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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 2001, 21(7):2404-2412

Long-Term Memory Is Facilitated by cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein Overexpression in the Amygdala

Sheena A. Josselyn1, Chanjun Shi1, William A. Carlezon Jr1, 2, Rachael L. Neve2, Eric J. Nestler1, and Michael Davis1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut 06508, and 2 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178


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At least two temporally and mechanistically distinct forms of memory are conserved across many species: short-term memory that persists minutes to hours after training and long-term memory (LTM) that persists days or longer. In general, repeated training trials presented with intervening rest intervals (spaced training) is more effective than massed training (the same number of training trials presented with no or short intervening rest intervals) in producing LTM. LTM requires de novo protein synthesis, and cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) may be one of the transcription factors regulating the synthesis of new proteins necessary for the formation of LTM. Here we show that rats given massed fear conditioning training show no or weak LTM, as measured by fear-potentiated startle, compared with rats given the same amount of training but presented in a spaced manner. Increasing CREB levels specifically in the basolateral amygdala via viral vector-mediated gene transfer significantly increases LTM after massed fear training. The enhancing effect of CREB overexpression on LTM formation is shown to be specific in terms of biochemistry, anatomy, time course, and the training procedure used. These results suggest that CREB activity in the amygdala serves as a molecular switch for the formation of LTM in fear conditioning.

Key words: amygdala; CREB; memory; fear conditioning; viral vector; startle


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In species ranging from Aplysia (Carew et al., 1972), Drosophila (Tully et al., 1994), Chasmagnathus crab (Freudenthal et al., 1998), mouse (Kogan et al., 1996), rat (Fanselow and Tighe, 1988; Barela, 1999), to human (Ebbinghaus, 1885), spaced training (training trials presented with intervening rest intervals) is more effective than massed training (the same number of training trials presented with no or short intervening rest intervals) in producing long-term memory (LTM) for a variety of tasks. Either massed or spaced training, however, produce robust short-term memory (STM). Furthermore, LTM, unlike STM, requires de novo protein synthesis (Davis and Squire, 1984).

Several lines of evidence suggest that cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) is one of the transcription factors regulating the synthesis of proteins necessary for the formation of LTM (Dash et al., 1990; Kaang et al., 1993; Bourtchouladze et al., 1994; Yin et al., 1994, 1995; Guzowski and McGaugh, 1997; Lamprecht et al., 1997; Impey et al., 1998a). CREB is part of a family of transcription factors, members of which activate or repress transcription (Foulkes et al., 1991; Molina et al., 1993; Sassone-Corsi, 1995; De Cesare et al., 1999). The effectiveness of massed and spaced training schedules to produce maximal LTM may depend on the ratio of CREB isoforms such that spaced training may be required to produce maximal LTM when the levels of CREB activator isoforms are relatively low, whereas massed training alone may be sufficient to produce LTM when the levels of activator isoforms are higher (Yin et al., 1995). For example, overexpression of a CREB activator isoform in flies produces maximal LTM after massed training alone (Yin et al., 1995). Conversely, the LTM deficit observed in mutant mice lacking two major activator isoforms of CREB is "rescued" by training with spaced trials (Kogan et al., 1996).

In the fear-potentiated startle paradigm, memory (both STM and LTM) is inferred from an increase in the amplitude of the startle response of rats when the startle reflex is elicited in the presence of a light [the conditioned stimulus (CS)] that has been previously paired with footshock [the unconditioned stimulus (US)]. The neural circuitry underlying the acquisition of memory using conditioned fear paradigms is well characterized (Davis, 1992; Maren and Fanselow, 1996; LeDoux, 2000), thus allowing for the examination of the effects of manipulating CREB levels specifically in an area of the brain directly implicated in the formation of memory rather than in a more global, nonregion-specific manner as in previous studies. The basolateral complex of the amygdala, specifically the lateral and basolateral nuclei, is necessary for the acquisition of fear conditioning (LeDoux et al., 1990; Miserendino et al., 1990; Romanski et al., 1993; Campeau and Davis, 1995). Therefore, we examined the effects of increasing CREB levels specifically in the basolateral amygdala of rats using herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV) vector-mediated gene transfer on memory produced by different schedules for fear training (massed or spaced). This technique of increasing CREB levels (Carlezon et al., 1998) provides both neural and temporal specificity that is currently not available in studies using mutant animals.


