Double open syntaxin and UNC-18 P334A mutation leads to excitatory-inhibitory imbalance and impairs multiple aspects of C. elegans behavior
Huang, M.; Wang, Y.; Chow, C. H.; Stepien, K.; Indrawinata, K.; Argiropoulos, P.; Xie, X.; Sugita, K.; Tien, C.-W.; Lee, S.; Monnier, P. P.; Rizo, J.; Gao, S.; Sugita, S.
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SNARE and Sec/Munc18 proteins are essential in synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Open form t-SNARE syntaxin and UNC-18 P334A are well-studied exocytosis-enhancing mutants. Here we investigate the interrelationship between the two mutations by generating double mutants in various genetic backgrounds in C. elegans. While each single mutation rescued the motility of CAPS/unc-31 and synaptotagmin/snt-1 mutants significantly, double mutations unexpectedly worsened motility or lost their rescuing effects. Electrophysiological analyses revealed that simultaneous mutations of open syntaxin and gain-of-function P334A UNC-18 induces a strong imbalance of excitatory over inhibitory transmission. In liposome fusion assays performed with mammalian proteins, the enhancement of fusion caused by the two mutations individually was abolished when the two mutations were introduced simultaneously, consistent with what we observed in C. elegans. We conclude that open syntaxin and P334A UNC-18 do not have additive beneficial effects, and this extends to C. elegans characteristics such as motility, growth, offspring bared, body size, and exocytosis, as well as liposome fusion in vitro. Our results also reveal unexpected differences between the regulation of exocytosis in excitatory versus inhibitory synapses.
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