The negative cell cycle regulator, Tob (transducer of ErbB-2), is a multifunctional protein involved in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory.
Tob (transducer of ErbB2) is a negative cell cycle regulator with anti-proliferative activity in the periphery. Using a behavioral screening paradigm to look for novel gene functions in the brain, we identified Tob as a brain-expressed protein involved in learning and memory. Behavioral training of fear-conditioning triggered a transient elevation of Tob protein, which preceded the formation of long-term memory. Functional perturbation of Tob by intra-CA1 infusion of antisense oligonucleotides in rats impaired spatial learning and memory in the Morris water maze and long-term memory for contextual fear conditioning, two behavioral paradigms that require the hippocampus. Furthermore, long-term potentiation was suppressed by Tob antisense infusion into the CA1 region. Together, these results indicate that the negative cell cycle regulator Tob is a multifunctional protein involved in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory.
Jin
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Research Center of Biotechnology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Cao-Bao Road, Shanghai 200233, China.
Wang
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XM
Tu
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Y
Zhang
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XH
Gao
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Guo
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N
Xie
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Z
Zhao
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G
Jing
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N
Li
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Yu
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D002352:Carrier Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense; C490903:Tob1 protein, mouse