RIM-binding protein 2 regulates release probability by fine-tuning calcium channel localization at murine hippocampal synapses

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  • M Katharina Grauel
  • Marta Maglione
  • Suneel Reddy-Alla
  • Claudia G Willmes
  • Marisa M Brockmann
  • Thorsten Trimbuch
  • Tanja Rosenmund
  • Maria Pangalos
  • Gülçin Vardar
  • Alexander Stumpf
  • Walter, Alexander Matthias
  • Benjamin R Rost
  • Britta J Eickholt
  • Volker Haucke
  • Dietmar Schmitz
  • Stephan J Sigrist
  • Christian Rosenmund

The tight spatial coupling of synaptic vesicles and voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (CaVs) ensures efficient action potential-triggered neurotransmitter release from presynaptic active zones (AZs). Rab-interacting molecule-binding proteins (RIM-BPs) interact with Ca2+ channels and via RIM with other components of the release machinery. Although human RIM-BPs have been implicated in autism spectrum disorders, little is known about the role of mammalian RIM-BPs in synaptic transmission. We investigated RIM-BP2-deficient murine hippocampal neurons in cultures and slices. Short-term facilitation is significantly enhanced in both model systems. Detailed analysis in culture revealed a reduction in initial release probability, which presumably underlies the increased short-term facilitation. Superresolution microscopy revealed an impairment in CaV2.1 clustering at AZs, which likely alters Ca2+ nanodomains at release sites and thereby affects release probability. Additional deletion of RIM-BP1 does not exacerbate the phenotype, indicating that RIM-BP2 is the dominating RIM-BP isoform at these synapses.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume113
Issue number41
Pages (from-to)11615-11620
Number of pages6
ISSN0027-8424
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Oct 2016
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Action Potentials, Animals, Calcium/metabolism, Calcium Channels/metabolism, Cells, Cultured, Electrophysiological Phenomena, Female, Gene Deletion, Gene Expression, Gene Targeting, Genetic Loci, Hippocampus/metabolism, Male, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Neurons/metabolism, Phenotype, Protein Transport, Synapses/metabolism, Synaptic Transmission/genetics, Synaptic Vesicles/metabolism

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