Publication Date:
1990-03-23
Description:
In Hermissenda crassicornis conditioned to associate light and rotation, type B photoreceptor neurons exhibit pairing-specific decreases in the potassium currents IA and IK-Ca, which account for many of the behavioral changes elicited by associative conditioning. To determine which proteins are involved in storage of this memory, high-performance liquid chromatography was used to examine proteins from Hermissenda eyes. Conditioning-specific changes in four phosphoproteins were observed 24 hours after conditioning. One of these proteins, cp20, was purified to apparent homogeneity and found to be a G protein. When injected back into Hermissenda type B cells, cp20 reduced IK and IK-Ca in a manner indistinguishable from the reduction caused by conditioning, suggesting that this protein may play a crucial role in memory acquisition or retention.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nelson, T J -- Collin, C -- Alkon, D L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Mar 23;247(4949 Pt 1):1479-83.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2108498" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
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Chromatography, Ion Exchange
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Conditioning (Psychology)/physiology
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Eye Proteins/isolation & purification/physiology
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GTP-Binding Proteins/*isolation & purification/physiology
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Learning/physiology
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Mollusca/*metabolism
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Phosphoproteins/isolation & purification/physiology
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Potassium/*metabolism
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Potassium Channels/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
