Impaired GABAergic transmission and altered hippocampal synaptic plasticity in collybistin-deficient mice
Open Access
- 9 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in The EMBO Journal
- Vol. 26 (17), 3888-3899
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.emboj.7601819
Abstract
Collybistin (Cb) is a brain‐specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor that has been implicated in plasma membrane targeting of the postsynaptic scaffolding protein gephyrin found at glycinergic and GABAergic synapses. Here we show that Cb‐deficient mice display a region‐specific loss of postsynaptic gephyrin and GABAA receptor clusters in the hippocampus and the basolateral amygdala. Cb deficiency is accompanied by significant changes in hippocampal synaptic plasticity, due to reduced dendritic GABAergic inhibition. Long‐term potentiation is enhanced, and long‐term depression reduced, in Cb‐deficient hippocampal slices. Consistent with the anatomical and electrophysiological findings, the animals show increased levels of anxiety and impaired spatial learning. Together, our data indicate that Cb is essential for gephyrin‐dependent clustering of a specific set of GABAA receptors, but not required for glycine receptor postsynaptic localization.This publication has 51 references indexed in Scilit:
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