期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 19, 页码 4202-4211出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0008-20.2021
关键词
Arc; hippocampus; LTP; memory; synaptic plasticity
资金
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation - Osterhaus Family
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health [R01MH112766]
Research shows that mice lacking the Arc gene do not exhibit deficits in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), indicating that Arc is not necessary for LTP in the hippocampus.
Memory consolidation is thought to occur through protein synthesis-dependent synaptic plasticity mechanisms such as longterm potentiation (LTP). Dynamic changes in gene expression and epigenetic modifications underlie the maintenance of LTP. Similar mechanisms may mediate the storage of memory. Key plasticity genes, such as the immediate early gene Arc, are induced by learning and by LTP induction. Mice that lack Arc have severe deficits in memory consolidation, and Arc has been implicated in numerous other forms of synaptic plasticity, including long-term depression and cell-to-cell signaling. Here, we take a comprehensive approach to determine if Arc is necessary for hippocampal LTP in male and female mice. Using a variety of Arc knock-out (KO) lines, we found that germline Arc KO mice show no deficits in CA1 LTP induced by high-frequency stimulation and enhanced LTP induced by theta-burst stimulation. Temporally restricting the removal of Arc to adult animals and spatially restricting it to the CA1 using Arc conditional KO mice did not have an effect on any form of LTP. Similarly, acute application of Arc antisense oligodeoxynucleotides had no effect on hippocampal CA1 LTP. Finally, the maintenance of in vivo LTP in the dentate gyrus of Arc KO mice was normal. We conclude that Arc is not necessary for hippocampal LTP and may mediate memory consolidation through alternative mechanisms.
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