title: Distinct lineage-dependent structural and functional organization of the hippocampus.
abstract: The hippocampus, as part of the cerebral cortex, is essential for memory formation and spatial navigation. Although it has been extensively studied, especially as a model system for neurophysiology, the cellular processes involved in constructing and organizing the hippocampus remain largely unclear. Here, we show that clonally related excitatory neurons in the developing hippocampus are progressively organized into discrete horizontal, but not vertical, clusters in the stratum pyramidale, as revealed by both cell-type-specific retroviral labeling and mosaic analysis with double markers (MADM). Moreover, distinct from those in the neocortex, sister excitatory neurons in the cornu ammonis 1 region of the hippocampus rarely develop electrical or chemical synapses with each other. Instead, they preferentially receive common synaptic input from nearby fast-spiking (FS), but not non-FS, interneurons and exhibit synchronous synaptic activity. These results suggest that shared inhibitory input may specify horizontally clustered sister excitatory neurons as functional units in the hippocampus.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Hua-Tai
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: College of Software, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, China.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Shuijin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Zhizhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Oren
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kodish
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Keith N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 333 West 10(th) Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: shis@mskcc.org.
authors.forename: Song-Hai
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D007395:Interneurons; D051379:Mice; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods; D013569:Synapses