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NEURON
Volume 67, Issue 4, Pages 618-628Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.07.009
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- Dutch Organization for Medical Sciences (ZonMw)
- Life Sciences (ALW)
- Senter (Neuro-Bsik
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- Erasmus University
- NIH [NS62771]
- Prinses Beatrix Fonds
- SENSOPAC
- CEREBNET
- European Community
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Cerebellar motor learning is required to obtain procedural skills. Studies have provided supportive evidence for a potential role of kinase-mediated long-term depression (LTD) at the parallel fiber to Purkinje cell synapse in cerebellar learning. Recently, phosphatases have been implicated in the induction of potentiation of Purkinje cell activities in vitro, but it remains to be shown whether and how phosphatase-mediated potentiation contributes to motor learning. Here, we investigated its possible role by creating and testing a Purkinje cell-specific knockout of calcium/calmodulin-activated protein-phosphatase-2B (L7-PP2B). The selective deletion of PP2B indeed abolished postsynaptic long-term potentiation in Purkinje cells and their ability to increase their excitability, whereas LTD was unaffected. The mutants showed impaired gain-decrease and gain-increase adaptation of their vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) as well as impaired acquisition of classical delay conditioning of their eyeblink response. Thus, our data indicate that PP2B may indeed mediate potentiation in Purkinje cells and contribute prominently to cerebellar motor learning.
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