Role of neuropsin in formation and maturation of Schaffer-collateral L1cam-immunoreactive synaptic boutons
Role of neuropsin in formation and maturation of Schaffer-collateral L1cam-immunoreactive synaptic boutons
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DOI:
10.1242/jcs.02862
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发表时间:
2006-04-01
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4
通讯作者:
Shiosaka, S
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作者:
Nakamura, Y;Tamura, H;Shiosaka, S
We report that neuropsin is involved in the synaptogenesis/maturation of orphan and small synaptic boutons in the Schaffer-collateral pathway. Most nonsynaptic orphan boutons and a number of immature small synaptic boutons expressed the cell adhesion molecule L1 in presynaptic Schaffer-collateral terminals, whereas mature large boutons on mushroom spines were devoid of L1. The number of L1-immunoreactive boutons was markedly higher in neuropsin-deficient mice than in wildtype mice, whereas there were far fewer mature large boutons. L1-immunoreactive boutons were hypertrophied in the mutant mice. When a recombinant active neuropsin was microinjected into the mutant hippocampus, the number of immunoreactive synaptic boutons reverted to wild-type levels after one day. These results strongly suggest that enzymatically active neuropsin allows a maturational change of L1-immunoreactive small boutons, both orphan and synaptic, and this step may be important in synaptic plasticity based on activity-dependent structural change.