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Mapping the spatial transcriptomic signature of the hippocampus during memory consolidation
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Mapping the spatial transcriptomic signature of the hippocampus during memory consolidation

Yann Vanrobaeys, Utsav Mukherjee, Lucy Langmack, Stacy E. Beyer, Ethan Bahl, Li-Chun Lin, Jacob J. Michaelson, Ted Abel and Snehajyoti Chatterjee
Nature communications, Vol.14(1), 6100
09/29/2023
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41715-7
PMCID: PMC10541893
PMID: 37773230
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Abstract

Memory consolidation involves discrete patterns of transcriptional events in the hippocampus. Despite the emergence of single-cell transcriptomic profiling techniques, mapping the transcriptomic signature across subregions of the hippocampus has remained challenging. Here, we utilized unbiased spatial sequencing to delineate transcriptome-wide gene expression changes across subregions of the dorsal hippocampus of male mice following learning. We find that each subregion of the hippocampus exhibits distinct yet overlapping transcriptomic signatures. The CA1 region exhibited increased expression of genes related to transcriptional regulation, while the DG showed upregulation of genes associated with protein folding. Importantly, our approach enabled us to define the transcriptomic signature of learning within two less-defined hippocampal subregions, CA1 stratum radiatum, and oriens. We demonstrated that CA1 subregion-specific expression of a transcription factor subfamily has a critical functional role in the consolidation of long-term memory. This work demonstrates the power of spatial molecular approaches to reveal simultaneous transcriptional events across the hippocampus during memory consolidation. Transcriptional events are critical for hippocampus-dependent long-term memory storage. Here, the authors utilize spatial transcriptomics to elucidate localized gene expression patterns across hippocampal subregions during memory consolidation.

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