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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Layer-specific control of inhibition by NDNF interneurons.

Laura Bella Naumann, Loreen Hertäg, Jennifer Müller, Johannes J Letzkus, Henning Sprekeler

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Laura Bella NaumannInstitute of Science Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-7919-7349
Loreen HertägModelling of Cognitive Processes, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin 10587, Germany.
Jennifer MüllerInstitute for Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-7039-7555
Johannes J LetzkusInstitute for Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5678-3030
Henning SprekelerModelling of Cognitive Processes, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin 10587, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0690-3553

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 460088091Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) CRC-TRR 384/1 2024 - 514483642Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) LE 3804/3-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) LE 3804/4-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) LE 3804/7-1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (WT) 214316/Z/18/Z
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Abstract

Neuronal processing of external sensory input is shaped by internally generated top-down information. In the neocortex, top-down projections primarily target layer 1, which contains NDNF (neuron-derived neurotrophic factor)-expressing interneurons and the dendrites of pyramidal cells. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that NDNF interneurons shape cortical computations in an unconventional, layer-specific way, by exerting presynaptic inhibition on synapses in layer 1 while leaving synapses in deeper layers unaffected. We first confirm experimentally that in the auditory cortex, synapses from somatostatin-expressing (SOM) onto NDNF neurons are indeed modulated by ambient Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Shifting to a computational model, we then show that this mechanism introduces a distinct mutual inhibition motif between NDNF interneurons and the synaptic outputs of SOM interneurons. This motif can control inhibition in a layer-specific way and introduces competition between NDNF and SOM interneurons for dendritic inhibition onto pyramidal cells on different timescales. NDNF interneurons can thereby control cortical information flow by redistributing dendritic inhibition from fast to slow timescales and by gating different sources of dendritic inhibition.

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Auditory CortexInterneuronsNeural InhibitionAnimalsDendritesgamma-Aminobutyric AcidMiceModels, NeurologicalPyramidal CellsSomatostatinSynapsesgamma-Aminobutyric AcidSomatostatingatinginformation processinginterneuronspredictive codingpresynaptic inhibition

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PMID39841147
PMCPMC11789034

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