The infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, also called CLN1 disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the CLN1 gene encoding palmitoyl protein thioesterase 1 (PPT1). Identifying the depalmitoylation substrates of PPT1 is crucial for understanding CLN1 disease. In this study, we found that GABAR, the critical synaptic protein essential for inhibitory neurotransmission, is a substrate of PPT1. PPT1 depalmitoylates GABAR α1 subunit at Cystein-260, while binding to Cystein-165 and -179. Mutations of PPT1 or its GABAR α1 subunit binding site enhanced inhibitory synaptic transmission and strengthened oscillations powers but disrupted phase coupling in CA1 region and impaired learning and memory in 1- to 2-months-old PPT1-deficient and Gabra1 mice. Our study highlights the critical role of PPT1 in maintaining GABAR palmitoylation homeostasis and reveals a previously unknown molecular pathway in CLN1 diseases induced by PPT1 mutations.

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