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ArticleNeuron2026

Hippocampal place code plasticity in CA1 requires postsynaptic membrane fusion.

Mark H Plitt, Konstantin Kaganovsky, Ella Say, Marielena Sosa, Thomas C Südhof, Lisa M Giocomo

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Article in Neuron, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The human intelligence evolved from proximalQuantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2025
    Article
  2. Syntaxin 3B: A SNARE Protein Required for Vision.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  3. Reward Expectation Reduces Representational Drift in the Hippocampus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mark H PlittDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Konstantin KaganovskyDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Ella SayDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Marielena SosaDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Thomas C SüdhofDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Lisa M GiocomoDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address: giocomo@stanford.edu.

Funding

Resource Core 3 - Teaching/Training/Dissemination Core (TTDC)U19NS118284 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GIOCOMO, LISA · 2021 to 2025
$18.1M
The Dynamics of Neural Representations for Distinct Spatial Contexts and Memory EpisodesR01MH126904 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Lisa Giocomo · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Precise neuromodulation for encoding reward in the hippocampusR01MH130452 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Lisa Giocomo · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126904NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130452NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS118284
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid delivery of glutamate receptors to the postsynaptic membrane via vesicle fusion is a central component of synaptic plasticity. However, it is unknown how this process supports specific neural computations during behavior. To bridge this gap, we combined hippocampal CA1 deletion of the t-SNARE protein Syntaxin3 (Stx3), a component of the postsynaptic membrane fusion machinery, with population in vivo calcium imaging. This approach revealed that Stx3 is necessary for neural responses to novelty and for forming stable representations of rewarded locations. By contrast, CA1 Stx3 is dispensable for maintaining aspects of the neural code that exist presynaptic to CA1, such as representations of context and space. Thus, altering the Stx3-dependent postsynaptic membrane fusion machinery identified computations that specifically require synaptic restructuring via membrane trafficking in CA1 and distinguished them from neural representations that could be inherited from upstream brain regions or learned through other mechanisms.

Indexed as

CA1 Region, HippocampalMembrane FusionNeuronal PlasticityQa-SNARE ProteinsSynaptic MembranesAnimalsMiceQa-SNARE ProteinsCA1hippocampusmembrane traffickingnavigationplasticitypopulation imagingspatial coding

Identifiers

PMID41932328
PMCPMC13488814

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