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Overlapping role of synaptophysin and synaptogyrin family proteins in determining the small size of synaptic vesicles.

Daehun ParkKenshiro FujiseYumei WuRafael LujánSergio Del Olmo-CabreraJohn F WesselingPietro De Camilli
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2024)
Members of the synaptophysin and synaptogyrin family are vesicle proteins with four transmembrane domains. In spite of their abundance in synaptic vesicle (SV) membranes, their role remains elusive and only mild defects at the cellular and organismal level are observed in mice lacking one or more family members. Here, we show that coexpression with synapsin in fibroblasts of each of the four brain-enriched members of this family-synaptophysin, synaptoporin, synaptogyrin 1, and synaptogyrin 3-is sufficient to generate clusters of small vesicles in the same size range of SVs. Moreover, mice lacking all these four proteins have larger SVs. We conclude that synaptophysin and synaptogyrin family proteins play an overlapping function in the biogenesis of SVs and in determining their small size.
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