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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 26, 2007, 27(52):14481-14493; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3847-07.2007

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Selective Targeting of Different Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Isoforms during Motoneuron–Myotube Synapse Formation in Culture and the Switch from an Immature to Mature Form of Synaptic Vesicle Cycling

Katsusuke Hata, Luis Polo-Parada, and Lynn T. Landmesser

Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4975

Correspondence should be addressed to Lynn T. Landmesser. Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4975. Email: lynn.landmesser{at}case.edu

Characterization of neuromuscular junction formation and function in mice lacking all neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) isoforms or only the 180 isoform demonstrated that the 180 isoform was required at adult synapses to maintain effective transmission with repetitive stimulation whereas the 140 and/or 120 isoform(s) were sufficient to mediate the downregulation of synaptic vesicle cycling along the axon after synapse formation. However, the expression and targeting of each isoform and its relationship to distinct forms of synaptic vesicle cycling before and after synapse formation was previously unknown. By transfecting chick motoneurons with fluorescently tagged mouse 180, 140 and 120 isoforms, we show that before myotube contact the 180 and 140 isoforms are expressed in distinct puncta along the axon which are sites of an immature form (Brefeldin A sensitive, L-type Ca²⁺ channel mediated) of vesicle cycling. After myotube contact the 140 and 180 isoforms are downregulated from the axon and selectively targeted to the presynaptic terminal. This coincided with the downregulation of vesicle cycling along the axon and the expression of the mature form (BFA insensitive, P/Q type Ca²⁺ channel mediated) of vesicle cycling at the terminal. The synaptic targeting of exogenously expressed 180 and 140 isoforms also occurred when chick motoneurons contacted +/+ mouse myotubes; however only the 180 but not the 140 isoform was targeted on contact with NCAM^–/– myotubes. These observations indicate that postsynaptic NCAM is required for the synaptic targeting of presynaptic 140 NCAM but that the localization of presynaptic 180 NCAM occurs via a different mechanism.

Key words: NCAM; synaptic vesicle cycling; presynaptic differentiation; neuromuscular junction formation; adhesion molecule targeting; calcium channels

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Received April 16, 2007; revised Oct. 31, 2007; accepted Nov. 21, 2007.

Correspondence should be addressed to Lynn T. Landmesser. Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4975. Email: lynn.landmesser{at}case.edu

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