Imprinted Rasgrf1 expression in neonatal mice affects olfactory learning and memory.
Rasgrf1 is genomically imprinted; only the paternally inherited allele is expressed in the neonatal mouse brain until weaning, at which time expression becomes biallelic. Whereas Rasgrf1 has been implicated in learning and memory via knockout studies in adult mice, the effect of its normal imprinted expression on these phenotypes has not yet been examined. Neonatal mice with experimentally manipulated patterns of imprinted Rasgrf1 expression were assessed on an associative olfactory task. Neonates lacking the normally expressed wild-type paternal allele exhibited significant impairment in olfactory associative memory. Adult animals in which neonatal imprinting had been manipulated were also behaviorally assessed; while neonatal imprinting significantly affects body weight even into adulthood, no learning and memory phenotype attributable to imprinting was observed in adults. Additional analyses of neonates showed imprinted Rasgrf1 transcript selective to olfactory bulb even in mice that were null for Rasgrf1 in the rest of the brain and showed that Rasgrf1 affects Ras and Rac activation in the brain. Taken together, these results indicate that Rasgrf1 expression from the wild-type paternal allele contributes to learning and memory in neonatal mice.
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
N M
NM
Drake
L M
LM
DeVito
T A
TA
Cleland
P D
PD
Soloway
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C513037:Rasgrf1 protein, mouse; D020666:ras-GRF1
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