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Animals

Male albino Sprague Dawley rats (Charles River, Kingston, NY) weighing between 300 and 400 gm were used. Rats were housed in groups of three to four in polyethylene cages and maintained in a 12 hr light/dark cycle (lights on at 7:00 A.M.) with ad libitum access to food and water.

Apparatus

Rats were trained and tested in five identical Plexiglas and wire-mesh stabilimeters (8 × 15 × 15 cm) suspended between compression springs within a steel frame (Cassella and Davis, 1986). The floor of each stabilimeter consisted of four stainless steel bars (6.0 mm in diameter) spaced 18 mm apart through which shock could be delivered. Stabilimeter movement resulted in displacement of an accelerometer located at the bottom of each stabilimeter, in which the resultant voltage was proportional to the velocity of cage displacement. The analog output of the accelerometer was amplified and digitized on a scale of 0-4096 units by a MacADIOS II board (GW Instruments, Somerville, MA) interfaced with an Apple Computers (Cupertino, CA) Macintosh II microcomputer. The stabilimeters were housed in a ventilated, dark, sound-attenuating chamber (2.5 × 2.5 × 2 m; Industrial Acoustics Co., Bronx, NY).

Background white noise (0-20 kHz) of 55 dB sound pressure level was provided by a white noise generator (Layfayette 15800) delivered through a speaker (range of 0.02-20 kHz; Jamocar 70) located 70 cm in front of each stabilimeter. The startle-eliciting stimulus was a 105 dB, 50 msec burst of white noise (rise-decay time of 5 msec), provided by a noise generator (0-20 kHz; Lafayette 15800) and delivered through high-frequency speakers (range of 5-40 kHz; Radio Shack Super Tweeter) located 10 cm behind each stabilimeter. Sound level measurements were made with a Brüel & Kjær (Marlborough, MA) 4133 condenser microphone fitted to a Brüel & Kjær 2235 sound level meter (A scale, random input). A 3.7 sec light CS was generated by an 8 W fluorescent light bulb (100 µsec rise time; 800 foot lamberts intensity). Footshocks were produced by five shock generators (SGS-004; LeHigh Valley, Beltsville, MD) located outside the sound attenuating chamber. Shock intensity was measured with a 1 kOmega resistor across a differential channel of an oscilloscope in series with a 100 kOmega resistor connected between adjacent floor bars within each stabilimeter. Current was defined as the root mean square voltage across the 1 kOmega resistor where mA = 0.707 × 0.5 × peak-to-peak voltage. According to this method, the shock intensity was 0.6 or 0.3 mA with a duration of 500 msec. The presentation and sequencing of all stimuli were controlled by a Macintosh II microcomputer. Startle amplitude was defined as the peak acceleration voltage that occurred during the first 200 msec after the onset of the startle stimulus.

General behavioral procedures

Habituation. To habituate animals to the behavioral apparatus, rats were placed in the stabilimeters and 5 min later presented with 10 startle stimuli at each of 95, 100, and 105 dB intensities on each of 2 d before surgery and training. The three intensities of startle stimuli were presented in an irregular order with an interstimulus interval of 30 sec. This habituation procedure minimizes the level of subsequent conditioning to the context alone.

Training. For all experiments, training took place on a single day. Rats were placed in the stabilimeter and 5 min later presented with four light-shock pairings in which a 3.7 sec light (CS) coterminated with a 0.5 sec shock (US, 0.6 mA unless otherwise specified). Five min after the final light-shock pairing, animals were returned to their home cages. In the first experiment, the intertrial interval (ITI) was varied. The ITI was defined as the time between the offset of the light on trial n and the onset of the light on trial n + 1. In subsequent experiments, massed training was defined as having an ITI of 10 sec, whereas spaced training was defined as having an ITI of 8 min.

To determine the effects of viral infusions on footshock sensitivity (the unconditional response), the mean shock reactivity was assessed by the displacement of the cage in the 200 msec period after each of the four footshocks on the training day.

LTM testing. Forty-eight hours after training, rats were placed in the stabilimeters and, 5 min later, received 30 startle-eliciting stimuli alone (with an interstimulus interval of 30 sec) to establish stable startle responding followed by an additional 60 startle-eliciting stimuli. Half of these startle-eliciting stimuli occurred 3.2 sec after the onset of the 3.7 sec light ("light-noise trial") and half occurred in darkness ("noise-alone trial"). The order of the two trial types (light-noise and noise-alone) was irregular with the restriction that the same trial type could occur no more than twice in a row. Fear-potentiated startle difference scores, used as an index of LTM, were calculated for each animal by subtracting the mean startle amplitudes on the 30 noise-alone trials from the mean startle amplitudes on the 30 light-noise trials.

