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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
The late phase of long-term potentiation (LTP) and memory (LTM) requires new gene expression, but the molecular mechanisms that underlie these processes are not fully understood. Phosphorylation of eIF2alpha inhibits general translation but selectively stimulates translation of ATF4, a repressor of CREB-mediated late-LTP (L-LTP) and LTM. We used a pharmacogenetic bidirectional approach to examine the role of eIF2alpha phosphorylation in synaptic plasticity and behavioral learning. We show that in eIF2alpha(+/S51A) mice, in which eIF2alpha phosphorylation is reduced, the threshold for eliciting L-LTP in hippocampal slices is lowered, and memory is enhanced. In contrast, only early-LTP is evoked by repeated tetanic stimulation and LTM is impaired, when eIF2alpha phosphorylation is increased by injecting into the hippocampus a small molecule, Sal003, which prevents the dephosphorylation of eIF2alpha. These findings highlight the importance of a single phosphorylation site in eIF2alpha as a key regulator of L-LTP and LTM formation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0092-8674
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
129
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
195-206
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-5-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Activating Transcription Factor 4, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Auditory Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Cinnamates, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Conditioning (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Fear, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Long-Term Potentiation, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Memory, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Neuronal Plasticity, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Synapses, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Taste, pubmed-meshheading:17418795-Thiourea
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
eIF2alpha phosphorylation bidirectionally regulates the switch from short- to long-term synaptic plasticity and memory.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and McGill Cancer Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. mauro.costa-mattioli@mail.mcgill.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural