Yang, Yue and Wong, Man Ho and Huang, Xiaojie and Chiu, Delia N and Liu, Yu-Zhang and Prabakaran, Vishnu and Imran, Amna and Panzeri, Elisa and Chen, Yixuan and Huguet, Paloma and Kunisky, Alexander and Ho, Jonathan and Dong, Yan and Carter, Brett C and Xu, Weifeng and Schlüter, Oliver M
(2025)
Distinct transmission sites within a synapse for strengthening and homeostasis.
Science Advances, 11 (15).
ISSN 2375-2548
Abstract
At synapses, miniature synaptic transmission forms the basic unit of evoked transmission, thought to use one canonical transmission site. Two general types of synaptic plasticity, associative plasticity to change synaptic weights and homeostatic plasticity to maintain an excitatory balance, are so far thought to be expressed at individual canonical sites in principal neurons of the cortex. Here, we report two separate types of transmission sites, termed silenceable and idle-able, each participating distinctly in evoked or miniature transmission in the mouse visual cortex. Both sites operated with a postsynaptic binary mode with different unitary sizes and mechanisms. During postnatal development, silenceable sites were unsilenced by associative plasticity with α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA)-receptor incorporation, increasing evoked transmission. Concurrently, miniature transmission remained constant, where AMPA-receptor state changes balanced unsilencing with increased idling at idle-able sites. Thus, individual cortical spine synapses mediated two parallel, interacting types of transmission, which predominantly contributed to either associative or homeostatic plasticity.
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| Yang, Yue | | | | | Wong, Man Ho | | | | | Huang, Xiaojie | | | | | Chiu, Delia N | | | | | Liu, Yu-Zhang | | | | | Prabakaran, Vishnu | | | | | Imran, Amna | | | | | Panzeri, Elisa | | | | | Chen, Yixuan | | | | | Huguet, Paloma | | | | | Kunisky, Alexander | | | | | Ho, Jonathan | | | | | Dong, Yan | | | | | Carter, Brett C | | | | | Xu, Weifeng | | | | | Schlüter, Oliver M | schluter@pitt.edu | schluter | 0009-0009-4222-3396 |
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11 April 2025 |
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Science Advances |
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11 |
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15 |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Neuroscience |
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Yes |
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2375-2548 |
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NIMH |
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Research Article |
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40215296 |
| Date Deposited: |
18 Apr 2025 16:44 |
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18 Apr 2025 16:44 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/48538 |
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