PMID- 10570482 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20000118 LR - 20171116 IS - 1097-6256 (Print) IS - 1097-6256 (Linking) VI - 2 IP - 12 DP - 1999 Dec TI - Microtubule binding by CRIPT and its potential role in the synaptic clustering of PSD-95. PG - 1063-9 AB - CRIPT is a postsynaptic protein that binds selectively to the third PDZ domain (PDZ3) of PSD-95. Here we show that CRIPT also binds directly to microtubules, thereby linking PSD-95 to the microtubule cytoskeleton. Disrupting the CRIPT-PSD-95 interaction in cultured hippocampal neurons with a PDZ3-specific peptide prevented the association of PSD-95 with microtubules and inhibited the synaptic clustering of PSD-95, chapsyn-110/PSD-93 and GKAP (a PSD-95-binding protein). However, the number of synapses and the synaptic clustering of NMDA receptors were unaffected, suggesting that PSD-95-family proteins are not essential for the maintenance of synapses and the synaptic localization of NMDA receptors. FAU - Passafaro, M AU - Passafaro M AD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, HHMI/Wellman 423, 50 Blossom Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. FAU - Sala, C AU - Sala C FAU - Niethammer, M AU - Niethammer M FAU - Sheng, M AU - Sheng M LA - eng GR - NS35050/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Nat Neurosci JT - Nature neuroscience JID - 9809671 RN - 0 (Carrier Proteins) RN - 0 (Membrane Proteins) RN - 0 (Microtubule-Associated Proteins) RN - 0 (Nerve Tissue Proteins) RN - 0 (Peptide Fragments) RN - 0 (Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate) RN - 0 (Recombinant Fusion Proteins) RN - 0 (SAP90-PSD95 Associated Proteins) RN - 0 (Synaptophysin) RN - 0 (postsynaptic density proteins) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (CASK kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.17 (Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.4.4 (Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase) RN - EC 2.7.4.8 (Guanylate Kinases) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Motifs MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Amino Acid Substitution MH - Animals MH - COS Cells MH - *Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases MH - Carrier Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Guanylate Kinases MH - Hippocampus/cytology MH - Membrane Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Microtubule-Associated Proteins/metabolism MH - Microtubules/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Nerve Tissue Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Neurons/cytology/drug effects/enzymology/metabolism MH - Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism MH - Peptide Fragments/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology MH - Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/metabolism MH - Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology MH - SAP90-PSD95 Associated Proteins MH - Synapses/drug effects/enzymology/*metabolism MH - Synaptophysin/metabolism EDAT- 1999/11/26 09:00 MHDA- 2001/03/23 10:01 CRDT- 1999/11/26 09:00 PHST- 1999/11/26 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2001/03/23 10:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/11/26 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1038/15990 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Neurosci. 1999 Dec;2(12):1063-9. doi: 10.1038/15990.