Assembly and maturation of synapses at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ) depend on trans-synaptic neurexin/neuroligin signalling, which is promoted by the scaffolding protein Syd-1 binding to neurexin.
Scientists in the journal Nature Communications report that the scaffold protein spinophilin binds to the C-terminal portion of neurexin and is needed to limit neurexin/ neuroligin signalling by acting antagonistic to Syd-1.
Loss of presynaptic spinophilin results in the formation of excess, but atypically small active zones. Neuroligin-1/neurexin-1/Syd-1 levels are increased at spinophilin mutant NMJs, and removal of single copies of the neurexin-1, Syd-1 or neuroligin-1 genes suppresses the spinophilin-active zone phenotype.
Evoked transmission is strongly reduced at spinophilin terminals, owing to a severely reduced release probability at individual active zones.
Authors conclude that presynaptic spinophilin fine-tunes neurexin/neuroligin signalling to control active zone number and functionality, thereby optimizing them for action potential-induced exocytosis.
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151016/ncomms9362/full/ncomms9362.html
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