First Author | Lipina TV | Year | 2016 |
Journal | Neuropsychopharmacology | Volume | 41 |
Issue | 3 | Pages | 802-10 |
PubMed ID | 26171716 | Mgi Jnum | J:248293 |
Mgi Id | MGI:6093273 | Doi | 10.1038/npp.2015.206 |
Citation | Lipina TV, et al. (2016) Cognitive Deficits in Calsyntenin-2-deficient Mice Associated with Reduced GABAergic Transmission. Neuropsychopharmacology 41(3):802-10 |
abstractText | Calsyntenin-2 has an evolutionarily conserved role in cognition. In a human genome-wide screen, the CLSTN2 locus was associated with verbal episodic memory, and expression of human calsyntenin-2 rescues the associative learning defect in orthologous Caenorhabditis elegans mutants. Other calsyntenins promote synapse development, calsyntenin-1 selectively of excitatory synapses and calsyntenin-3 of excitatory and inhibitory synapses. We found that targeted deletion of calsyntenin-2 in mice results in a selective reduction in functional inhibitory synapses. Reduced inhibitory transmission was associated with a selective reduction of parvalbumin interneurons in hippocampus and cortex. Clstn2(-/-) mice showed normal behavior in elevated plus maze, forced swim test, and novel object recognition assays. However, Clstn2(-/-) mice were hyperactive in the open field and showed deficits in spatial learning and memory in the Morris water maze and Barnes maze. These results confirm a function for calsyntenin-2 in cognitive performance and indicate an underlying mechanism that involves parvalbumin interneurons and aberrant inhibitory transmission. |