Publication Date:
2010-04-17
Description:
Cbln1, secreted from cerebellar granule cells, and the orphan glutamate receptor delta2 (GluD2), expressed by Purkinje cells, are essential for synapse integrity between these neurons in adult mice. Nevertheless, no endogenous binding partners for these molecules have been identified. We found that Cbln1 binds directly to the N-terminal domain of GluD2. GluD2 expression by postsynaptic cells, combined with exogenously applied Cbln1, was necessary and sufficient to induce new synapses in vitro and in the adult cerebellum in vivo. Further, beads coated with recombinant Cbln1 directly induced presynaptic differentiation and indirectly caused clustering of postsynaptic molecules via GluD2. These results indicate that the Cbln1-GluD2 complex is a unique synapse organizer that acts bidirectionally on both pre- and postsynaptic components.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Matsuda, Keiko -- Miura, Eriko -- Miyazaki, Taisuke -- Kakegawa, Wataru -- Emi, Kyoichi -- Narumi, Sakae -- Fukazawa, Yugo -- Ito-Ishida, Aya -- Kondo, Tetsuro -- Shigemoto, Ryuichi -- Watanabe, Masahiko -- Yuzaki, Michisuke -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Apr 16;328(5976):363-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1185152.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20395510" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Binding Sites
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Cell Line
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Cells, Cultured
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Cerebellum/cytology/*physiology
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Coculture Techniques
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Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials
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Humans
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Ligands
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Mice
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/*metabolism
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Presynaptic Terminals/physiology
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Protein Binding
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Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
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Protein Precursors/*metabolism
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Purkinje Cells/metabolism/*physiology
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Rats
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Receptors, Glutamate/chemistry/*metabolism
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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Synapses/*physiology
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Synaptic Membranes/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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