Synapse-Selective Control of Cortical Maturation and Plasticity by Parvalbumin-Autonomous Action of SynCAM 1.

ABSTRACT: Cortical plasticity peaks early in life and tapers in adulthood, as exemplified in the primary visual cortex (V1), wherein brief loss of vision in one eye reduces cortical responses to inputs from that eye during the critical period but not in adulthood. The synaptic locus of cortical plasticity and the cell-autonomous synaptic factors determining critical periods remain unclear. We here demonstrate that the immunoglobulin protein Synaptic Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 (SynCAM 1/Cadm1) is regulated by visual experience and limits V1 plasticity. Loss of SynCAM 1 selectively reduces the number of thalamocortical inputs onto parvalbumin (PV⁺) interneurons, impairing the maturation of feedforward inhibition in V1. SynCAM 1 acts in PV⁺ interneurons to actively restrict cortical

SUBMITTER: Ribic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345548 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature