Retaining synaptic AMPARs

Neuron. 2007 Sep 20;55(6):825-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.09.004.

Abstract

Endocytosis, exocytosis, and lateral diffusion are key mechanisms for AMPA receptor trafficking. Endocytosis of AMPARs and other postsynaptic proteins has been proposed to occur at specific endocytic zones (EZs), but the mechanisms that regulate this process are not at all clear. In this issue of Neuron, Lu et al. show that correct synaptic EZ positioning requires links between the GTPase dynamin-3 and the Homer/Shank complex.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Dynamin III / physiology
  • Endocytosis / physiology
  • Exocytosis / physiology
  • GTP Phosphohydrolases / physiology
  • Humans
  • Neurons / metabolism*
  • Receptors, AMPA / metabolism*
  • Synapses / physiology*
  • Transport Vesicles / physiology

Substances

  • Receptors, AMPA
  • GTP Phosphohydrolases
  • Dynamin III