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Adult medial habenula neurons require GDNF receptor GFRα1 for synaptic stability and function

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PLOS BIOLOGY
卷 19, 期 11, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001350

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  1. Swedish Research Council [2016-01538, 2020-01923]
  2. National Research Foundation of Singapore [R-711-000-052-281]
  3. karolinska institutet [2016fobi50068]
  4. Swedish Research Council [2020-01923, 2016-01538] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council

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The research on adult mice revealed that GFR alpha 1 plays a crucial role in maintaining and functioning of glutamatergic synapses. Loss of GFR alpha 1 leads to alterations in the stability and functionality of synapses, impacting anxiety and fear behaviors.
The medial habenula (mHb) is an understudied small brain nucleus linking forebrain and midbrain structures controlling anxiety and fear behaviors. The mechanisms that maintain the structural and functional integrity of mHb neurons and their synapses remain unknown. Using spatiotemporally controlled Cre-mediated recombination in adult mice, we found that the glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor receptor alpha 1 (GFR alpha 1) is required in adult mHb neurons for synaptic stability and function. mHb neurons express some of the highest levels of GFR alpha 1 in the mouse brain, and acute ablation of GFR alpha 1 results in loss of septohabenular and habenulointerpeduncular glutamatergic synapses, with the remaining synapses displaying reduced numbers of presynaptic vesicles. Chemo- and optogenetic studies in mice lacking GFR alpha 1 revealed impaired circuit connectivity, reduced AMPA receptor postsynaptic currents, and abnormally low rectification index (R.I.) of AMPARs, suggesting reduced Ca2+ permeability. Further biochemical and proximity ligation assay (PLA) studies defined the presence of GluA1/GluA2 (Ca2+ impermeable) as well as GluA1/GluA4 (Ca2+ permeable) AMPAR complexes in mHb neurons, as well as clear differences in the levels and association of AMPAR subunits with mHb neurons lacking GFR alpha 1. Finally, acute loss of GFR alpha 1 in adult mHb neurons reduced anxiety-like behavior and potentiated context-based fear responses, phenocopying the effects of lesions to septal projections to the mHb. These results uncover an unexpected function for GFR alpha 1 in the maintenance and function of adult glutamatergic synapses and reveal a potential new mechanism for regulating synaptic plasticity in the septohabenulointerpeduncular pathway and attuning of anxiety and fear behaviors.

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