Endosomal sorting of readily releasable synaptic vesicles
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Endosomal sorting of readily releasable synaptic vesicles
Hoopmann, P.; Punge, A. ; Barysch, S. V.; Westphal, V. ; Bückers, J. ; Opazo, F. & Bethani, I. et al. (2010)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(44) pp. 19055-19060. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007037107
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- Hoopmann, Peer; Punge, Annedore ; Barysch, Sina Victoria; Westphal, Volker ; Bückers, Johanna ; Opazo, Felipe ; Bethani, Ioanna; Lauterbach, Marcel A.; Hell, Stefan ; Rizzoli, Silvio
- Abstract
- Neurotransmitter release is achieved through the fusion of synaptic vesicles with the neuronal plasma membrane (exocytosis). Vesicles are then retrieved from the plasma membrane (endocytosis). It was hypothesized more than 3 decades ago that endosomes participate in vesicle recycling, constituting a slow endocytosis pathway required especially after prolonged stimulation. This recycling model predicts that newly endocytosed vesicles fuse with an endosome, which sorts (organizes) the molecules and buds exocytosis-competent vesicles. We analyzed here the endosome function using hippocampal neurons, isolated nerve terminals (synaptosomes), and PC12 cells by stimulated emission depletion microscopy, photooxidation EM, and several conventional microscopy assays. Surprisingly, we found that endosomal sorting is a rapid pathway, which appeared to be involved in the recycling of the initial vesicles to be released on stimulation, the readily releasable pool. In agreement with the endosomal model, the vesicle composition changed after endocytosis, with the newly formed vesicles being enriched in plasma membrane proteins. Vesicle proteins were organized in clusters both in the plasma membrane (on exocytosis) and in the endosome. In the latter compartment, they segregated from plasma membrane components in a process that is likely important for sorting/budding of newly developed vesicles from the endosome.
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- ISSN
- 0027-8424
- Language
- English