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The actin-modulating protein synaptopodin mediates long-term survival of dendritic spines.


ABSTRACT: Large spines are stable and important for memory trace formation. The majority of large spines also contains synaptopodin (SP), an actin-modulating and plasticity-related protein. Since SP stabilizes F-actin, we speculated that the presence of SP within large spines could explain their long lifetime. Indeed, using 2-photon time-lapse imaging of SP-transgenic granule cells in mouse organotypic tissue cultures we found that spines containing SP survived considerably longer than spines of equal size without SP. Of note, SP-positive (SP+) spines that underwent pruning first lost SP before disappearing. Whereas the survival time courses of SP+ spines followed conditional two-stage decay functions, SP-negative (SP-) spines and all spines of SP-deficient animals showed single-phase exponential decays. This was also the case following afferent denervation. These results implicate SP as a major regulator of long-term spine stability: SP clusters stabilize spines, and the presence of SP indicates spines of high stability.

SUBMITTER: Yap K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717903 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The actin-modulating protein synaptopodin mediates long-term survival of dendritic spines.

Yap Kenrick K   Drakew Alexander A   Smilovic Dinko D   Rietsche Michael M   Paul Mandy H MH   Vuksic Mario M   Del Turco Domenico D   Deller Thomas T  

eLife 20201204


Large spines are stable and important for memory trace formation. The majority of large spines also contains synaptopodin (SP), an actin-modulating and plasticity-related protein. Since SP stabilizes F-actin, we speculated that the presence of SP within large spines could explain their long lifetime. Indeed, using 2-photon time-lapse imaging of SP-transgenic granule cells in mouse organotypic tissue cultures we found that spines containing SP survived considerably longer than spines of equal siz  ...[more]

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