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Palmitoylation regulates glutamate receptor distributions in postsynaptic densities through control of PSD95 conformation and orientation

2016-08 , Jeyifous, Okunola , Lin, Eric I. , Chen, Xiaobing , Antinone, Sarah E. , Mastro, Ryan , Drisdel, Renaldo , Reese, Thomas S. , Green, William N.

PSD95 and SAP97 are homologous scaffold proteins with different N-terminal domains, possessing either a palmitoylation site (PSD95) or an L27 domain (SAP97). Here, we measured PSD95 and SAP97 conformation in vitro and in postsynaptic densities (PSDs) using FRET and electron microscopy, and examined how conformation regulated interactions with AMPA-type and NMDAtype glutamate receptors (AMPARs/NMDARs). Palmitoylation of PSD95 changed its conformation from a compact to an extended configuration. PSD95 associated with AMPARs (via TARP subunits) or NMDARs (via GluN2B subunits) only in its palmitoylated and extended conformation. In contrast, SAP97 in its extended conformation associates with NMDARs but not with AMPARs. Within PSDs, PSD95 and SAP97 were largely in the extended conformation, but had different orientations. PSD95 oriented perpendicular to the PSD membrane, with its palmitoylated, N-terminal domain at the membrane. SAP97 oriented parallel to the PSD membrane, likely as a dimer through interactions of its N-terminal, L27 domain. Changing PSD95 palmitoylation in PSDs altered PSD95 and AMPAR levels but did not affect NMDAR levels. These results indicate that in PSDs, PSD95 palmitoylation, conformation and its interactions are dynamic when associated with AMPARs, and more stable when associated with NMDARs. Altogether, our results are consistent with differential regulation of PSD95 palmitoylation in PSDs resulting from the clustering of palmitoylating and depalmitoylating enzymes into AMPAR nanodomains segregated away from NMDAR nanodomains.

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Isolation and ultrastructural characterization of squid synaptic vesicles

2011-04 , Pekkurnaz, Gulcin , Fera, Andrea , Zimmerberg-Helms, Jessica , DeGiorgis, Joseph A. , Bezrukov, Ludmila , Blank, Paul S. , Mazar, Julia , Reese, Thomas S. , Zimmerberg, Joshua

Synaptic vesicles contain a variety of proteins and lipids that mediate fusion with the pre-synaptic membrane. Although the structures of many synaptic vesicle proteins are known, an overall picture of how they are organized at the vesicle surface is lacking. In this paper, we describe a better method for the isolation of squid synaptic vesicles and characterize the results. For highly pure and intact synaptic vesicles from squid optic lobe, glycerol density gradient centrifugation was the key step. Different electron microscopic methods show that vesicle membrane surfaces are largely covered with structures corresponding to surface proteins. Each vesicle contains several stalked globular structures that extend from the vesicle surface and are consistent with the V-ATPase. BLAST search of a library of squid expressed sequence tags identifies 10 V-ATPase subunits, which are expressed in the squid stellate ganglia. Negative-stain tomography demonstrates directly that vesicles flatten during the drying step of negative staining, and furthermore shows details of individual vesicles and other proteins at the vesicle surface.

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