Network activity-independent coordinated gene expression program for synapse assembly

Autor: Christopher N. G. Anderson, Seth G. N. Grant, Luis M. Valor, Paul Charlesworth, Lawrence Humphreys
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104:4658-4663
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
Popis: Global biological datasets generated by genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics provide new approaches to understanding the relationship between the genome and the synapse. Combined transcriptome analysis and multielectrode recordings of neuronal network activity were used in mouse embryonic primary neuronal cultures to examine synapse formation and activity-dependent gene regulation. Evidence for a coordinated gene expression program for assembly of synapses was observed in the expression of 642 genes encoding postsynaptic and plasticity proteins. This synaptogenesis gene expression program preceded protein expression of synapse markers and onset of spiking activity. Continued expression was followed by maturation of morphology and electrical neuronal networks, which was then followed by the expression of activity-dependent genes. Thus, two distinct sequentially active gene expression programs underlie the genomic programs of synapse function.
Databáze: OpenAIRE