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Cell Rep ; 35(1): 108953, 2021 04 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33826888

ABSTRACT

Chemical synapses of shared cellular origins have remarkably heterogeneous structures, but how this diversity is generated is unclear. Here, we use three-dimensional (3D) electron microscopy and artificial intelligence algorithms for image processing to reconstruct functional excitatory microcircuits in the mouse hippocampus and microcircuits in which neurotransmitter signaling is permanently suppressed with genetic tools throughout the lifespan. These nanoscale analyses reveal that experience is dispensable for morphogenesis of synapses with different geometric shapes and contents of membrane organelles and that arrangement of morphologically distinct connections in local networks is stochastic. Moreover, loss of activity increases the variability in sizes of opposed pre- and postsynaptic structures without disrupting their alignments, suggesting that inherently variable weights of naive connections become progressively matched with repetitive use. These results demonstrate that mechanisms for the structural diversity of neuronal synapses are intrinsic and provide insights into how circuits essential for memory storage assemble and integrate information.


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Imaging, Three-Dimensional , Microscopy, Electron , Nanotechnology , Synapses/ultrastructure , Animals , Axons/metabolism , Dendrites/metabolism , Mice , Models, Neurological , Organelles/metabolism , Organelles/ultrastructure , Stochastic Processes
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Nat Commun ; 11(1): 4491, 2020 09 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32901033

ABSTRACT

The functionality of the nervous system requires transmission of information along axons with high speed and precision. Conductance velocity depends on axonal diameter whereas signaling precision requires a block of electrical crosstalk between axons, known as ephaptic coupling. Here, we use the peripheral nervous system of Drosophila larvae to determine how glia regulates axonal properties. We show that wrapping glial differentiation depends on gap junctions and FGF-signaling. Abnormal glial differentiation affects axonal diameter and conductance velocity and causes mild behavioral phenotypes that can be rescued by a sphingosine-rich diet. Ablation of wrapping glia does not further impair axonal diameter and conductance velocity but causes a prominent locomotion phenotype that cannot be rescued by sphingosine. Moreover, optogenetically evoked locomotor patterns do not depend on conductance speed but require the presence of wrapping glial processes. In conclusion, our data indicate that wrapping glia modulates both speed and precision of neuronal signaling.


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Drosophila melanogaster/physiology , Animals , Animals, Genetically Modified , Axons/physiology , Cell Differentiation , Drosophila Proteins/genetics , Drosophila Proteins/physiology , Drosophila melanogaster/cytology , Drosophila melanogaster/genetics , Larva/cytology , Larva/physiology , Locomotion/physiology , Models, Neurological , Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics , Nerve Tissue Proteins/physiology , Neuroglia/cytology , Neuroglia/physiology , Optogenetics , Peripheral Nervous System/cytology , Peripheral Nervous System/physiology , Phenotype , Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor/physiology , Signal Transduction
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Sci Rep ; 10(1): 16058, 2020 09 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32994505

ABSTRACT

Deletion of the autism candidate molecule neurobeachin (Nbea), a large PH-BEACH-domain containing neuronal protein, has been shown to affect synaptic function by interfering with neurotransmitter receptor targeting and dendritic spine formation. Previous analysis of mice lacking one allele of the Nbea gene identified impaired spatial learning and memory in addition to altered autism-related behaviours. However, no functional data from living heterozygous Nbea mice (Nbea+/-) are available to corroborate the behavioural phenotype. Here, we explored the consequences of Nbea haploinsufficiency on excitation/inhibition balance and synaptic plasticity in the intact hippocampal dentate gyrus of Nbea+/- animals in vivo by electrophysiological recordings. Based on field potential recordings, we show that Nbea+/- mice display enhanced LTP of the granule cell population spike, but no differences in basal synaptic transmission, synapse numbers, short-term plasticity, or network inhibition. These data indicate that Nbea haploinsufficiency causes remarkably specific alterations to granule cell excitability in vivo, which may contribute to the behavioural abnormalities in Nbea+/- mice and to related symptoms in patients.


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Carrier Proteins/genetics , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , Long-Term Potentiation/genetics , Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics , Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism , Animals , Autism Spectrum Disorder/genetics , Autistic Disorder/genetics , Brain/metabolism , Dendritic Spines/genetics , Dendritic Spines/physiology , Dentate Gyrus/metabolism , Haploinsufficiency , Hippocampus/metabolism , Humans , Male , Membrane Proteins/metabolism , Memory , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Transgenic , Neuronal Plasticity/genetics , Neurons/metabolism , Synapses/metabolism , Synaptic Transmission/genetics
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