Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

SIPA1L2 controls trafficking and local signaling of TrkB-containing amphisomes at presynaptic terminals

  • Maria Andres-Alonso,
  • Mohamed Raafet Ammar,
  • Ioana Butnaru,
  • Guilherme M. Gomes,
  • Gustavo Acuña Sanhueza,
  • Rajeev Raman,
  • PingAn Yuanxiang,
  • Maximilian Borgmeyer,
  • Jeffrey Lopez-Rojas,
  • Syed Ahsan Raza,
  • Nicola Brice,
  • Torben J. Hausrat,
  • Tamar Macharadze,
  • Silvia Diaz-Gonzalez,
  • Mark Carlton,
  • Antonio Virgilio Failla,
  • Oliver Stork,
  • Michaela Schweizer,
  • Eckart D. Gundelfinger,
  • Matthias Kneussel,
  • Christina Spilker,
  • Anna Karpova,
  • Michael R. Kreutz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13224-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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There is growing evidence that autophagy might serve specialized functions in neurons besides its role in protein homeostasis. In this study, authors demonstrate that axonal retrograde transport of BDNF/TrkB in neuronal amphisomes is involved in plasticity-relevant local signaling at presynaptic boutons and that SIPA1L2, a member of the SIPA1L family of neuronal RapGAPs, associates via LC3b to TrkB-containing amphisomes to regulate its motility and signaling at the axon terminals