Regulated Intron Removal Integrates Motivational State and Experience

Myriad experiences produce transient memory, yet, contingent on the internal state of the organism and the saliency of the experience, only some memories persist over time. How experience and internal state influence the duration of memory at the molecular level remains unknown. A self-assembled aggregated state of Drosophila Orb2A protein is required specifically for long-lasting memory. We report that in the adult fly brain the mRNA encoding Orb2A protein exists in an unspliced non-protein-coding form. The convergence of experience and internal drive transiently increases the spliced protein-coding Orb2A mRNA. A screen identified pasilla, the fly ortholog of mammalian Nova-1/2, as a mediator of Orb2A mRNA processing. A single-nucleotide substitution in the intronic region that reduces Pasilla binding and intron removal selectively impairs long-term memory. We posit that pasilla-mediated processing of unspliced Orb2A mRNA integrates experience and internal state to control Orb2A protein abundance and long-term memory formation..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:169

Enthalten in:

Cell - 169(2017), 5, Seite 836

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gill, Jason [VerfasserIn]
Park, Younshim [Sonstige Person]
Mcginnis, J.P [Sonstige Person]
Perez-Sanchez, Consuelo [Sonstige Person]
Blanchette, Marco [Sonstige Person]
Si, Kausik [Sonstige Person]

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doi:

10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.006

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OLC199423122X