Katanin is involved in Microtubule Polymerization into Dendritic Spines and regulates Synaptic Plasticity
Dynamic microtubules transiently polymerize into dendritic spines, however intracellular factors that regulate this process and their functional role at synapses are hardly understood. Using live imaging, electrophysiology, and glutamate uncaging, we show that the microtubule-severing complex katani...
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Published in | bioRxiv |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Paper |
Language | English |
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Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
05.05.2022
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Summary: | Dynamic microtubules transiently polymerize into dendritic spines, however intracellular factors that regulate this process and their functional role at synapses are hardly understood. Using live imaging, electrophysiology, and glutamate uncaging, we show that the microtubule-severing complex katanin is located at individual spine synapses, participates in the activity-dependent process of microtubule polymerization into dendritic spines, and regulates synaptic plasticity. Overexpression of a dominant-negative ATPase-deficient katanin subunit, did not alter microtubule growth velocities or comet density in dendrites, but significantly reduced the activity-dependent invasion of microtubules into dendritic spines. Notably, functional inhibition of katanin significantly affected the potentiation of AMPA-receptor-mediated excitatory currents after chemical induction of long-term potentiation (cLTP). Furthermore, interference with katanin function prevented structural spine remodeling following single spine glutamate uncaging. Our data identify katanin at individual spine synapses in association with PSD-95. Thus, katanin regulates postsynaptic microtubules and modulates synaptic structure and function. Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. |
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DOI: | 10.1101/2022.05.04.490623 |