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  • A circuit of mossy cells controls the efficacy of memory retrieval by Gria2I inhibition of Gria2.

A circuit of mossy cells controls the efficacy of memory retrieval by Gria2I inhibition of Gria2.

Cell reports (2021-02-18)
Xinyan Li, Wenting Chen, Quntao Yu, Qingping Zhang, Tongmei Zhang, Xian Huang, Hao Li, Aodi He, Hongyan Yu, Wei Jing, Huiyun Du, Xiao Ke, Bing Zhang, Qing Tian, Rong Liu, Youming Lu
ABSTRACT

Mossy cells (MCs) are a unique group of excitatory neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region important for emotion, learning, and memory. Due to the lack of a reliable method to isolate MCs from other cell types, how MCs integrate neural information and convey it to their synaptic targets for engaging a specific function are still unknown. Here, we report that MCs control the efficacy of spatial memory retrieval by synapsing directly onto local somatostatin-expressing (SST) cells. MC-SST synaptic transmission undergoes long-term potentiation (LTP), requiring Gria2-lacking Ca2+-permeable anti-α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionic acid (AMPA) receptor (Ca2+AR). A long noncoding RNA (Gria2I) is associated with Gria2 transcriptional repressors in SST cells. Silencing Gria2I induces Gria2 transcription, blocks LTP of MCs-SST synaptic transmission, and reduces the efficacy of memory retrieval. Thus, MCs directly and functionally innervate local SST neurons, and this innervation controls the efficacy of spatial memory retrieval by Gria2I inhibition of Gria2 transcription.

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