Co-induction of activity-dependent genes in songbirds

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1667-1678

  Velho, Tarciso A F ^a   Pinaud, Raphael ^a   Rodrigues, Paulo V ^a   Mello, Claudio V ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc; Birdsong; c fos; Plasticity; Telencephalic auditory areas; Vocal learning; Zenk

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN ZENK; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARC GENE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENOMICS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SONGBIRD; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DENSITOMETRY; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 26944468278     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04369.x     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Angel, P., Allegretto, E.A., Okino, S.T., Hattori, K., Boyle, W.J., Hunter, T. & Karin, M. (1988) Oncogene jun encodes a sequence-specific trans-activator similar to AP-1. Nature, 332, 166-171.
2. Bailey, D.J. & Wade, J. (2003) Differential expression of the immediate early genes FOS and ZENK following auditory stimulation in the juvenile male and female zebra finch. Brain Res. Mol. Brain Res., 116, 147-154.
3. Bolhuis, J.J., Zijlstra, G.G., den Boer-Visser, A.M. & Van Der Zee, E.A. (2000) Localized neuronal activation in the zebra finch brain is related to the strength of song learning. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 2282-2285.
4. Brenowitz, E.A., Margoliash, D. & Nordeen, K.W. (1997) An introduction to birdsong and the avian song system. J. Neurobiol., 33, 495-500.
5. Cardin, J.A. & Schmidt, M.F. (2003) Song system auditory responses are stable and highly tuned during sedation, rapidly modulated and unselective during wakefulness, and suppressed by arousal. J. Neurophysiol., 90, 2884-2899.
6. Catchpole, C.K. & Slater, P.J.B. (1995) Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
7. Chaudhuri, A. (1997) Neural activity mapping with inducible transcription factors. Neuroreport, 8, v-ix.
8. Cheng, H. Y. & Clayton, D.F. (2004) Activation and habituation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase phosphorylation in zebra finch auditory forebrain during song presentation. J. Neurosci., 24, 7503-7513.
9. Chew, S.J., Mello, C., Nottebohm, F., Jarvis, E. & Vicario, D.S. (1995) Decrements in auditory responses to a repeated conspecific song are long-lasting and require two periods of protein synthesis in the songbird forebrain. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 92, 3406-3410.
10. Christy, B.A., Lau, L.F. & Nathans, D. (1988) A gene activated in mouse 3T3 cells by serum growth factors encodes a protein with 'zinc finger' sequences. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 85, 7857-7861.
11. Clayton, D.F. (2000) The genomic action potential. Neurobiol. Learn. Mem., 74, 185-216.
12. Cole, A.J., Saffen, D.W., Baraban, J.M. & Worley, P.F. (1989) Rapid increase of an immediate early gene messenger RNA in hippocampal neurons by synaptic NMDA receptor activation. Nature, 340, 474-476.
13. Curran, T., Miller, A.D., Zokas, L. & Verma, I.M. (1984) Viral and cellular fos proteins: a comparative analysis. Cell, 36, 259-268.
14. Dave, A.S., Yu, A.C. & Margoliash, D. (1998) Behavioral state modulation of auditory activity in a vocal motor system. Science, 282, 2250-2254.
15. Davis, S., Bozon, B. & Laroche, S. (2003) How necessary is the activation of the immediate early gene zif268 in synaptic plasticity and learning? Behav. Brain Res., 142, 17-30.
16. Davis, S., Vanhoutte, P., Pages, C., Caboche, J. & Laroche, S. (2000) The MAPK/ERK cascade targets both Elk-1 and cAMP response element-binding protein to control long-term potentiation-dependent gene expression in the dentate gyrus in vivo. J. Neurosci., 20, 4563-4572.
17. Doupe, A.J. & Konishi, M. (1991) Song-selective auditory circuits in the vocal control system of the zebra finch. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 88, 11339-11343.
18. George, J.M. & Clayton, D.F. (1992) Differential regulation in the avian song control circuit of an mRNA predicting a highly conserved protein related to protein kinase C and the bcr oncogene. Mol. Brain Res., 12, 323-329.
