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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 1999, 19(5):1557-1565
The Optically Determined Size of Exo/Endo Cycling Vesicle Pool Correlates with the Quantal Content at the Neuromuscular Junction of Drosophila Larvae
Hiroshi Kuromi and Yoshiaki Kidokoro Institute for Behavioral Sciences, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-22, Showa-machi, Maebashi, 371-8511, Japan
According to the current theory of synaptic transmission, the amplitude of evoked synaptic potentials correlates with the number of synaptic vesicles released at the presynaptic terminals. Synaptic vesicles in presynaptic boutons constitute two distinct pools, namely, exo/endo cycling and reserve pools (Kuromi and Kidokoro, 1998a). We defined the vesicles that were endocytosed and exocytosed during high K+ stimulation as the exo/endo cycling vesicle pool. To determine the role of exo/endo cycling vesicle pool in synaptic transmission, we estimated the quantal content electrophysiologically, whereas the pool size was determined optically using fluorescent dye FM1-43. We then manipulated the size of the pool with following treatments. First, to change the state of boutons of nerve terminals, motoneuronal axons were severed. With this treatment, the size of exo/endo cycling vesicle pool decreased together with the quantal content. Second, we promoted the FM1-43 uptake using cyclosporin A, which inhibits calcineurin activities and enhances endocytosis. Cyclosporin A increased the total uptake of FM1-43, but neither the size of exo/endo cycling vesicle pool nor the quantal content changed. Third, we increased the size of exo/endo cycling vesicle pool by forskolin, which enhances synaptic transmission. The forskolin treatment increased both the size of exo/endo cycling vesicle pool and the quantal content. Thus, we found that the quantal content was closely correlated with the size of exo/endo cycling vesicle pool but not necessarily with the total uptake of FM1-43 fluorescence by boutons. The results suggest that vesicles in the exo/endo cycling pool primarily participate in evoked exocytosis of vesicles.
Key words: synaptic vesicle pools; FM1-43; quantal con tent; neuromuscular junction; Drosophila larva; forskolin; cyclosporin A
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/1951557-09$05.00/0
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