1 The The ‘ Life Cycle Life Cycle’ of Neuromuscular Synapses of Neuromuscular Synapses Homeostatic regulation of synaptic strength and the safety factor for neuromuscular transmission 1. Structure and quantal analysis of function 2. Size-strength regulation and plasticity 3. Myasthenias 4. Insights from Drosophila Frog Rat Man The size of NMJ and the extent of junctional folding vary between species Frog Rat Man NMJ size and muscle mibre diameter are correlated 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 0 50 100 150 200 Synaptic area Frog Rat Man Evoked release and NMJ area are correlated Desaki & Uehara, 1981 Wood & Slater (1997)
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The The ‘‘Life CycleLife Cycle’’ of Neuromuscular Synapses of Neuromuscular Synapses
Homeostatic regulation of synaptic strength andthe safety factor for neuromuscular transmission
1. Structure and quantal analysis of function
2. Size-strength regulation and plasticity
3. Myasthenias
4. Insights from Drosophila
Frog
Rat
Man
The size of NMJ and the extent of junctional folding vary between species
Frog
Rat
Man
NMJ size and muscle mibre diameter are correlated
0 250 500 750 1000 1250 15000
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100
150
200
Synaptic area
Frog
Rat
Man
Evoked release and NMJ area are correlated
Desaki & Uehara, 1981
Wood & Slater (1997)
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Action potential
…add µ-conotoxinX
…add d-tubocurarine
Measuring EPP’s….
Ch.2
10 mV
5.00 ms
Latency
(1-2 ms)
Amplitude
(1-40 mV)
Rise Time(1-2 ms) Half-decay Time
(2-3 ms)
Typically-measured characteristics of the EPP (or MEPP)
Desaki & Uehara, 1981
IV
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Voltage clamp
End-Plate Current (EPC)
2 ms
200,000 channels
20 mV
End-Plate Potential (EPP)
τ = RINCmR CR
R
EACh
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ntSynaptic size-strength regulation compensates for diameter-input resistance
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NMJ operate with a ʻsafety factorʼ of 3-5
Wood SJ, Slater CR. The contribution ofpostsynaptic folds to the safety factor forneuromusculartransmission in rat fast-and slow-twitch muscles.J Physiol. 1997Apr 1;500 ( Pt 1):165-76.PMID: 9097941
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Rewind to 1952…
Quantal Analysis
“The neuromuscularjunction... [is] anexperimentally favourableobject whose study couldthrow considerable lighton synaptic mechanismselsewhere”
Sir Bernard Katz, FennLecture, IUPS Glasgow,1993
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Desaki & Uehara, 1981, J Neurocytol 10,101
MEPPs
Synaptic recordings from the frog NMJ: B. Katz et al.
EPPs
Mini analysis
Fatt & Katz, 1952, JPhysiol
Amplitude
Interval
Ch0
-5 mV 5.00 ms
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Quantal size = Effect of one vesicle release (MEPC/MEPP)
Quantal content = Number of vesicles released (EPC/EPP)
Myasthenia gravis and LEMS are autoimmune diseases
LEMS: Ca channelantibodies
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Summary of electrophysiological changes inMyasthenia Gravis and Myasthenic Syndrome
(NI=Normal Individual)
Synaptic basal lamina and acetylcholinesterase
C h .0
5 m V
5 .0 0 m s
C h.0
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Half Decay Time
T1 T2 T3 T40
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Neostigmine (5µM)
EPP Train Number
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Neostigmine (5 µM)
Control
Kosala Dissanayake
Anticholinesterases enhance EPP amplitude and prolong EPP decay time
dTC dTC neo sux sux sux neo direct
Myasthenic Syndrome(LEMS):
EMG
EPP’s have low quantal contentand show facilitation
EPP
Normal
LEMS
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0 Ca +Ca +4AP TTXDirectDirect +Mg +4AP
Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes
Palace & Beeson (2008) J Neuroimmunol
Plasticity/Homeostasis of Drosophila NMJ
Drosophila 3rd Instar fillet
Drosophila NMJ - Scanning EM
Yoshihara et al (1997) J Neurosci 17, 8408- 8426
Drosophila NMJKarunanithi, S. et al.(2002) J Neurosci 22,10267-10276.
Renger et al (2000) J Neurosci 20,3980-3992
Sub-Synaptic Reticulum
T-bar
PSD
Jiao et al (2010) J Struct Biol In press
Central Core
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IN 0
5 mV
5.00 ms
Drosophila Larval NMJ
EPPS in 5 mM Mg 2+NC82 immunostainfor bruchpilot
IN 0
5 mV
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50 µm
Davis & Goodman, 1998 Nature 392,82-86
Davis & Goodman, 1998 Nature 392,82-86
Davis & Goodman, 1998 Nature 392,82-86
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SUMMARY
Statistical analysis of synaptic potential amplitudes shows that transmitter release is “quantized”. Neuromuscular junctions operate with a high “safety- factor”, secured in part by the endplate-size to fibre diameter ratio.
Defects in transmitter release, sensitivity and size- strength relationships lead to various ʻmyasthenicʼ syndromes, characterised by significant muscle weakness.
Studies on Drosophila NMJ may provide insight into reciprocal, independent, ʻhomeostaticʼ regulation of transmitter release and endplate sensitivity.