Abstract
ABSTRACTNeuronal dense-core vesicles (DCVs) contain neuropeptides and much larger proteins that affect synaptic growth and plasticity. Rather than using full collapse exocytosis that is common in endocrine cells, DCVs at a native intact synapse, theDrosophilaneuromuscular junction, release their contents via fusion pores formed by kiss and run exocytosis. Here fluorogen activating protein (FAP) imaging reveals the permeability range of synaptic DCV fusion pores and then shows that this constraint is circumvented by cAMP-induced extra fusions with dilating pores that result in DCV emptying. These Ca2+-independent full fusions require PKA-R2, a PKA phosphorylation site on the fusion clamp protein complexin and the acute presynaptic function of Rugose/Neurobeachin, a PKA-R2 anchor implicated in learning and autism. Therefore, localized Ca2+-independent cAMP signaling opens dilating fusion pores to release large cargo proteins that cannot pass through the narrower fusion pores that normally dominate spontaneous and Ca2+-evoked synaptic protein release. Hence, two independent exocytosis triggers (Ca2+and cAMP) vary the composition of released proteins at the synapse by differentially adjusting DCV fusion pores.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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