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LTP Induction Boosts Glutamate Spillover by Driving Withdrawal of Perisynaptic Astroglia.

ABSTRACT: Extrasynaptic actions of glutamate are limited by high-affinity transporters expressed by perisynaptic astroglial processes (PAPs): this helps maintain point-to-point transmission in excitatory circuits. Memory formation in the brain is associated with synaptic remodeling, but how this affects PAPs and therefore extrasynaptic glutamate actions is poorly understood. Here, we used advanced imaging methods, in situ and in vivo, to find that a classical synaptic memory mechanism, long-term potentiation (LTP), triggers withdrawal of PAPs from potentiated synapses. Optical glutamate sensors combined with patch-clamp and 3D molecular localization reveal that LTP induction thus prompts spatial retreat of astroglial glutamate transporters, boosting glutamate spillover and NMDA-receptor-mediated inter-synaptic cross-talk. The LTP-triggered PAP withdrawal involves NKCC1 transporters and the actin-controlling protein cofilin but does not depend on major Ca²⁺-dependent cascades in astrocytes. We have therefore uncovered a mechanism by which a memory trace at one synapse could alter signal handling by multiple neighboring connections.

SUBMITTER: Henneberger C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736499 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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LTP Induction Boosts Glutamate Spillover by Driving Withdrawal of Perisynaptic Astroglia.

Henneberger Christian C Bard Lucie L Panatier Aude A Reynolds James P JP Kopach Olga O Medvedev Nikolay I NI Minge Daniel D Herde Michel K MK Anders Stefanie S Kraev Igor I Heller Janosch P JP Rama Sylvain S Zheng Kaiyu K Jensen Thomas P TP Sanchez-Romero Inmaculada I Jackson Colin J CJ Janovjak Harald H Ottersen Ole Petter OP Nagelhus Erlend Arnulf EA Oliet Stephane H R SHR Stewart Michael G MG Nägerl U Valentin UV Rusakov Dmitri A DA

Neuron 20200924 5

Extrasynaptic actions of glutamate are limited by high-affinity transporters expressed by perisynaptic astroglial processes (PAPs): this helps maintain point-to-point transmission in excitatory circuits. Memory formation in the brain is associated with synaptic remodeling, but how this affects PAPs and therefore extrasynaptic glutamate actions is poorly understood. Here, we used advanced imaging methods, in situ and in vivo, to find that a classical synaptic memory mechanism, long-term potentiat ...[more]

PMID: 32976770

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LTP Induction Boosts Glutamate Spillover by Driving Withdrawal of Perisynaptic Astroglia.

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