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Schizophrenia-Linked Protein tSNARE1 Regulates Endosomal Trafficking in Cortical Neurons

Journal

JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 41, Issue 45, Pages 9466-9481

Publisher

SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0556-21.2021

Keywords

endocytosis; GWAS; late endosome; schizophrenia; SNARE

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  1. National Institutes of Health [R01GM054712-23, R01NS105614, R35GM135160, R00MH113823, DP2MH122403, K01MH108894, F31MH116576, T32GM119999]
  2. Common Fund of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health
  3. National Cancer Institute
  4. National Human Genome Research Institute
  5. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  6. National Institute on Drug Abuse
  7. National Institute of Mental Health
  8. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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TSNARE1, a high-confidence gene candidate for schizophrenia risk, regulates endosomal trafficking in cortical neurons and may act as an inhibitory SNARE by competing for incorporation into endosomal SNARE complex. Its localization in endosomal network and late endosomes suggests a role in negative regulation of early endosomal to late endosomal trafficking.
TSNARE1, which encodes the protein tSNARE1, is a high-confidence gene candidate for schizophrenia risk, but nothing is known about its cellular or physiological function. We identified the major gene products of TSNARE1 and their cytoplasmic localization and function in endosomal trafficking in cortical neurons. We validated three primary isoforms of TSNARE1 expressed in human brain, all of which encode a syntaxin-like Qa SNARE domain. RNA-sequencing data from adult and fetal human brain suggested that the majority of tSNARE1 lacks a transmembrane domain that is thought to be necessary for membrane fusion. Biochemical data demonstrate that tSNARE1 can compete with Stx12 for incorporation into an endosomal SNARE complex, supporting its possible role as an inhibitory SNARE. Live-cell imaging in cortical neurons from mice of both sexes demonstrated that brain tSNARE1 isoforms localized to the endosomal network. The most abundant brain isoform, tSNARE1c, localized most frequently to Rab71 late endosomes, and endogenous tSNARE1 displayed a similar localization in human neural progenitor cells and neuroblastoma cells. In mature rat neurons from both sexes, tSNARE1 localized to the dendritic shaft and dendritic spines, supporting a role for tSNARE1 at the postsynapse. Expression of either tSNARE1b or tSNARE1c, which differ only in their inclusion or exclusion of an Myb-like domain, delayed the trafficking of the dendritic endosomal cargo Nsg1 into late endosomal and lysosomal compartments. These data suggest that tSNARE1 regulates endosomal trafficking in cortical neurons, likely by negatively regulating early endosomal to late endosomal trafficking.

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