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- Title
Neuronal calcium sensor 1 and activity-dependent facilitation of P/Q-type calcium currents at presynaptic nerve terminals.
- Authors
Tsujimoto, Tetsuhiro; Jeromin, Andreas; Saitoh, Naoto; Roder, John C; Takahashi, Tomoyuki
- Abstract
P/Q-type presynaptic calcium currents (IpCa) undergo activity-dependent facilitation during repetitive activation at the calyx of the Held synapse. We investigated whether neuronal calcium sensor 1 (NCS-1) may underlie this phenomenon. Direct loading of NCS-1 into the nerve terminal mimicked activity-dependent IpCa facilitation by accelerating the activation time of IpCa in a Ca2+-dependent manner. A presynaptically loaded carboxyl-terminal peptide of NCS-1 abolished IpCa facilitation. These results suggest that residual Ca2+ activates endogenous NCS-1, thereby facilitating IpCa. Because both P/Q-type Ca2+ channels and NCS-1 are widely expressed in mammalian nerve terminals, NCS-1 may contribute to the activity-dependent synaptic facilitation at many synapses.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 295, Issue 5563, p2276
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1068278