Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Amyloid β oligomers suppress excitatory transmitter release via presynaptic depletion of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate

  • Yang He,
  • Mengdi Wei,
  • Yan Wu,
  • Huaping Qin,
  • Weinan Li,
  • Xiaolin Ma,
  • Jingjing Cheng,
  • Jinshuai Ren,
  • Ye Shen,
  • Zhong Chen,
  • Binggui Sun,
  • Fu-De Huang,
  • Yi Shen,
  • Yu-Dong Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09114-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The underlying mechanism of amyloid β (Aβ) oligomer-induced aberrant neurotransmitter release remains unclear. Here, authors show that the release probability at the synapse between the Schaffer collateral and CA1 pyramidal neurons is significantly reduced at an early stage in mouse models of AD with elevated Aβ production and is mainly due to an mGluR5-mediated depletion of PIP2 in axons.