Nature Communications (May 2020)

The netrin receptor UNC-40/DCC assembles a postsynaptic scaffold and sets the synaptic content of GABAA receptors

  • Xin Zhou,
  • Marine Gueydan,
  • Maelle Jospin,
  • Tingting Ji,
  • Aurore Valfort,
  • Bérangère Pinan-Lucarré,
  • Jean-Louis Bessereau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16473-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The netrin receptor UNC-40/DCC is required to recruit GABAAR at neuromuscular junctions in C. elegans. Here, the authors show that UNC-40/DCC assembles an intracellular synaptic scaffold, regulating the content of GABAAR and inhibitory neurotransmission.