Protein kinase C: a nexus in the biochemical events that underlie associative learning.
We have proposed that protein kinase C, an enzyme critical to cell regulation of growth, secretion and differentiation, is a part of a sequence of molecular events that underlie learning and memory. Electrophysiological, biochemical and neuro-imaging methods have been employed to show that the enzyme changes its distribution as a result of memory storage within the neural networks that are necessary for the acquisition and performance of various learning tasks in several species. We propose here, a model of protein kinase C as a molecular signal for the association of synaptic input that is parsimonious with the recent data, mainly from our laboratory, concerning its function in memory formation.
Olds
J L
JL
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Alkon
D L
DL
D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism*
D011493:Protein Kinase C