کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10749528 1050292 2015 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The soluble extracellular fragment of neuroligin-1 targets Aβ oligomers to the postsynaptic region of excitatory synapses
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The soluble extracellular fragment of neuroligin-1 targets Aβ oligomers to the postsynaptic region of excitatory synapses
چکیده انگلیسی
Amyloid-β oligomers (Aβo) play a major role in the synaptic dysfunction of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Neuroligins are postsynaptic cell-adhesion molecules, that share an extracellular domain with high degree of similarity to acetylcholinesterase (AChE), one of the first putative Aβo receptors. We recently found that Aβo interact with the soluble N-terminal fragment of neuroligin-1 (NL-1). We report here that Aβo associate with NL-1 at excitatory hippocampal synapses, whereas almost no association was observed with neuroligin-2, an isoform present at inhibitory synapses. Studies using purified hippocampal postsynaptic densities indicate that NL-1 interacts with Aβo in a complex with GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors. Additionally, the soluble fragment of NL-1 was used as a scavenger for Aβo. Field excitatory postsynaptic potentials indicate that fragments of NL-1 protect hippocampal neurons from the impairment induced by Aβo. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the interaction between this extracellular fragment of NL-1 and Aβo, strongly suggest that NL-1 facilitates the targeting of Aβo to the postsynaptic regions of excitatory synapses.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - Volume 466, Issue 1, 9 October 2015, Pages 66-71
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