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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2010

Somatostatin signaling in neuronal cilia is critical for object recognition memory.

Emily B Einstein, Carlyn A Patterson, Beverly J Hon, Kathleen A Regan, Jyoti Reddi, David E Melnikoff, Marcus J Mateer, Stefan Schulz, Brian N Johnson, Melanie K Tallent

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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74 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Ciliary localization of a light-activated neuronal GPCR shapes behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Emily B EinsteinDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA.
Carlyn A Patterson
Beverly J Hon
Kathleen A Regan
Jyoti Reddi
David E Melnikoff
Marcus J Mateer
Stefan Schulz
Brian N Johnson
Melanie K Tallent
Drexel University · USFriedrich Schiller University Jena · DE

Funding

Developmental regulation of K+ M-current in brainR01NS048241 · NINDS · DREXEL UNIVERSITY · PI TALLENT, MELANIE K · 2004 to 2007
$1.1M
ROLE OF SOMATOSTATIN IN NORMAL AND EPILEPTIC BRAINR01NS038633 · NINDS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI TALLENT, MELANIE K · 1999 to 2002
$736k
NINDS NIH HHS NS048241NINDS NIH HHS NS38633NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038633NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS048241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most neurons possess a single, nonmotile cilium that projects out from the cell surface. These microtubule-based organelles are important in brain development and neurogenesis; however, their function in mature neurons is unknown. Cilia express a complement of proteins distinct from other neuronal compartments, one of which is the somatostatin receptor subtype SST(3). We show here that SST(3) is critical for object recognition memory in mice. sst3 knock-out mice are severely impaired in discriminating novel objects, whereas they retain normal memory for object location. Further, systemic injection of an SST(3) antagonist (ACQ090) disrupts recall of familiar objects in wild-type mice. To examine mechanisms of SST(3), we tested synaptic plasticity in CA1 hippocampus. Electrically evoked long-term potentiation (LTP) was normal in sst3 knock-out mice, while adenylyl cyclase/cAMP-mediated LTP was impaired. The SST(3) antagonist also disrupted cAMP-mediated LTP. Basal cAMP levels in hippocampal lysate were reduced in sst3 knock-out mice compared with wild-type mice, while the forskolin-induced increase in cAMP levels was normal. The SST(3) antagonist inhibited forskolin-stimulated cAMP increases, whereas the SST(3) agonist L-796,778 increased basal cAMP levels in hippocampal slices but not hippocampal lysate. Our results show that somatostatin signaling in neuronal cilia is critical for recognition memory and suggest that the cAMP pathway is a conserved signaling motif in cilia. Neuronal cilia therefore represent a novel nonsynaptic compartment crucial for signaling involved in a specific form of synaptic plasticity and in novelty detection.

Indexed as

1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthineAction PotentialsAdenylyl CyclasesAmidesAnimalsBehavior, AnimalBicucullineBiophysicsCA1 Region, HippocampalCiliaColforsinCyclic AMPDiscrimination, PsychologicalElectric StimulationFemaleGABA Antagonists1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine(4-(3,4-difluorophenyl)-piperazine-1-yl)-(2-(3-(6-methoxypyridin- 3-yl)-2-methylpropyl)decahydroisoquinoline-4-yl)methanoneadenylate cyclase 3Adenylyl CyclasesAmidesBicucullinebicuculline methochlorideColforsinCyclic AMPGABA AntagonistsIsoquinolinesL796778NitrobenzenesPhosphodiesterase InhibitorsReceptors, SomatostatinSomatostatinsomatostatin receptor 3

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PMID20335466
PMCPMC3842454
OpenAlexW2118869432

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