title: Spatiotemporal alterations in primary odorant representations in olfactory marker protein knockout mice.
abstract: Olfactory marker protein (OMP) is highly and selectively expressed in primary olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) across species, but its physiological function remains unclear. Previous studies in the olfactory epithelium suggest that it accelerates the neural response to odorants and may modulate the odorant-selectivity of OSNs. Here we used a line of gene-targeted mice that express the fluorescent exocytosis indicator synaptopHluorin in place of OMP to compare spatiotemporal patterns of odorant-evoked neurotransmitter release from OSNs in adult mice that were heterozygous for OMP or OMP-null. We found that these patterns, which constitute the primary neural representation of each odorant, developed more slowly during the odorant presentation in OMP knockout mice but eventually reached the same magnitude as in heterozygous mice. In the olfactory bulb, each glomerulus receives synaptic input from a subpopulation of OSNs that all express the same odor receptor and thus typically respond to a specific subset of odorants. We observed that in OMP knockout mice, OSNs innervating a given glomerulus typically responded to a broader range of odorants than in OMP heterozygous mice and thus each odorant evoked synaptic input to a larger number of glomeruli. In an olfactory habituation task, OMP knockout mice behaved differently than wild-type mice, exhibiting a delay in their onset to investigate an odor stimulus during its first presentation and less habituation to that stimulus over repeated presentations. These results suggest that the actions of OMP in olfactory transduction carry through to the primary sensory representations of olfactory stimuli in adult mice in vivo.
authors: Psychology Department, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Section, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America.
authors: Marley D
authors: MD
authors: Kass
authors: Andrew H
authors: AH
authors: Moberly
authors: John P
authors: JP
authors: McGann
mesh_terms: D000085:Acetates / Q000494:pharmacology; D000447:Aldehydes / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D059907:Functional Neuroimaging; D008742:Methyl n-Butyl Ketone / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D057507:Mice, 129 Strain; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009812:Odorants; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000502:physiology; D051842:Olfactory Marker Protein / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics*; D055696:Olfactory Perception; D018034:Olfactory Receptor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010421:Pentanoic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission
chemical_list: D000085:Acetates; D000447:Aldehydes; D051842:Olfactory Marker Protein; C497598:Omp protein, mouse; D010421:Pentanoic Acids; C033617:2-methylvaleric acid; C480346:2-methyl-2-butenal; C006848:butyl acetate; D008742:Methyl n-Butyl Ketone
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