis. The newly tethered vesicles became fusion competent not immediately but only 300 ms to 400 ms after tethering. Together with model simulations, we propose that rapid tethering leads to an immediate filling of vacated spaces and release sites within <100 nm of the active zone by SVs, which serve as precursors of readily releasable vesicles, thereby shortening delays during sustained activity.
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