Yes / The activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated (Arc) protein control synaptic strength by facilitating AMPA receptor (AMPAR) endocytosis. Here we demonstrate that Arc targets AMPAR to be internalized through a direct interaction with the clathrin-adaptor protein 2 (AP-2). We show that Arc overexpression overexpression in dissociated hippocampal neurons obtained from C57BL/6 mouse reduces the density of AMPAR GluA1 subunits at the cell surface and reduces the amplitude and rectification of AMPAR-mediated miniature-excitatory postsynaptic currents (mEPSC). Mutations of Arc, that prevent the AP-2 interaction reduce Arc-mediated endocytosis of GluA1 and abolish the reduction in AMPAR-mediated mEPSC amplitude and rectification. Depletion of the AP-2 subunit µ2 blocks the Arc-mediated reduction in mEPSC amplitude, effect that is restored by re-introducing µ2. The Arc/AP-2 interaction plays an important role in homeostatic synaptic scaling as the Arc-dependent decrease in mEPSC amplitude, induced by a chronic increase in neuronal activity, is inhibited by AP-2 depletion. This data provides a mechanism to explain how activity-dependent expression of Arc decisively controls the fate of AMPAR at the cell surface and modulates synaptic strength, via the direct interaction with the endocytic clathrin adaptor AP-2. / This work was supported by the BBSRC_FAPPA BB/J02127X/1 and BBSRC-BB/H018344/1 to SALC and by the FAPESP_RCUK_FAPPA 2012/50147-5 and FAPESP_Young Investigator’s grant 2009/50650-6 to LLdS. SCW was a PhD Student supported be the BBSRC/GSK PhD-CASE Studentship, LPdA is a postdoc fellow supported by FAPESP, YCJ was supported by a FAPESP scientific initiation scholarship.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/8321 |
| Date | 18 April 2016 |
| Creators | DaSilva, L.L., Wall, M.J., de Almeida, Luciana P., Wauters, S.C., Januario, Y.C., Muller, Jurgen, Corrêa, Sonia A.L. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted Manuscript |
| Rights | © 2016 DaSilva et al. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher’s copyright policy. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
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