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Transgenic calmodulin-dependent protein kinase ii activation: Dose-dependent effects on synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory

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authors

  • Bejar, R.
  • Yasuda, R.
  • Krugers, H.
  • Hood, K.
  • Mayford, Mark

publication date

  • July 2002

journal

  • Journal of Neuroscience  Journal

abstract

  • Genetic disruption of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) function alters hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory in mice. We used transgenic mice carrying a tetracycline-regulated, calcium-independent form of CaMKII (CaMKII-Asp286) to investigate the role of CaMKII activation on synaptic plasticity and behavior. Mice expressing low levels of a CaMKII-Asp286 transgene have facilitated low-frequency (5 Hz)-induced long-term potentiation (LTP), whereas mice with high levels of transgene expression have a deficit in this form of plasticity. Behavioral impairments on fear-conditioned memory and visible water maze correlate with the level of CaMKII-Asp286 expression. Mice with high levels of CaMKII-Asp286 have reversible, compensatory changes in the expression of genes associated with inhibitory neurotransmission. These results demonstrate that in the hippocampus, CaMKII activation facilitates the induction of low-frequency LTP, but at high levels of expression, compensatory mechanisms act to inhibit the induction of this form of LTP. The most severe behavioral impairments are associated with activation of this compensatory mechanism.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Aspartic Acid
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Kinetics
  • Learning
  • Long-Term Potentiation
  • Maze Learning
  • Memory
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Synaptic Transmission
  • Tetracycline
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Research

keywords

  • CaMKII
  • genetic compensation
  • long-term potentiation
  • memory
  • mice
  • tetracycline
  • transgenic
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0270-6474

PubMed ID

  • 12097524
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 5719

end page

  • 5726

volume

  • 22

issue

  • 13

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