19. Goelet, P., Castellucci, V.F., Schacher, S. & Kandel, E.R. (1986) The long and the short of long-term memory - a molecular framework. Nature, 322, 419-422.
20. Guzowski, J.F. (2002) Insights into immediate-early gene function in hippocampal memory consolidation using antisense oligonucleotide and fluorescent imaging approaches. Hippocampus, 12, 86-104.
21. Guzowski, J.F., Lyford, G.L., Stevenson, G.D., Houston, P.P., McGaugh, J.L., Worley, P.F. & Barnes, C.A. (2000) Inhibition of activity-dependent arc protein expression in the rat hippocampus impairs the maintenance of long-term potentiation and the consolidation of long-term memory. J. Neurosci., 20, 3993-4001.
22. Guzowski, J.F., McNaughton, B.L., Barnes, C.A. & Worley, P.F. (1999) Environment-specific expression of the immediate-early gene Arc in hippocampal neuronal ensembles. Nat. Neurosci., 2, 1120-1124.
23. Guzowski, J.F., Setlow, B., Wagner, E.K. & McGaugh, J.L. (2001) Experience-dependent gene expression in the rat hippocampus after spatial learning: a comparison of the immediate-early genes Arc, c-fos, and zif268. J. Neurosci., 21, 5089-5098.
24. Husi, H., Ward, M.A., Choudhary, J.S., Blackstock, W.P. & Grant, S.G. (2000) Proteomic analysis of NMDA receptor-adhesion protein signaling complexes. Nat. Neurosci., 3, 661-669.
25. Jarvis, E.D., Mello, C.V. & Nottebohm, F. (1995) Associative learning and stimulus novelty influence the song-induced expression of an immediate early gene in the canary forebrain. Learn. Mem., 2, 62-80.
26. Jarvis, E.D. & Nottebohm, F. (1997) Motor-driven gene expression. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 94, 4097-4102.
27. Jarvis, E.D., Scharff, C., Grossman, M.R., Ramos, J.A. & Nottebohm, F. (1998) For whom the bird sings: context-dependent gene expression. Neuron, 21, 775-788.
28. Jones, M.W., Errington, M.L., French, P.J., Fine, A., Bliss, T.V., Garel, S., Charnay, P., Bozon, B., Laroche, S. & Davis, S. (2001) A requirement for the immediate early gene Zif268 in the expression of late LTP and long-term memories. Nat. Neurosci., 4, 289-296.
29. Karten, H.J. (1967) The organization of the ascending auditory pathway in the pigeon (Columba livia). I. Diencephalic projections of the inferior colliculus (nucleus mesencephali lateralis, pars dorsalis). Brain Res., 6, 409-427.
30. Kelley, D.B. & Nottebohm, F. (1979) Projections of a telencephalic auditory nucleus-field L-in the canary. J. Comp. Neurol., 183, 455-469.
31. Kimpo, R.R. & Doupe, A.J. (1997) FOS is induced by singing in distinct neuronal populations in a motor network. Neuron, 18, 315-325.
32. Kroodsma, D.E. & Miller, E.H. (1996) Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
33. Lanahan, A. & Worley, P. (1998) Immediate-early genes and synaptic function. Neurobiol. Learn. Mem., 70, 37-43.
34. Lee, J.L., Everitt, B.J. & Thomas, K.L. (2004) Independent cellular processes for hippocampal memory consolidation and reconsolidation. Science, 304, 839-843.
35. Lewicki, M.S. (1996) Intracellular characterization of song-specific neurons in the zebra finch auditory forebrain. J. Neurosci., 16, 5855-5863.
36. Link, W., Konietzko, U., Kauselmann, G., Krug, M., Schwanke, B., Frey, U. & Kuhl, D. (1995) Somatodendritic expression of an immediate early gene is regulated by synaptic activity. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 92, 5734-5738.
37. Lyford, G.L., Yamagata, K., Kaufmann, W.E., Barnes, C.A., Sanders, L.K., Copeland, N.G., Gilbert, D.J., Jenkins, N.A., Lanahan, A.A. & Worley, P.F. (1995) Arc, a growth factor and activity-regulated gene, encodes a novel cytoskeleton-associated protein that is enriched in neuronal dendrites. Neuron, 14, 433-445.
