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Control of neurotransmitter release by an internal gel matrix in synaptic vesicles.


ABSTRACT: Neurotransmitters are stored in synaptic vesicles, where they have been assumed to be in free solution. Here we report that in Torpedo synaptic vesicles, only 5% of the total acetylcholine (ACh) or ATP content is free, and that the rest is adsorbed to an intravesicular proteoglycan matrix. This matrix, which controls ACh and ATP release by an ion-exchange mechanism, behaves like a smart gel. That is, it releases neurotransmitter and changes its volume when challenged with small ionic concentration change. Immunodetection analysis revealed that the synaptic vesicle proteoglycan SV2 is the core of the intravesicular matrix and is responsible for immobilization and release of ACh and ATP. We suggest that in the early steps of vesicle fusion, this internal matrix regulates the availability of free diffusible ACh and ATP, and thus serves to modulate the quantity of transmitter released.

SUBMITTER: Reigada D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC152319 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Control of neurotransmitter release by an internal gel matrix in synaptic vesicles.

Reigada David D   Díez-Pérez Ismael I   Gorostiza Pau P   Verdaguer Albert A   Gómez de Aranda Inmaculada I   Pineda Oriol O   Vilarrasa Jaume J   Marsal Jordi J   Blasi Joan J   Aleu Jordi J   Solsona Carles C  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030310 6


Neurotransmitters are stored in synaptic vesicles, where they have been assumed to be in free solution. Here we report that in Torpedo synaptic vesicles, only 5% of the total acetylcholine (ACh) or ATP content is free, and that the rest is adsorbed to an intravesicular proteoglycan matrix. This matrix, which controls ACh and ATP release by an ion-exchange mechanism, behaves like a smart gel. That is, it releases neurotransmitter and changes its volume when challenged with small ionic concentrati  ...[more]

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