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Experience-dependent neural plasticity, learning, and memory in the era of epitranscriptomics.

ABSTRACT: In this short review, we highlight recent findings in the emerging field of epitranscriptomic mechanisms and discuss their potential role in neural plasticity, learning and memory. These include the influence of RNA modifications on activity-induced RNA structure states, RNA editing and RNA localization, and how qualitative state changes in RNA increase the functional diversity and information-carrying capacity of RNA molecules. We predict that RNA modifications may be just as important for synaptic plasticity and memory as quantitative changes in transcript and protein abundance, but with the added advantage of not being required to signal back to the nucleus, and therefore better suited to be coordinated with the temporal dynamics of learning.

SUBMITTER: Leighton LJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5858957 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Experience-dependent neural plasticity, learning, and memory in the era of epitranscriptomics.

Leighton L J LJ Ke K K Zajaczkowski E L EL Edmunds J J Spitale R C RC Bredy T W TW

Genes, brain, and behavior 20171020 3

In this short review, we highlight recent findings in the emerging field of epitranscriptomic mechanisms and discuss their potential role in neural plasticity, learning and memory. These include the influence of RNA modifications on activity-induced RNA structure states, RNA editing and RNA localization, and how qualitative state changes in RNA increase the functional diversity and information-carrying capacity of RNA molecules. We predict that RNA modifications may be just as important for syna ...[more]

PMID: 28926184

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