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CELL REPORTS
Volume 31, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107712
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- NIH [R01NS083898, R01MH113349]
- Harvard Brain Initiative
- Armenise Harvard Foundation
- Department of Neurobiology Graduate Fellowship
- Stuart H.Q. and Victoria Quan Fellowship
- NINDS P30 Core Center grant [NS072030]
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Neurons face unique transport challenges. They need to deliver cargo over long axonal distances and to many presynaptic nerve terminals. Rab GTPases are master regulators of vesicular traffic, but essential presynaptic Rabs have not been identified. Here, we find that Rab6, a Golgi-derived GTPase for constitutive secretion, associates with mobile axonal cargo and localizes to nerve terminals. ELKS1 is a stationary presynaptic protein with Golgin homology that binds to Rab6. Knockout and rescue experiments for ELKS1 and Rab6 establish that ELKS1 captures Rab6 cargo. The ELKS1-Rab6-capturing mechanism can be transferred to mitochondria by mistargeting ELKS1 or Rab6 to them. We conclude that nerve terminals have repurposed mechanisms from constitutive exocytosis for their highly regulated secretion. By employing Golgin-like mechanisms with anchored ELKS extending its coiled-coils to capture Rab6 cargo, they have spatially separated cargo capture from fusion. ELKS complexes connect to active zones and may mediate vesicle progression toward release sites.
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