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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Fully-primed slowly-recovering vesicles mediate presynaptic LTP at neocortical neurons.

Iron Weichard, Holger Taschenberger, Felix Gsell, Grit Bornschein, Andreas Ritzau-Jost, Hartmut Schmidt, Robert J Kittel, Jens Eilers, Erwin Neher, Stefan Hallermann and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Different states of synaptic vesicle priming explain target cell type-dependent differences in neurotransmitter release.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  11. Complexin has a dual synaptic function as checkpoint protein in vesicle priming and as a promoter of vesicle fusion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Iron WeichardFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Holger TaschenbergerDepartment of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen 37075, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3186-3231
Felix GsellFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Grit BornscheinFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4871-2686
Andreas Ritzau-JostFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Hartmut SchmidtFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9516-423X
Robert J KittelDepartment of Animal Physiology, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9199-4826
Jens EilersFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0497-5625
Erwin NeherEmeritus Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen 37070, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9758-7922
Stefan HallermannFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9376-7048
Jana NerlichFaculty of Medicine, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6450-6380
Leipzig University · DEMax Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pre- and postsynaptic forms of long-term potentiation (LTP) are candidate synaptic mechanisms underlying learning and memory. At layer 5 pyramidal neurons, LTP increases the initial synaptic strength but also short-term depression during high-frequency transmission. This classical form of presynaptic LTP has been referred to as redistribution of synaptic efficacy. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We therefore performed whole-cell recordings from layer 5 pyramidal neurons in acute cortical slices of rats and analyzed presynaptic function before and after LTP induction by paired pre- and postsynaptic neuronal activity. LTP was successfully induced in about half of the synaptic connections tested and resulted in increased synaptic short-term depression during high-frequency transmission and a decelerated recovery from short-term depression due to an increased fraction of a slow recovery component. Analysis with a recently established sequential two-step vesicle priming model indicates an increase in the abundance of fully-primed and slowly-recovering vesicles. A systematic analysis of short-term plasticity and synapse-to-synapse variability of synaptic strength at various types of synapses revealed that stronger synapses generally recover more slowly from synaptic short-term depression. Finally, pharmacological stimulation of the cyclic adenosine monophosphate and diacylglycerol signaling pathways, which are both known to promote synaptic vesicle priming, mimicked LTP and slowed the recovery from short-term depression. Our data thus demonstrate that LTP at layer 5 pyramidal neurons increases synaptic strength primarily by enlarging a subpool of fully-primed slowly-recovering vesicles.

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Long-Term PotentiationNeocortexAnimalsHippocampusNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsRatsSynapsesSynaptic Transmissionlong-term plasticityneocortexpresynapticsynapsevesicle priming

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PMID37856547
PMCPMC10614622
OpenAlexW4387782736

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