α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites

Lucas Matt, Karam Kim, Anne E. Hergarden, Tommaso Patriarchi, Zulfiqar A. Malik, Deborah K. Park, Dhrubajyoti Chowdhury, Olivia R. Buonarati, Peter B. Henderson, Çiğdem Gökçek Saraç, Yonghong Zhang, Durga Mohapatra, Mary C Horne, James B. Ames, Johannes W Hell

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Abstract

Despite the central role PSD-95 plays in anchoring postsynaptic AMPARs, how PSD-95 itself is tethered to postsynaptic sites is not well understood. Here we show that the F-actin binding protein α-actinin binds to the very N terminus of PSD-95. Knockdown (KD) of α-actinin phenocopies KD of PSD-95. Mutating lysine at position 10 or lysine at position 11 of PSD-95 to glutamate, or glutamate at position 53 or glutamate and aspartate at positions 213 and 217 of α-actinin, respectively, to lysine impairs, in parallel, PSD-95 binding to α-actinin and postsynaptic localization of PSD-95 and AMPARs. These experiments identify α-actinin as a critical PSD-95 anchor tethering the AMPAR-PSD-95 complex to postsynaptic sites. Matt et al. introduce α-actinin as a critical postsynaptic docking protein for PSD-95 and AMPARs. They found that disruption of the PSD-95-α-actinin interaction by point-mutating the essential residues on either protein leads to reduced synaptic localization of PSD-95 and AMPARs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalNeuron
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StateAccepted/In press - Jan 1 2018

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Actinin
Lysine
Glutamic Acid
Aspartic Acid
Proteins

Keywords

  • AMPA receptors
  • Dendritic spines
  • Hippocampus
  • PSD-95
  • Synapse
  • α-actinin

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Neuroscience(all)

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Matt, L., Kim, K., Hergarden, A. E., Patriarchi, T., Malik, Z. A., Park, D. K., ... Hell, J. W. (Accepted/In press). α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites. Neuron. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.036

α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites. / Matt, Lucas; Kim, Karam; Hergarden, Anne E.; Patriarchi, Tommaso; Malik, Zulfiqar A.; Park, Deborah K.; Chowdhury, Dhrubajyoti; Buonarati, Olivia R.; Henderson, Peter B.; Gökçek Saraç, Çiğdem; Zhang, Yonghong; Mohapatra, Durga; Horne, Mary C; Ames, James B.; Hell, Johannes W.

In: Neuron, 01.01.2018.

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Matt, L, Kim, K, Hergarden, AE, Patriarchi, T, Malik, ZA, Park, DK, Chowdhury, D, Buonarati, OR, Henderson, PB, Gökçek Saraç, Ç, Zhang, Y, Mohapatra, D, Horne, MC, Ames, JB & Hell, JW 2018, 'α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites', Neuron. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.036
Matt L, Kim K, Hergarden AE, Patriarchi T, Malik ZA, Park DK et al. α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites. Neuron. 2018 Jan 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.036
Matt, Lucas ; Kim, Karam ; Hergarden, Anne E. ; Patriarchi, Tommaso ; Malik, Zulfiqar A. ; Park, Deborah K. ; Chowdhury, Dhrubajyoti ; Buonarati, Olivia R. ; Henderson, Peter B. ; Gökçek Saraç, Çiğdem ; Zhang, Yonghong ; Mohapatra, Durga ; Horne, Mary C ; Ames, James B. ; Hell, Johannes W. / α-Actinin Anchors PSD-95 at Postsynaptic Sites. In: Neuron. 2018.
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