Virus preparation. CREB and a mutant form of CREB (mCREB) cDNAs (kindly provided by M. E. Greenberg, Harvard University, Boston, MA) and LacZ were inserted into the HSV amplicon HSV-PrpUC and packaged using the helper 5 dl1.2 (Lim et al., 1996; Carlezon et al., 1997, 1998; Neve et al., 1997; Neve and Lim, 1999). Virus was purified on a sucrose gradient, pelleted, and resuspended in 10% sucrose. The average titer of the recombinant virus stocks was 4.0 × 107 infectious U/ml and was similar for HSV-CREB and HSV-mCREB. Transgene expression was regulated by the constitutive promoter for the HSV immediate-early gene IE 4/5.

Surgery. Surgery was conducted 24-48 hr after the second habituation session. Rats were pretreated with atropine sulfate (0.4 mg/kg, i.p.), anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital (60 mg/kg, i.p.), and placed in a David Kopf Instruments (Tujunga, CA) stereotaxic instrument. The skin was retracted, and holes were drilled in the skull bilaterally above the target region. Infusion coordinates were based on the rat atlas of Paxinos and Watson (1986). The coordinates for the lateral nucleus of the amygdala were as follows: anteroposterior (AP), -2.8 mm; mediolateral (ML), ±5.2 mm; and dorsoventral (DV), -8.5 below the surface of the skull. The coordinates for the caudate nucleus were as follows: AP, +0.2 mm; ML, ±3.0 mm; and DV, -6.0 mm. Bilateral microinjections (2 µl) of PBS or HSV vectors were delivered over 10 min through 30 gauge injection cannulas (Plastics One, Roanoke, VA) attached by polyethylene tubing to Hamilton microsyringes (10 µl) mounted in an infusion pump (model 975; Harvard Instruments, South Natick, MA). Infusion cannulas were left in place an additional 10 min to ensure diffusion. Unless otherwise stated, rats were trained 3 d after surgery because this time point has been shown to be have the highest transgene expression using this HSV system (Lim et al., 1996; Carlezon et al., 1997, 1998; Neve et al., 1997). An additional eight rats were used for immunocytochemistry and similarly injected with HSV vectors, but behavior was not performed on these rats.

Histology and immunocytochemistry. The placement of the infusions was determined with cresyl violet staining for all rats used for behavior. After the completion of the LTM or STM test, rats were overdosed with chloral hydrate and perfused with saline, followed by 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS. Brains were removed and stored in a solution of 30% sucrose-PBS for at least 2 d. Sections (60 µm) were cut through the infusion site on a freezing microtome and mounted on gelatin-coated slides. After drying, the slides were stained with cresyl violet, and the site of injection was evaluated under a microscope. Inclusion of rats in statistical analyses was based strictly on site of injection, without knowledge of the behavioral data of individual rats. Only those rats with bilateral placements in the basolateral complex of the amygdala or caudate nucleus were included in the amygdala and caudate groups, respectively.

Brains undergoing immunocytochemistry were treated similarly to above, and rats were perfused 3 d after surgery (at the time when training occurred). Immunocytochemistry was performed on free-floating coronal sections (40 µm). Brains infused with HSV-LacZ were reacted for beta -galactosidase and counterstained with neutral red (according to Lim et al., 1996; Carlezon et al., 1997, 1998; Neve et al., 1997). Briefly, sections were placed overnight in a solution comprised of potassium ferrocyanide, potassium ferricyanide, MgCl2, PBS, and 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-beta -D-galactopyranosidase (0.2 mg/ml; Boehringer Mannheim, Indianapolis, IN). Analysis of CREB expression in brain infused with HSV-CREB was conducted according to Carlezon et al. (1998). Briefly, sections were incubated with H2O2 and Triton X-100, blocked with bovine serum albumin, normal goat serum, and Triton X-100, and incubated with CREB antibody (1:1000; Upstate Biotechnology, Lake Placid, NY) overnight. Sections were then incubated with biotinylated goat anti-rabbit IgG secondary antiserum (1:200; Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) and avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (ABC) reagent (Vector Laboratories). Immunoreactivity was visualized using a diaminobenzidine reaction.

Specific behavioral procedures

Effect of ITI in training on subsequent LTM. We first assessed the effect of varying the ITI between four light-shock pairings on the level of LTM as measured by fear-potentiated startle. Groups of rats received four light-shock pairings with an ITI of 3 sec, 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 2 min, or 8 min. Fear-potentiated startle (LTM) was assessed 48 hr later.

