An Essential Role for the Tetraspanin LHFPL4 in the Cell-Type-Specific Targeting and Clustering of Synaptic GABA Receptors

Overview

Journal Cell Rep

Publisher Cell Press

Specialties Biology
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2017 Oct 6

PMID 28978485

Citations 47

Authors

Elizabeth C Davenport

Valentina Pendolino

Georgina Kontou

Thomas P McGee

David F Sheehan

Guillermo Lopez-Domenech

Mark Farrant

Josef T Kittler

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Abstract

Inhibitory synaptic transmission requires the targeting and stabilization of GABA receptors (GABARs) at synapses. The mechanisms responsible remain poorly understood, and roles for transmembrane accessory proteins have not been established. Using molecular, imaging, and electrophysiological approaches, we identify the tetraspanin LHFPL4 as a critical regulator of postsynaptic GABAR clustering in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. LHFPL4 interacts tightly with GABAR subunits and is selectively enriched at inhibitory synapses. In LHFPL4 knockout mice, there is a dramatic cell-type-specific reduction in GABAR and gephyrin clusters and an accumulation of large intracellular gephyrin aggregates in vivo. While GABARs are still trafficked to the neuronal surface in pyramidal neurons, they are no longer localized at synapses, resulting in a profound loss of fast inhibitory postsynaptic currents. Hippocampal interneuron currents remain unaffected. Our results establish LHFPL4 as a synapse-specific tetraspanin essential for inhibitory synapse function and provide fresh insights into the molecular make-up of inhibitory synapses.

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