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Published 25 April 2005. doi:10.1083/jcb.200411012
The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525 $8.00
JCB, Volume 169, Number 2, 355-366
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 LL5ß : a regulator of postsynaptic differentiation identified in a screen for synaptically enriched transcripts at the neuromuscular junction



Masashi Kishi, Terrance T. Kummer, Stephen J. Eglen, and Joshua R. Sanes

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO 63110

Correspondence to Joshua R. Sanes: sanesj{at}mcb.harvard.edu

In both neurons and muscle fibers, specific mRNAs are concentrated beneath and locally translated at synaptic sites. At the skeletal neuromuscular junction, all synaptic RNAs identified to date encode synaptic components. Using microarrays, we compared RNAs in synapse-rich and -free regions of muscles, thereby identifying transcripts that are enriched near synapses and that encode soluble membrane and nuclear proteins. One gene product, LL5ß, binds to both phosphoinositides and a cytoskeletal protein, filamin, one form of which is concentrated at synaptic sites. LL5ß is itself associated with the cytoplasmic face of the postsynaptic membrane; its highest levels border regions of highest acetylcholine receptor (AChR) density, which suggests a role in "corraling" AChRs. Consistent with this idea, perturbing LL5ß expression in myotubes inhibits AChR aggregation. Thus, a strategy designed to identify novel synaptic components led to identification of a protein required for assembly of the postsynaptic apparatus.

M. Kishi's present addresses is Dept. of Anesthesiology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110.

S.J. Eglen's present address is Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK.

J.R. Sanes' present address is Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Abbreviations used in this paper: AChE; acetylcholinesterase; AChR, acetylcholine receptor; GAPDH, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; MuSK, muscle specific kinase; NMJ, neuromuscular junction; PH, pleckstrin homology; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; PKARI{alpha}, protein kinase A RI{alpha} subunit; rBTX, rhodamine-{alpha}-bungarotoxin; SAM, significance analysis of microarrays.


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