Memory Suppressor Genes: Inhibitory Constraints on the Storage of Long-Term Memory

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 279 Số 5349 - Trang 338-341 - 1998
Ted Abel1, Kelsey C. Martin1, Dušan Bartsch1, Eric R. Kandel1
1The authors are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, 722 West 168 Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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Synaptic plasticity, the ability of neurons to alter the strength of their synaptic connections with activity and experience, is thought to play a critical role in memory storage. Molecular studies of gene expression during long-lasting synaptic plasticity related to memory storage initially focused on the identification of positive regulators. More recent work has revealed that the establishment of long-lasting synaptic plasticity and long-term memory also requires the removal of inhibitory constraints. By analogy to tumor supressor genes, which restrain cell proliferation, we propose that these inhibitory constraints on memory storage, which restrain synapse growth, be termed memory suppressor genes.

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We thank an anonymous reviewer and C. Pittenger for their thoughtful comments. Supported by grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute NIH National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the Burroughs-Wellcome fund.