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Deletion of VPS50 protein in mice brain impairs synaptic function and behavior

Ahumada-Marchant, C.; Ancaten-Gonzalez, C.; Haensgen, H.; Brauer, B.; Arancibia, F.; Droste, R.; Horvitz, H. R.; Constantine-Paton, M.; Arriagada, G.; Chavez, A.; Bustos, F. J.

2023-07-05 neuroscience
10.1101/2023.07.04.547745 bioRxiv
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VPS50, is an accessory protein, involved in the synaptic and dense core vesicle acidification and its alterations produce behavioral changes in C.elegans. Here, we produce the mosaic knock out (mKO) of VPS50 using CRISPR/Cas9 system in both cortical cultured neurons and whole animals to evaluate the effect of VPS50 in regulating mammalian brain function and behavior. While mKO of VPS50 does not change the number of synaptic vesicles, it produces a mislocalization of the V-ATPase pump that likely impact in vesicle acidification and vesicle content to impair synaptic and neuronal activity in cultured neurons. In mice, mKO of VPS50 in the hippocampus, alter synaptic transmission and plasticity, and generated robust cognitive impairments associate to memory formation. We propose that VPS50 is an accessory protein that aids the correct recruitment of the V-ATPase pump to synaptic vesicles, thus having a crucial role controlling synaptic vesicle acidification and hence synaptic transmission.

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