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CELL REPORTS
Volume 34, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108858
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- NIH [EY031677, EY10699, EY026070, EY01730, T32HD007183, EY07031]
- McPherson Eye Research Institute's Professorship
- Research to Prevent Blindness
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This study used a combination of techniques to determine the composition and organization of inhibitory synapses in a well-characterized RGC type in the mouse retina. The researchers found the presence of mixed GABA-glycine receptor synapses, as well as the sequence of postsynaptic assembly for these synapses. These findings reveal the characteristics of an additional motif of inhibition in the mammalian retina.
In the retina, amacrine interneurons inhibit retinal ganglion cell (RGC) dendrites to shape retinal output. Amacrine cells typically use either GABA or glycine to exert synaptic inhibition. Here, we combined transgenic tools with immunohistochemistry, electrophysiology, and 3D electron microscopy to determine the composition and organization of inhibitory synapses across the dendritic arbor of a well-characterized RGC type in the mouse retina: the ON-sustained alpha RGC. We find mixed GABA-glycine receptor synapses across this RGC type, unveiling the existence of mixed inhibitory synapses in the retinal circuit. Presynaptic amacrine boutons with dual release sites are apposed to ON-sustained alpha RGC postsynapses. We further reveal the sequence of postsynaptic assembly for these mixed synapses: GABA receptors precede glycine receptors, and a lack of early GABA receptor expression impedes the recruitment of glycine receptors. Together our findings uncover the organization and developmental profile of an additional motif of inhibition in the mammalian retina.
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