Effect of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on LTM formation after massed training. We next examined the effects of increasing CREB levels specifically in the basolateral complex of the amygdala on LTM produced by massed training (10 sec ITI), a protocol that normally induces weak or no LTM. To increase CREB levels, we microinjected HSV vectors encoding the CREB protein (HSV-CREB) before training. As a control, different groups of rats were similarly injected with PBS, HSV encoding a control protein (HSV-LacZ encoding beta -galactosidase), and HSV encoding an inactive mutant form of CREB protein (HSV-mCREB). Phosphorylation of CREB at Ser133 activates the protein and leads to the transcription of genes containing CRE sequences in the upstream promoter region, whereas replacing this Ser with a nonphosphorylatable Ala residue abolishes this transcriptional activity (Gonzalez and Montminy, 1989; Ginty et al., 1992; Armstrong and Montminy, 1993). Thus, mCREB binds to the CRE site but is unable to regulate transcription, thereby creating an inactive CREB control.

To determine whether the basolateral complex of the amygdala is a key site, additional groups of rats received HSV-CREB injections into the caudate nucleus, an area that is not thought to be critically involved in LTM of fear-potentiated startle.

Effects of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on LTM formation after explicitly unpaired training. To evaluate whether the effects of overexpression of CREB were specific to learning in that they required paired presentations of the light-shock during training, groups of rats received explicitly unpaired massed training in which presentation of the CS did not predict the US. Massed presentations of the light (four, ITI of 10 sec) were followed 4 min later by massed presentations of the shock (four, ITI of 10 sec). Three different treatment groups were used: (1) unoperated control, (2) infusion of PBS into the amygdala, or (3) infusion of HSV-CREB into the amygdala. Fear-potentiated startle testing occurred 48 hr after training.

Effect of CREB overexpression before training or testing. Previous studies using similar HSV vectors with various transgenes driven by the HSV IE 4/5 promoter show that expression of the transgene is maximal 2-4 d after infusion and diminishes thereafter (Lim et al., 1996; Carlezon et al., 1997, 1998; Neve et al., 1997). We took advantage of this temporal dynamic to assess the effect of CREB overexpression on formation versus expression of LTM. We compared the LTM produced by massed training in rats infused with HSV-CREB into the basolateral complex of the amygdala at different time points before training: (1) 3 d before training such that training occurred at a time of maximal CREB overexpression or (2) 14 d before training such that training occurred at a time of minimal CREB overexpression. Two groups of rats were given massed fear training (ITI of 10 sec) 3 d after HSV-CREB or HSV-LacZ infusion into the basolateral amygdala ("3d HSV-CREB," and "3d HSV-LacZ," respectively), tested for LTM 48 hr later (as in the previous experiments) and given a second LTM test (the same as the first LTM test) 14 d after HSV infusion. A third group ("14d HSV-CREB") received massed training 14 d after infusion of HSV-CREB and tested for LTM 48 hr after training. Using this protocol, the 3 d groups (3d HSV-CREB and 3d HSV-LacZ) were trained when transgene expression was high and (re)tested for LTM when transgene expression was low, whereas the 14 d group (14d HSV-CREB) was trained and tested when transgene expression was low. In addition, six rats were infused with HSV-LacZ and perfused either 3 or 14 d after surgery for immunocytochemical examination.

Effect of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on LTM after spaced training. To assess the effect of CREB overexpression on LTM produced by spaced training, we again separated the four light-shock pairings by an ITI of 8 min. Groups of rats were trained with either a 0.6 mA shock or a 0.3 mA shock 3 d after intra-amygdala infusion of PBS, HSV-CREB, or nothing (unoperated control animals) and tested for fear-potentiated startle 48 hr after training.

Effects of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on STM after massed training. Previous studies indicate that STM, unlike LTM, is not dependent on CREB-mediated transcription (Bourtchouladze et al., 1994; Yin et al., 1994; Kogan et al., 1996; Lamprecht et al., 1997), although it has been reported that CREB1c, a cytoplasmic protein, modulates both short- and long-term facilitation in Aplysia (Bartsch et al., 1998). Therefore, we examined the effects of CREB overexpression in the basolateral complex of the amygdala on STM produced by massed fear conditioning. STM testing was conducted similarly to LTM testing except that it occurred 15 or 40 min after massed (paired or unpaired) training. In groups in which the STM test was conducted 15 min after training, the animals were not removed from the stabilimeters, whereas in groups in which the STM test was conducted 40 min after training, animals were returned to the home cage for this delay. In the STM test, twenty noise-alone stimuli were followed by 15 light-noise stimuli and 15 noise-alone stimuli presented in an irregular order. Fear-potentiated startle difference scores were calculated by subtracting the mean noise-alone score from mean light-noise score and used as an index of STM.

