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NEURON
Volume 93, Issue 6, Pages 1405-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.031
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- NIH [NS36715, HD052680, NS073854]
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant [19607]
- Canadian Institute for Health Research
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H01277, 17K08541] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Learning depends on experience-dependent modification of synaptic efficacy and neuronal connectivity in the brain. We provide direct evidence for physiological roles of the recycling endosome protein GRASP1 in glutamatergic synapse function and animal behavior. Mice lacking GRASP1 showed abnormal excitatory synapse number, synaptic plasticity, and hippocampal-dependent learning and memory due to a failure in learning-induced synaptic AMPAR incorporation. We identified two GRASP1 point mutations from intellectual disability (ID) patients that showed convergent disruptive effects on AMPAR recycling and glutamate uncaginginduced structural and functional plasticity. Wildtype GRASP1, but not ID mutants, rescued spine loss in hippocampal CA1 neurons in Grasp1 knockout mice. Together, these results demonstrate a requirement for normal recycling endosome function in AMPAR-dependent synaptic function and neuronal connectivity in vivo, and suggest a potential role for GRASP1 in the pathophysiology of human cognitive disorders.
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