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- Title
Purkinje cell neurotransmission patterns cerebellar basket cells into zonal modules defined by distinct pinceau sizes.
- Authors
Joy Zhou; Brown, Amanda M.; Lackey, Elizabeth P.; Arancillo, Marife; Tao Lin; Sillitoe, Roy V.
- Abstract
Ramón y Cajal proclaimed the neuron doctrine based on circuit features he exemplified using cerebellar basket cell projections. Basket cells form dense inhibitory plexuses that wrap Purkinje cell somata and terminate as pinceaux at the initial segment of axons. Here, we demonstrate that HCN1, Kv1.1, PSD95 and GAD67 unexpectedly mark patterns of basket cell pinceaux that map onto Purkinje cell functional zones. Using cell-specific genetic tracing with an Ascl1CreERT2 mouse conditional allele, we reveal that basket cell zones comprise different sizes of pinceaux. We tested whether Purkinje cells instruct the assembly of inhibitory projections into zones, as they do for excitatory afferents. Genetically silencing Purkinje cell neurotransmission blocks the formation of sharp Purkinje cell zones and disrupts excitatory axon patterning. The distribution of pinceaux into size-specific zones is eliminated without Purkinje cell GABAergic output. Our data uncover the cellular and molecular diversity of a foundational synapse that revolutionized neuroscience.
- Subjects
PURKINJE cells; CEREBELLAR cortex; CELL aggregation; BASKETS; AFFERENT pathways; AXONS
- Publication
eLife, 2020, p1
- ISSN
2050-084X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7554/eLife.55569