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A molecular brake controls the magnitude of long-term potentiation

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A molecular brake controls the magnitude of long-term potentiation
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Nature Communications, January 2014
DOI 10.1038/ncomms4051
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Yubin Wang, Guoqi Zhu, Victor Briz, Yu-Tien Hsu, Xiaoning Bi, Michel Baudry

Abstract

Overexpression of suprachiasmatic nucleus circadian oscillatory protein (SCOP), a negative ERK regulator, blocks long-term memory encoding. Inhibition of calpain-mediated SCOP degradation also prevents the formation of long-term memory, suggesting rapid SCOP breakdown is necessary for memory encoding. However, whether SCOP levels also control the magnitude of long-term synaptic plasticity is unknown. Here we show that following synaptic activity-induced SCOP degradation, SCOP is rapidly replaced via mTOR-mediated protein synthesis. We further show that early SCOP degradation is specifically catalysed by μ-calpain, whereas late SCOP resynthesis is mediated by m-calpain. We propose that μ-calpain promotes long-term potentiation induction by degrading SCOP and activating ERK, whereas m-calpain activation limits the magnitude of potentiation by terminating the ERK response via enhanced SCOP synthesis. This unique braking mechanism could account for the advantages of spaced versus massed training in the formation of long-term memory.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
France 1 2%
Unknown 45 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 21%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 9%
Other 3 6%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 5 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 16 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 6%
Psychology 3 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 8 17%
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