title: Synaptic vesicle recycling in synapsin I knock-out mice.
abstract: The synapsins are a family of four neuron-specific phosphoproteins that have been implicated in the regulation of neurotransmitter release. Nevertheless, knock-out mice lacking synapsin Ia and Ib, family members that are major substrates for cAMP and Ca2+/ Calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinases, show limited phenotypic changes when analyzed electrophysiologically (Rosahl, T.W., D. Spillane, M. Missler, J. Herz, D.K. Selig, J.R. Wolff, R.E. Hammer, R.C. Malenka, and T.C. Sudhof. 1995. Nature (Lond.). 375: 488-493; Rosahl, T.W., M. Geppert, D. Spillane, D., J. Herz, R.E. Hammer, R.C. Malenka, and T.C. Sudhof. 1993. Cell. 75:661-670; Li, L., L.S. Chin, O. Shupliakov, L. Brodin, T.S. Sihra, O. Hvalby, V. Jensen, D. Zheng, J.O. McNamara, P. Greengard, and P. Andersen. 1995. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 92:9235-9239; see also Pieribone, V.A., O. Shupliakov, L. Brodin, S. Hilfiker-Rothenfluh, A.J. Czernik, and P. Greengard. 1995. Nature (Lond.). 375:493-497). Here, using the optical tracer FM 1-43, we characterize the details of synaptic vesicle recycling at individual synaptic boutons in hippocampal cell cultures derived from mice lacking synapsin I or wild-type equivalents. These studies show that both the number of vesicles exocytosed during brief action potential trains and the total recycling vesicle pool are significantly reduced in the synapsin I-deficient mice, while the kinetics of endocytosis and synaptic vesicle repriming appear normal.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University Medical School, California 94305, USA. timr@leland.stanford.edu
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Greengard
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004705:Endocytosis; D005089:Exocytosis; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D011726:Pyridinium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D016704:Synapsins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D013572:Synaptic Vesicles / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: C073804:FM1 43; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D011726:Pyridinium Compounds; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; D016704:Synapsins