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Experience-dependent increase in CA1 place cell spatial information, but not spatial reproducibility, is dependent on the autophosphorylation of the alpha-isoform of the calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II.
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The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience [J Neurosci] 2007 Jul 18; Vol. 27 (29), pp. 7854-9. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Place cells in hippocampal area CA1 are essential for spatial learning and memory. Here, we examine whether daily exposure to a previously unexplored environment can alter place cell properties. We demonstrate two previously unreported slowly developing plasticities in mouse place fields: both the spatial tuning and the trial-to-trial reproducibility of CA1 place fields improve over days. We asked whether these two components of improved spatial coding rely on the alpha-isoform of the calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (alphaCaMKII) autophosphorylation, an effector mechanism of NMDA receptor-dependent long-term potentiation and an essential molecular process for spatial memory formation. We show that, in mice with deficient autophosphorylation of alphaCaMKII, the spatial tuning of place fields is initially similar to that of wild-type mice, but completely fails to show the experience-dependent increase over days. In contrast, place field reproducibility in the mutants, although impaired, does show the experience-dependent increase over days. Consequently, the progressive improvement in spatial coding in new hippocampal place cell maps depends on the existence of two molecularly dissociable, experience-dependent processes.
- Subjects :
- Analysis of Variance
Animals
Behavior, Animal
Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2
Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases genetics
Electric Stimulation methods
Long-Term Potentiation physiology
Long-Term Potentiation radiation effects
Male
Maze Learning physiology
Mice
Mice, Transgenic
Neuronal Plasticity physiology
Phosphorylation
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate physiology
Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases metabolism
Hippocampus cytology
Learning physiology
Neurons physiology
Spatial Behavior physiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1529-2401
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 29
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17634379
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1704-07.2007