| First Author | Joo JY | Year | 2011 |
| Journal | Biochem Biophys Res Commun | Volume | 406 |
| Issue | 4 | Pages | 627-32 |
| PubMed ID | 21356198 | Mgi Jnum | J:171950 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:5002432 | Doi | 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.02.108 |
| Citation | Joo JY, et al. (2011) Differential interactions of cerebellin precursor protein (Cbln) subtypes and neurexin variants for synapse formation of cortical neurons. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 406(4):627-32 |
| abstractText | Trans-synaptic interaction of postsynaptic glutamate receptor delta2 and presynaptic neurexins (NRXNs) through cerebellin precursor protein (Cbln) 1 mediates synapse formation in the cerebellum [T. Uemura, S.J. Lee, M. Yasumura, T. Takeuchi, T. Yoshida, M. Ra, R. Taguchi, K. Sakimura, M. Mishina, Cell 141 (2010) 1068-1079]. This finding raises a question whether other Cbln family members interact with NRXNs to regulate synapse formation in the forebrain. Here, we showed that Cbln1 and Cbln2 induced presynaptic differentiation of cultured cortical neurons, while Cbln4 exhibited little activity. When compared with neuroligin 1, Cbln1 and Cbln2 induced preferentially inhibitory presynaptic differentiation rather than excitatory one in cortical cultures. The synaptogenic activities of Cbln1 and Cbln2 were suppressed by the addition of the extracellular domain of NRXN1beta to the cortical neuron cultures. Consistently, Cbln1 and Cbln2 showed robust binding activities to NRXN1alpha and three beta-NRXNs, while only weak interactions were observed between Cbln4 and NRXNs. The interactions of Cbln1, Cbln2 and Cbln4 were selective for NRXN variants containing splice segment (S) 4. Affinities for NRXNs estimated by surface plasmon resonance analysis were variable among Cbln subtypes. Cbln1 showed higher affinities to NRXNs than Cbln2, while the binding ability of Cbln4 was much lower than those of Cbln1 and Cbln2. The affinities of Cbln1 and Cbln2 were comparable between NRXN1alpha and NRXN1beta, but those for NRXN2beta and NRXN3beta were lower. These results suggest that Cbln subtypes exert synaptogenic activities in cortical neurons by differentially interacting with NRXN variants containing S4. |
