Gephyrin is a key scaffold protein mediating the anchoring of GABAA receptors at inhibitory synapses. Here, we exploited superresolution techniques combined with proximity-based clustering analysis and model simulations to investigate the single-molecule gephyrin reorganization during plasticity of inhibitory synapses in mouse hippocampal cultured neurons. This approach revealed that, during the expression of inhibitory LTP, the increase of gephyrin density at postsynaptic sites is associated with the promoted formation of gephyrin nanodomains. We demonstrate that the gephyrin rearrangement in nanodomains stabilizes the amplitude of postsynaptic currents, indicating that, in addition to the number of synaptic GABAA receptors, the nanoscale distribution of GABAA receptors in the postsynaptic area is a crucial determinant for the expression of inhibitory synaptic plasticity. In addition, the methodology implemented here clears the way to the application of the graph-based theory to single-molecule data for the description and quantification of the spatial organization of the synapse at the single-molecule level.

Nanoscale molecular reorganization of the inhibitory postsynaptic density is a determinant of gabaergic synaptic potentiation / F. Pennacchietti, S. Vascon, T. Nieus, C. Rosillo, S. Das, S.K. Tyagarajan, A. Diaspro, A. del Bue, E.M. Petrini, A. Barberis, F.C. Zanacchi. - In: THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. - ISSN 0270-6474. - 37:7(2017), pp. 1747-1756. [10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0514-16.2016]

Nanoscale molecular reorganization of the inhibitory postsynaptic density is a determinant of gabaergic synaptic potentiation

T. Nieus;
2017

Abstract

Gephyrin is a key scaffold protein mediating the anchoring of GABAA receptors at inhibitory synapses. Here, we exploited superresolution techniques combined with proximity-based clustering analysis and model simulations to investigate the single-molecule gephyrin reorganization during plasticity of inhibitory synapses in mouse hippocampal cultured neurons. This approach revealed that, during the expression of inhibitory LTP, the increase of gephyrin density at postsynaptic sites is associated with the promoted formation of gephyrin nanodomains. We demonstrate that the gephyrin rearrangement in nanodomains stabilizes the amplitude of postsynaptic currents, indicating that, in addition to the number of synaptic GABAA receptors, the nanoscale distribution of GABAA receptors in the postsynaptic area is a crucial determinant for the expression of inhibitory synaptic plasticity. In addition, the methodology implemented here clears the way to the application of the graph-based theory to single-molecule data for the description and quantification of the spatial organization of the synapse at the single-molecule level.
Clustering; GABAA receptors; Gephyrin; Model simulations; PALM; Plasticity; STORM; Neuroscience (all)
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2017
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