Groups of rats (unoperated control rats that received unpaired massed presentation of the light and shock or rats receiving intra-amygdala infusions of PBS or HSV-CREB before paired massed training) were tested for STM 15 min after training. Additional groups of rats (rats receiving intra-amygdala infusions of PBS, HSV-LacZ, or HSV-CREB) were tested for STM 40 min after massed training. In addition, a separate group of rats (rats receiving intra-amygdala infusions of PBS or HSV-CREB) were given a STM test 40 min after massed training with a lower intensity of footshock (0.3 mA).


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Effect of ITI in training on subsequent LTM

Figure 1 shows the LTM (fear-potentiated startle difference scores) for rats that received four light-shock pairings separated by different ITIs. Increasing ITIs produced greater LTM as assessed 48 hr after training (Fig. 1); robust LTM was observed after spaced training (8 min ITI), whereas weak or no LTM was observed after massed training (3, 5, and 10 sec ITIs). An ANOVA with between-group factor ITI (3 sec, 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 2 min, and 8 min) was performed on the fear-potentiated startle difference scores from each group (n = 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, and 15, respectively). The ANOVA showed a significant effect of ITI (F(5,49) = 3.04; p < 0.05), and post hoc Newman-Keuls test indicated that the LTM produced by the 8 min ITI was significantly greater than that produced by ITIs of 3, 5, 10, or 15 sec. Therefore, consistent with previous results using a variety of species and different learning paradigms (Ebbinghaus, 1885; Carew et al., 1972; Fanselow and Tighe, 1988; Tully et al., 1994; Freudenthal et al., 1998), massed training produces little or no LTM as measured by fear-potentiated startle, whereas spaced training produces robust LTM. Because the level of LTM produced by an ITI of 8 min was significantly greater than that produced by an ITI of 10 sec, these ITIs were chosen as examples of spaced and massed training, respectively, in additional studies.



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  		Figure 1.   Effect of ITI on LTM as assessed by fear-potentiated startle. Fear-potentiated startle (FPS) difference scores were calculated by subtracting the mean startle amplitudes obtained on noise-alone trials from the mean startle amplitudes obtained on light-noise trials and used as an index of LTM. The mean ± SEM level of LTM is shown after training, which consisted of four light-shock pairings with ITIs of 3 sec, 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 2 min, and 8 min. Massed training (10 sec and less) produced very weak LTM (~50 units), whereas spaced training (8 min) produced robust LTM.

Effect of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on the LTM formation after massed training

Infusion of HSV vectors produces high expression of the transgene

Figure 2 shows the immunocytochemical examination of representative brains performed 3 d after infusion of HSV vectors (when fear training normally occurred). HSV-LacZ (Fig. 2A) and HSV-CREB (Fig. 2D) infusion produced strong localized transgene expression throughout the basolateral complex of the amygdala (specifically, the lateral nucleus). Figure 2A shows an area of beta -galactosidase-positive cells surrounding the injection site of HSV-LacZ. The spread of positively stained cells was ~1.5 mm2 from the injection tip. Similarly, infusion of HSV-CREB produced strong CREB immunostaining throughout the lateral nucleus of the amygdala but not in the central nucleus of the amygdala (Fig. 2D, Ce). This robust increase in CREB immunostaining is evident by comparing the light level of CREB immunostaining observed after infusion of HSV-LacZ into the basolateral amygdala (Fig. 2B) with the dark CREB immunostaining produced by infusion of HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala (Fig. 2D). It is important to note that these sections were treated identically [as shown by the similar light levels of CREB background staining in the central nucleus of the amygdala (Fig. 2B,D, Ce)]. Similarly, infusion of HSV-CREB into the caudate nucleus produced strong CREB immunostaining (Fig. 2C). This finding that infusion of HSV-CREB strongly increases CREB immunostaining is in agreement with Carlezon et al. (1998). The number of neurons overexpressing CREB is likely underestimated in this preparation because the immunocytochemical conditions were adjusted so as to be minimally sensitive to the background (endogenous) levels of CREB.



