Cdk5 regulates accurate maturation of newborn granule cells in the adult hippocampus.
Cdk5 regulates accurate maturation of newborn granule cells in the adult hippocampus.
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10.1371/journal.pbio.0060272
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发表时间:
2008-11-11
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影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Gage FH
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作者:
Jessberger S;Aigner S;Clemenson GD Jr;Toni N;Lie DC;Karalay O;Overall R;Kempermann G;Gage FH
Newborn granule cells become functionally integrated into the synaptic circuitry of the adult dentate gyrus after a morphological and electrophysiological maturation process. The molecular mechanisms by which immature neurons and the neurites extending from them find their appropriate position and target area remain largely unknown. Here we show that single-cell–specific knockdown of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (cdk5) activity in newborn cells using a retrovirus-based strategy leads to aberrant growth of dendritic processes, which is associated with an altered migration pattern of newborn cells. Even though spine formation and maturation are reduced in cdk5-deficient cells, aberrant dendrites form ectopic synapses onto hilar neurons. These observations identify cdk5 to be critically involved in the maturation and dendrite extension of newborn neurons in the course of adult neurogenesis. The data presented here also suggest a mechanistic dissociation between accurate dendritic targeting and subsequent synapse formation. Neural stem cells divide and generate new neurons throughout life in the mammalian hippocampus. After a distinct maturation process, newborn neurons become functionally integrated into the preexisting circuitry and appear to participate in hippocampal function, which is critically involved in certain forms of learning and memory. However, the molecular mechanisms by which new neurons find their position and project to their appropriate target area remain largely unknown. We here show that cell-type–specific reduction of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (cdk5) activity in newborn neurons results in impaired neuronal migration and leads to the extension of incorrectly targeted neuronal processes. Strikingly, ectopic processes extending from newborn cells synaptically integrate, suggesting a dissociation between accurate targeting of processes extending from newborn neurons and subsequent synapse formation, which might have important implications for the restorative use of neural stem cells in neurological disease. New neurons are born throughout life in the hippocampus. Cell-type-specific, single-gene ablation in newborn neurons reveals that the kinase cdk5 regulates growth of neuronal processes, identifying a key mechanism of neuronal integration within the adult brain.
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