Intact synapse structure and function after combined knockout of PTPδ, PTPσ and LAR
- Harvard Medical School, United States
Abstract
It has long been proposed that Leukocyte common Antigen-Related Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (LAR-RPTPs) are cell-adhesion proteins that control synapse assembly. Their synaptic nanoscale localization, however, is not established, and synapse fine structure after knockout of the three vertebrate LAR-RPTPs (PTPδ, PTPσ and LAR) has not been tested. Here, superresolution microscopy reveals that PTPδ localizes to the synaptic cleft precisely apposed to postsynaptic scaffolds of excitatory and inhibitory synapses. We next assessed synapse structure in newly generated triple-conditional knockout mice for PTPδ, PTPσ and LAR, complementing a recent independent study of synapse function after LAR-RPTP ablation (Sclip and Südhof, 2020). While mild effects on synaptic vesicle clustering and active zone architecture were detected, synapse numbers and their overall structure were unaffected, membrane anchoring of the active zone persisted, and vesicle docking and release were normal. Hence, despite their localization at synaptic appositions, LAR-RPTPs are dispensable for presynapse structure and function.
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National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH113349)
- Pascal S Kaeser
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS083898)
- Pascal S Kaeser
Harvard Medical School
- Pascal S Kaeser
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All animal experiments were performed according to institutional guidelines of Harvard University, and were in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. The animals were handled according to protocols (protocol number IS00000049) approved by the institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC).
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- Graeme W Davis, University of California, San Francisco, United States
Publication history
- Received: January 18, 2021
- Accepted: February 28, 2021
- Accepted Manuscript published: March 3, 2021 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: March 16, 2021 (version 2)
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© 2021, Emperador-Melero et al.
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Intact synapse structure and function after combined knockout of PTPδ, PTPσ and LAR
eLife 10:e66638.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66638
