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Activity-dependent retrograde laminin A signaling regulates synapse growth at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions.


ABSTRACT: Retrograde signals induced by synaptic activities are derived from postsynaptic cells to potentiate presynaptic properties, such as cytoskeletal dynamics, gene expression, and synaptic growth. However, it is not known whether activity-dependent retrograde signals can also depotentiate synaptic properties. Here we report that laminin A (LanA) functions as a retrograde signal to suppress synapse growth at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions (NMJs). The presynaptic integrin pathway consists of the integrin subunit ?? and focal adhesion kinase 56 (Fak56), both of which are required to suppress crawling activity-dependent NMJ growth. LanA protein is localized in the synaptic cleft and only muscle-derived LanA is functional in modulating NMJ growth. The LanA level at NMJs is inversely correlated with NMJ size and regulated by larval crawling activity, synapse excitability, postsynaptic response, and anterograde Wnt/Wingless signaling, all of which modulate NMJ growth through LanA and ??. Our data indicate that synaptic activities down-regulate levels of the retrograde signal LanA to promote NMJ growth.

SUBMITTER: Tsai PI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3491500 | biostudies-other | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Activity-dependent retrograde laminin A signaling regulates synapse growth at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions.

Tsai Pei-I PI   Wang Manyu M   Kao Hsiu-Hua HH   Cheng Ying-Ju YJ   Lin Yu-Jing YJ   Chen Ruey-Hwa RH   Chien Cheng-Ting CT  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121010 43


Retrograde signals induced by synaptic activities are derived from postsynaptic cells to potentiate presynaptic properties, such as cytoskeletal dynamics, gene expression, and synaptic growth. However, it is not known whether activity-dependent retrograde signals can also depotentiate synaptic properties. Here we report that laminin A (LanA) functions as a retrograde signal to suppress synapse growth at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions (NMJs). The presynaptic integrin pathway consists of the i  ...[more]

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