38. Margoliash, D. (1986) Preference for autogenous song by auditory neurons in a song system nucleus of the white-crowned sparrow. J. Neurosci., 6, 1643-1661.
39. Margoliash, D. & Fortune, E.S. (1992) Temporal and harmonic combination-sensitive neurons in the zebra finch's HVc. J. Neurosci., 12, 4309-4326.
40. Mello, C.V. & Clayton, D.F. (1994) Song-induced ZENK gene expression in auditory pathways of songbird brain and its relation to the song control system. J. Neurosci., 14, 6652-6666.
41. Mello, C.V. & Clayton, D.F. (1995) Differential induction of the ZENK gene in the avian forebrain and song control circuit after metrazole-induced depolarization. J. Neurobiol., 26, 145-161.
42. Mello, C.V., Jarvis, E.D., Denisenko, N. & Rivas, M. (1997) Isolation of song-regulated genes in the brain of songbirds. Meth. Mol. Biol., 85, 205-217.
43. Mello, C.V. & Ribeiro, S. (1998) ZENK protein regulation by song in the brain of songbirds. J. Comparative Neurol., 393, 426-438.
44. Mello, C.V., Vicario, D.S. & Clayton, D.F. (1992) Song presentation induces gene expression in the songbird forebrain. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 89, 6818-6822.
45. Milbrandt, J. (1987) A nerve growth factor-induced gene encodes a possible transcriptional regulatory factor. Science, 238, 797-799.
46. Montag-Sallaz, M. & Montag, D. (2003) Learning-induced arg 3.1/arc mRNA expression in the mouse brain. Learn. Mem., 10, 99-107.
47. Morgan, J.I., Cohen, D.R., Hempstead, J.L. & Curran, T. (1987) Mapping patterns of c-fos expression in the central nervous system after seizure. Science, 237, 192-197.
48. Muller, C.M. & Leppelsack, H.J. (1985) Feature extraction and tonotopic organization in the avian auditory forebrain. Exp. Brain Res., 59, 587-599.
49. Nastiuk, K.L., Mello, C.V., George, J.M. & Clayton, D.F. (1994) Immediate-early gene responses in the avian song control system: cloning and expression analysis of the canary c-jun cDNA. Brain Res. Mol. Brain Res., 27, 299-309.
50. Nedivi, E., Hevroni, D., Naot, D., Israeli, D. & Citri, Y. (1993) Numerous candidate plasticity-related genes revealed by differential cDNA cloning. Nature, 363, 718-722.
51. Petersohn, D., Schoch, S., Brinkmann, D.R. & Thiel, G. (1995) The human synapsin II gene promoter. Possible role for the transcription factor zif268/egr-1, polyoma enhancer activator 3, and AP2. J. Biol. Chem., 270, 24361-24369.
52. Pospelov, V.A., Pospelova, T.V. & Julien, J.P. (1994) AP-1 and Krox-24 transcription factors activate the neurofilament light gene promoter in P19 embryonal carcinoma cells. Cell Growth Differ., 5, 187-196.
53. Reiner, A., Perkel, D.J., Bruce, L.L., Butler, A.B., Csillag, A., Kuenzel, W., Medina, L., Paxinos, G., Shimizu, T., Striedter, G., Wild, M., Ball, G.F., Durand, S., Gunturkun, O., Lee, D.W., Mello, C.V., Powers, A., White, S.A., Hough, G., Kubikova, L., Smulders, T.V., Wada, K., Dugas-Ford, J., Husband, S. & Yamamoto, K., Yu, J., Siang, C. & Jarvis, E.D. (2004) Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei. J. Comp. Neurol., 473, 377-414.
54. Ribeiro, S., Cecchi, G.A., Magnasco, M.O. & Mello, C.V. (1998) Toward a song code: evidence for a syllabic representation in the canary brain. Neuron, 21, 359-371.
55. Sambucetti, L.C. & Curran, T. (1986) The Fos protein complex is associated with DNA in isolated nuclei and binds to DNA cellulose. Science, 234, 1417-1419.
