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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 1, 1998, 18(17):6892-6904
N-Cadherin Redistribution during Synaptogenesis in
Hippocampal Neurons
Deanna L.
Benson1 and
Hidekazu
Tanaka2
1 Fishberg Research Center for Neurobiology and
2 Brookdale Center for Developmental and Molecular Biology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029
Cadherins are homophilic adhesion molecules that, together with
their intracellular binding partners the catenins, mediate adhesion and
signaling at a variety of intercellular junctions. This study shows
that neural (N)-cadherin and -catenin, an intracellular binding
partner for the classic cadherins, are present in axons and dendrites
before synapse formation and then cluster at developing synapses
between hippocampal neurons. N-cadherin is expressed initially at all
synaptic sites but rapidly becomes restricted to a subpopulation of
excitatory synaptic sites. Sites of GABAergic, inhibitory synapses in
mature cultures therefore lack N-cadherin but are associated with
clusters of -catenin, implying that they contain a different classic
cadherin. These findings indicate that N-cadherin adhesion may
stabilize early synapses that can then be remodeled to express a
different cadherin and that cadherins systematically differentiate
between functionally (excitatory and inhibitory) and spatially distinct
synaptic sites on single neurons. These results suggest that
differential cadherin expression may orchestrate the point-to-point
specificity displayed by developing synapses.
Key words:
N-cadherin; -catenin; synaptogenesis; synaptic
junctional complex; presynaptic membrane; postsynaptic membrane; PSD; wnt/wingless
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/18176892-13$05.00/0
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