Synaptic vesicle recycling: steps and principles

Abstract: Synaptic vesicle recycling is one of the best‐studied cellular pathways. Many of the proteins involved are known, and their interactions are becoming increasingly clear. However, as for many other pathways, it is still difficult to understand synaptic vesicle recycling as a whole. While it is generally possible to point out how synaptic reactions take place, it is not always easy to understand what triggers or controls them. Also, it is often difficult to understand how the availability of the reaction partners is controlled: how the reaction partners manage to find each other in the right place, at the right time. I present here an overview of synaptic vesicle recycling, discussing the mechanisms that trigger different reactions, and those that ensure the availability of reaction partners. A central argument is that synaptic vesicles bind soluble cofactor proteins, with low affinity, and thus control their availability in the synapse, forming a buffer for cofactor proteins. The availability of cofactor proteins, in turn, regulates the different synaptic reactions. Similar mechanisms, in which one of the reaction partners buffers another, may apply to many other processes, from the biogenesis to the degradation of the synaptic vesicle.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Synaptic vesicle recycling: steps and principles ; volume:33 ; number:8 ; year:2014 ; pages:788-822 ; extent:34
The EMBO journal / European Molecular Biology Organization ; 33, Heft 8 (2014), 788-822 (gesamt 34)

Creator
Rizzoli, Silvio O.

DOI
10.1002/embj.201386357
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023011704460304857826
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