56. Schmidt, M.F. & Konishi, M. (1998) Gating of auditory responses in the vocal control system of awake songbirds. Nat. Neurosci., 1, 513-518.
57. Sen, K., Theunissen, F.E. & Doupe, A.J. (2001) Feature analysis of natural sounds in the songbird auditory forebrain. J. Neurophysiol., 86, 1445-1458.
58. Shaywitz, A.J. & Greenberg, M.E. (1999) CREB: a stimulus-induced transcription factor activated by a diverse array of extracellular signals. Annu. Rev. Biochem., 68, 821-861.
59. Sheng, M. & Greenberg, M.E. (1990) The regulation and function of c-fos and other immediate early genes in the nervous system. Neuron, 4, 477-485.
60. Sockman, K.W., Gentner, T.Q. & Ball, G.F. (2002) Recent experience modulates forebrain gene-expression in response to mate-choice cues in European starlings. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 269, 2479-2485.
61. Sockman, K.W., Gentner, T.Q. & Ball, G.F. (2004) Complementary neural systems for the experience-dependent integration of mate-choice cues in European starlings. J. Neurobiol., 62, 72-81.
62. Steward, O., Wallace, C.S., Lyford, G.L. & Worley, P.P. (1998) Synaptic activation causes the mRNA for the IEG Arc to localize selectively near activated postsynaptic sites on dendrites. Neuron, 21, 741-751.
63. Steward, O. & Worley, P.F. (2001a) A cellular mechanism for targeting newly synthesized mRNAs to synaptic sites on dendrites. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 98, 7062-7068.
64. Steward, O. & Worley, P.F. (2001b) Selective targeting of newly synthesized Arc mRNA to active synapses requires NMDA receptor activation. Neuron, 30, 227-240.
65. Steward, O. & Worley, P. (2002) Local synthesis of proteins at synaptic sites on dendrites: role in synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation? Neurobiol. Learn. Mem., 78, 508-527.
66. Stripling, R., Volman, S.F. & Clayton, D.F. (1997) Response modulation in the zebra finch neostriatum: relationship to nuclear gene regulation. J. Neurosci., 17, 3883-3893.
67. Theunissen, F.E., Sen, K. & Doupe, A.J. (2000) Spectral-temporal receptive fields of nonlinear auditory neurons obtained using natural sounds. J. Neurosci., 20, 2315-2331.
68. Thiel, G., Schoch, S. & Petersohn, D. (1994) Regulation of synapsin I gene expression by the zinc finger transcription factor zif268/egr-1. J. Biol. Chem., 269, 15294-15301.
69. Vates, G.E., Broome, B.M., Mello, C.V. & Nottebohm, F. (1996) Auditory pathways of caudal telencephalon and their relation to the song system of adult male zebra finches. J. Comp. Neurol., 366, 613-642.
70. Vazdarjanova, A., McNaughton, B.L., Barnes, C.A., Worley, P.F. & Guzowski, J.F. (2002) Experience-dependent coincident expression of the effector immediate-early genes arc and Homer 1a in hippocampal and neocortical neuronal networks. J. Neurosci., 22, 10067-10071.
71. Vicario, D.S. & Yohay, K.H. (1993) Song-selective auditory input to a forebrain vocal control nucleus in the zebra finch. J. Neurobiol., 24, 488-505.
72. 2+ and cAMP requires protein kinase A and mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular regulated kinase activation. J. Neurosci., 21, 5484-5493.
73. Worley, P.F., Bhat, R.V., Baraban, J.M., Erickson, C.A., McNaughton, B.L. & Barnes, C.A. (1993) Thresholds for synaptic activation of transcription factors in hippocampus: correlation with long-term enhancement. J. Neurosci., 13, 4776-4786.
74. Worley, P.F., Christy, B.A., Nakabeppu, Y., Bhat, R.V., Cole, A.J. & Baraban, J.M. (1991) Constitutive expression of zif268 in neocortex is regulated by synaptic activity. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 88, 5106-5110.
75. Zeigler, H.P. & Marier, P. (2004) Behavioral Neurology of Birdsong. The New York Academy of Sciences, New York.