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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Reconstitution of synaptic junctions orchestrated by teneurin-latrophilin complexes.

Xuchen Zhang, Xudong Chen, Daniel Matúš, Thomas C Südhof

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. 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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13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Altered striatal dopamine regulation in Adgrl3 knockout mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  3. Teneurins Are SPARCL1 Receptors.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors.Pharmacological reviews · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Xuchen Zhang *Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1088-4757
Xudong Chen *Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9433-3732
Daniel MatúšDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7488-0918
Thomas C SüdhofDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3361-9275

Funding

Latrophilin Function in Synapse FormationR01MH126929 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Thomas C. Sudhof · 2021 to 2026
$4.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synapses are organized by trans-synaptic adhesion molecules that coordinate assembly of pre- and postsynaptic specializations, which, in turn, are composed of scaffolding proteins forming liquid-liquid phase-separated condensates. Presynaptic teneurins mediate excitatory synapse organization by binding to postsynaptic latrophilins; however, the mechanism of action of teneurins, driven by extracellular domains evolutionarily derived from bacterial toxins, remains unclear. In this work, we show that only the intracellular sequence, a dimerization sequence, and extracellular bacterial toxin-derived latrophilin-binding domains of Teneurin-3 are required for synapse organization, suggesting that teneurin-induced latrophilin clustering mediates synaptogenesis. Intracellular Teneurin-3 sequences capture liquid-liquid phase-separated presynaptic active zone scaffolds, enabling us to reconstitute an entire synaptic junction from purified proteins in which trans-synaptic teneurin-latrophilin complexes recruit phase-separated pre- and postsynaptic specializations.

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Nerve Tissue ProteinsReceptors, PeptideSynapsesAnimalsMiceProtein Domainsalpha-latrotoxin receptorNerve Tissue ProteinsReceptors, Peptide

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PMID39818903
PMCPMC11808628

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