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Vangl2 in the Dentate Network Modulates Pattern Separation and Pattern Completion.

ABSTRACT: The organization of spatial information, including pattern completion and pattern separation processes, relies on the hippocampal circuits, yet the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying these two processes are elusive. Here, we find that loss of Vangl2, a core PCP gene, results in opposite effects on pattern completion and pattern separation processes. Mechanistically, we show that Vangl2 loss maintains young postmitotic granule cells in an immature state, providing increased cellular input for pattern separation. The genetic ablation of Vangl2 disrupts granule cell morpho-functional maturation and further prevents CaMKII and GluA1 phosphorylation, disrupting the stabilization of AMPA receptors. As a functional consequence, LTP at lateral perforant path-GC synapses is impaired, leading to defects in pattern completion behavior. In conclusion, we show that Vangl2 exerts a bimodal regulation on young and mature GCs, and its disruption leads to an imbalance in hippocampus-dependent pattern completion and separation processes.

SUBMITTER: Robert BJA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7296350 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Vangl2 in the Dentate Network Modulates Pattern Separation and Pattern Completion.

Robert Benjamin J A BJA Moreau Maïté M MM Dos Santos Carvalho Steve S Barthet Gael G Racca Claudia C Bhouri Mehdi M Quiedeville Anne A Garret Maurice M Atchama Bénédicte B Al Abed Alice Shaam AS Guette Christelle C Henderson Deborah J DJ Desmedt Aline A Mulle Christophe C Marighetto Aline A Montcouquiol Mireille M Sans Nathalie N

Cell reports 20200601 10

The organization of spatial information, including pattern completion and pattern separation processes, relies on the hippocampal circuits, yet the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying these two processes are elusive. Here, we find that loss of Vangl2, a core PCP gene, results in opposite effects on pattern completion and pattern separation processes. Mechanistically, we show that Vangl2 loss maintains young postmitotic granule cells in an immature state, providing increased cellular inp ...[more]

PMID: 32521268

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Project description:OBJECTIVE:Functions ascribed to the hippocampal sub-regions for encoding episodic memories include the separation of activity patterns propagated from the entorhinal cortex (EC) into the dentate gyrus (DG) and pattern completion in CA3 region. Since a direct assessment of these functions is lacking at the level of specific axonal inputs, our goal is to directly measure the separation and completion of distinct axonal inputs in engineered pairs of hippocampal sub-regional circuits. APPROACH:We co-cultured EC-DG, DG-CA3, CA3-CA1 or CA1-EC neurons in a two-chamber PDMS device over a micro-electrode array (MEA60), inter-connected via distinct axons that grow through the micro-tunnels between the compartments. Taking advantage of the axonal accessibility, we quantified pattern separation and completion of the evoked activity transmitted through the tunnels from source into target well. Since pattern separation can be inferred when inputs are more correlated than outputs, we first compared the correlations among axonal inputs with those of target somata outputs. We then compared, in an analog approach, the distributions of correlation distances between rate patterns of the axonal inputs inside the tunnels with those of the somata outputs evoked in the target well. Finally, in a digital approach, we measured the spatial population distances between binary patterns of the same axonal inputs and somata outputs. MAIN RESULTS:We found the strongest separation of the propagated axonal inputs when EC was axonally connected to DG, with a decline in separation to CA3 and to CA1 for both rate and digital approaches. Furthermore, the digital approach showed stronger pattern completion in CA3, then CA1 and EC. SIGNIFICANCE:To the best of our knowledge, these are the first direct measures of pattern separation and completion for axonal transmission to the somata target outputs at the rate and digital population levels in each of four stages of the EC-DG-CA3-CA1 circuit.

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Vangl2 in the Dentate Network Modulates Pattern Separation and Pattern Completion.

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Vangl2 in the Dentate Network Modulates Pattern Separation and Pattern Completion.

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