Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Autophagy controls the induction and developmental decline of NMDAR-LTD through endocytic recycling

  • Hongmei Shen,
  • Huiwen Zhu,
  • Debabrata Panja,
  • Qinhua Gu,
  • Zheng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16794-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression (NMDAR-LTD) is a form of synaptic plasticity mediated by reduced recycling of AMPA receptors to the plasma membrane. Here the authors show that autophagy is a regulator of this endocytic recycling and autophagy upregulation dampens NMDAR-LTD in adulthood.