Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses

Coupling of synaptic vesicle fusion and retrieval constitutes a core mechanism ensuring maintenance of presynaptic function. Recent studies using fast-freeze electron microscopy and capacitance measurements reported an ultrafast mode of endocytosis operating at physiological temperatures. Here, usin...

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Main Authors: Natali L Chanaday, Ege T Kavalali
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Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-04-01
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/36097
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description Coupling of synaptic vesicle fusion and retrieval constitutes a core mechanism ensuring maintenance of presynaptic function. Recent studies using fast-freeze electron microscopy and capacitance measurements reported an ultrafast mode of endocytosis operating at physiological temperatures. Here, using rat hippocampal neurons, we optically monitored single synaptic vesicle endocytosis with high time resolution using the vesicular glutamate transporter, synaptophysin and the V0a1 subunit of the vacuolar ATPase as probes. In this setting, we could distinguish three components of retrieval operating at ultrafast (~150–250 ms, ~20% of events), fast (~5–12 s, ~40% of events) and ultraslow speeds (>20 s, ~40% of events). While increasing Ca2+ slowed the fast events, increasing temperature accelerated their time course. In contrast, the kinetics of ultrafast events were only mildly affected by these manipulations. These results suggest that synaptic vesicle proteins can be retrieved with ultrafast kinetics, although a majority of evoked fusion events are coupled to slower retrieval mechanisms.
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spelling doaj.art-953a3e72915b4a76bd5e0ae6eb5875362022-12-22T02:05:00ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2018-04-01710.7554/eLife.36097Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapsesNatali L Chanaday0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3376-5187Ege T Kavalali1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-227XDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United StatesDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United StatesCoupling of synaptic vesicle fusion and retrieval constitutes a core mechanism ensuring maintenance of presynaptic function. Recent studies using fast-freeze electron microscopy and capacitance measurements reported an ultrafast mode of endocytosis operating at physiological temperatures. Here, using rat hippocampal neurons, we optically monitored single synaptic vesicle endocytosis with high time resolution using the vesicular glutamate transporter, synaptophysin and the V0a1 subunit of the vacuolar ATPase as probes. In this setting, we could distinguish three components of retrieval operating at ultrafast (~150–250 ms, ~20% of events), fast (~5–12 s, ~40% of events) and ultraslow speeds (>20 s, ~40% of events). While increasing Ca2+ slowed the fast events, increasing temperature accelerated their time course. In contrast, the kinetics of ultrafast events were only mildly affected by these manipulations. These results suggest that synaptic vesicle proteins can be retrieved with ultrafast kinetics, although a majority of evoked fusion events are coupled to slower retrieval mechanisms.https://elifesciences.org/articles/36097synaptic vesicle recyclingsynaptic terminalstemperatureendocytosissingle vesicle releaseneuroscience
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synaptic vesicle recycling
synaptic terminals
temperature
endocytosis
single vesicle release
neuroscience
title Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
title_full Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
title_fullStr Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
title_full_unstemmed Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
title_short Optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
title_sort optical detection of three modes of endocytosis at hippocampal synapses
topic synaptic vesicle recycling
synaptic terminals
temperature
endocytosis
single vesicle release
neuroscience
url https://elifesciences.org/articles/36097
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