GABAergic and glutamatergic axons innervate the axon initial segment and organize GABAA receptor clusters of cultured hippocampal pyramidal cells

被引:43
作者
Christie, SB [1 ]
De Blas, AL [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Connecticut, Dept Physiol & Neurobiol, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
关键词
synapse; glutamate receptor; hippocampus; dendrites; synaptic competition; pyramidal neuron;
D O I
10.1002/cne.10535
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
We have studied gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) receptor (GABA(A)R) clustering within the axon initial segment (AIS) in low-density cultures of hippocampal pyramidal cells following GABAergic and glutamatergic innervation of the AIS. Large, intensely fluorescent, and postsynaptic GABA(A)R clusters were present in the AIS. More than 95% of these clusters colocalized with presynaptic GABAergic or glutamatergic terminals, forming matched or mismatched synapses, respectively. Less than 5% of the GABA(A)R clusters of the AIS did not colocalize with GABAergic or glutamatergic terminals, suggesting that GABA(A)Rs normally do not form clusters unless the AIS received GABAergic or glutamatergic innervation. Few or no clusters of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionate (AMPA) receptors or the postsynaptic density-95 protein (PSD-95) were found in the AIS, even when the AIS was innervated by glutamatergic axons. Glutamatergic innervation of the AIS that formed mismatched synapses with postsynaptic GABA(A)R clusters mainly occurred when the AIS did not receive GABAergic innervation. However, when the AIS was innervated by GABAergic axons, the formation of matched GABAergic synapses predominated and coincided with large reductions in both the density of glutamatergic terminals from the AIS and the mismatching of GABA(A)R clusters. A similar effect was observed at axo-dendritic synapses, where GABAergic innervation also led to a large decrease in mismatched GABA(A)R clusters and a smaller, but significant, decrease in glutamatergic terminal density in dendrites that received GABAergic innervation. We hypothesize that competition between GABAergic and glutamatergic innervation of the AIS in the intact hippocampus leads to the exclusive presence of GABAergic inhibitory synapses in the AIS of pyramidal cells. (C) 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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