Cavallaro S, Meiri N, Yi C L, Musco S, Ma W, Goldberg J, Alkon D L
Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Sep 2;94(18):9669-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.18.9669.
Although long-term memory is thought to require a cellular program of gene expression and increased protein synthesis, the identity of proteins critical for associative memory is largely unknown. We used RNA fingerprinting to identify candidate memory-related genes (MRGs), which were up-regulated in the hippocampus of water maze-trained rats, a brain area that is critically involved in spatial learning. Two of the original 10 candidate genes implicated by RNA fingerprinting, the rat homolog of the ryanodine receptor type-2 and glutamate dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.1.3), were further investigated by Northern blot analysis, reverse transcription-PCR, and in situ hybridization and confirmed as MRGs with distinct temporal and regional expression. Successive RNA screening as illustrated here may help to reveal a spectrum of MRGs as they appear in distinct domains of memory storage.
尽管长期记忆被认为需要一个细胞程序来进行基因表达和增加蛋白质合成,但对于联想记忆至关重要的蛋白质的具体身份在很大程度上仍不清楚。我们使用RNA指纹技术来识别候选记忆相关基因(MRGs),这些基因在水迷宫训练大鼠的海马体中上调,海马体是一个在空间学习中起关键作用的脑区。通过RNA指纹技术鉴定出的最初10个候选基因中的两个,即ryanodine受体2型的大鼠同源物和谷氨酸脱氢酶(EC 1.4.1.3),通过Northern印迹分析、逆转录PCR和原位杂交进一步研究,并被确认为具有不同时间和区域表达的MRGs。如此处所示的连续RNA筛选可能有助于揭示在记忆存储的不同领域中出现的一系列MRGs。