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Synaptic vesicle pools are a major hidden resting metabolic burden of nerve terminals.


ABSTRACT: The brain is a metabolically fragile organ as compromises in fuel availability rapidly degrade cognitive function. Nerve terminals are likely loci of this vulnerability as they do not store sufficient ATP molecules, needing to synthesize them during activity or suffer acute degradation in performance. The ability of on-demand ATP synthesis to satisfy activity-driven ATP hydrolysis will depend additionally on the magnitude of local resting metabolic processes. We show here that synaptic vesicle (SV) pools are a major source of presynaptic basal energy consumption. This basal metabolic processes arises from SV-resident V-ATPases compensating for a hidden resting H+ efflux from the SV lumen. We show that this steady-state H+ efflux (i) is mediated by vesicular neurotransmitter transporters, (ii) is independent of the SV cycle, (iii) accounts for up to 44% of the resting synaptic energy consumption, and (iv) contributes substantially to nerve terminal intolerance of fuel deprivation.

SUBMITTER: Pulido C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8641928 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Synaptic vesicle pools are a major hidden resting metabolic burden of nerve terminals.

Pulido Camila C   Ryan Timothy A TA  

Science advances 20211203 49


The brain is a metabolically fragile organ as compromises in fuel availability rapidly degrade cognitive function. Nerve terminals are likely loci of this vulnerability as they do not store sufficient ATP molecules, needing to synthesize them during activity or suffer acute degradation in performance. The ability of on-demand ATP synthesis to satisfy activity-driven ATP hydrolysis will depend additionally on the magnitude of local resting metabolic processes. We show here that synaptic vesicle (  ...[more]

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