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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 201-209Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2010.02.007
Keywords
Gephyrin; Protein phosphatase; GABA(A) receptors; Inhibitory synapses; Okadaic acid; Calyculin; Hippocampal neuron
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- Max-Planck-Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 628]
- Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- EU [HPMF-CT-2002-02082]
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The scaffolding protein gephyrin is essential for the clustering of glycine and GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)Rs) at inhibitory synapses. Here, we provide evidence that the size of the postsynaptic gephyrin scaffold is controlled by dephosphorylation reactions. Treatment of cultured hippocampal neurons with the protein phosphatase inhibitors calyculin A and okadaic acid reduced the size of postsynaptic gephyrin clusters and increased cytoplasmic gephyrin staining. Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) was found to colocalize with gephyrin at selected postsynaptic sites and to interact with gephyrin in transfected cells and brain extracts. Alanine or glutamate substitution of the two established serine/threonine phosphorylation sites in gephyrin failed to affect its clustering at inhibitory synapses and its ability to recruit gamma 2 subunit containing GABA(A)Rs. Our data are consistent with the postsynaptic gephyrin scaffold acting as a platform for PP1, which regulates gephyrin cluster size by dephosphorylation of gephyrin- or cytoskeleton-associated proteins. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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