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  		Figure 2.   Immunocytochemical examination of the basolateral complex of the amygdala and caudate nucleus after infusion of HSV vectors. A, Expression of LacZ 3 d after infusion of HSV-LacZ into the basolateral amygdala. Sections are counterstained with neutral red and presented at low magnification. B, Expression of CREB 3 d after control infusion of HSV-LacZ into the basolateral amygdala. C, Overexpression of CREB 3 d after infusion of HSV-CREB into the caudate nucleus. D, Overexpression of CREB 3 d after infusion of HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala. * indicates location of infusion. ic, Internal capsule; opt, optic tract; Ce, central nucleus of the amygdala; L, lateral nucleus of the amygdala; BL, basolateral nucleus of the amygdala; BM, basomedial nucleus of the amygdala; Pir, pyriform cortex; ec, external capsule; CP, caudate putamen. Scale bars, 0.2 mm.

Infusion of HSV vectors was accompanied by minimal tissue damage, similar to that produced by infusion of PBS, as assessed by cresyl violet staining. It is important to note that injection of HSV vectors produced no apparent behavioral abnormalities.

Histology and site of infusion

Histological examination of the infusion site in all animals tested for LTM showed that 17 of the rats infused with HSV-CREB had accurate bilateral infusion sites in the basolateral complex of the amygdala, most often within the lateral nucleus of the amygdala. The infusions of an additional eight rats infused with HSV-CREB were improperly placed and, therefore, designated as extra-amygdala HSV-CREB. Of the rats infused with PBS, HSV-LacZ, or HSV-mCREB, 7, 10, and 11, respectively, had accurate bilateral placements within the basolateral complex of the amygdala and were included in statistical analyses. Five rats infused with HSV-CREB directly into the caudate nucleus had accurate placements.

Overexpression of CREB in the amygdala facilitates LTM formation after massed training

Figure 3 shows the LTM scores from rats that received massed fear conditioning 3 d after infusion of PBS, HSV-CREB, or HSV-mCREB into the basolateral amygdala or HSV-CREB into the sites surrounding the amygdala or directly into the caudate nucleus. Remarkably, the weak LTM normally produced by massed training was strongly enhanced by infusion of HSV-CREB into the amygdala. An ANOVA performed on the LTM scores with between-group factor treatment (intra-amygdala injections of PBS, HSV-LacZ, HSV-CREB, and HSV-mCREB, extra-amygdala injection of HSV-CREB, and intracaudate injection of HSV-CREB) showed a significant effect of treatment (F(5,52) = 4.99; p < 0.001), and a post hoc Newman-Keuls test indicated that rats infused with HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala exhibited significantly greater LTM than rats similarly infused with PBS, HSV-LacZ, or HSV-mCREB or rats infused with HSV-CREB into extra-amygdala sites or directly into the caudate nucleus. Importantly, neither control infusions of PBS, HSV-LacZ, or HSV-mCREB into the basolateral complex of the amygdala nor extra-amygdala or caudate infusion of HSV-CREB affected the weak LTM normally observed after massed training.



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  		Figure 3.   Effect of infusion of HSV vectors into the basolateral amygdala and extra-amygdala areas on the subsequent LTM (mean ± SEM) observed 48 hr after massed fear conditioning training (10 sec ITI). HSV vectors and PBS infusions were aimed at the basolateral amygdala and a control region (the caudate nucleus). However, several infusions of HSV-CREB missed the amygdala target region and are thus designated as extra-amygdala (HSV-CREB Extra-Amygdala). Rats infused with HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala showed significantly greater LTM than rats similarly infused with PBS, HSV-LacZ, or HSV-mCREB or rats infused with HSV-CREB into brain regions surrounding the amygdala or directly into the caudate nucleus.

Figure 4A shows that the mean shock reactivity during massed fear training for animals (from above) infused with HSV vectors (PBS, HSV-LacZ, HSV-CREB, and HSV-mCREB) into the basolateral amygdala did not appear to differ. This observation was confirmed by the results of an ANOVA showing no significant effect of treatment (F(3,41) = 1.41; p > 0.05). However, as shown in Figure 3, animals infused with HSV-CREB subsequently showed increased LTM. This finding indicates that CREB overexpression did not facilitate LTM after massed training by increasing the salience of the US during training.



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  		Figure 4.   Specificity of the LTM-enhancing effects of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on LTM formation after massed training (10 sec ITI). A, Similar reactions to footshock were observed during training in rats infused with PBS, HSV-LacZ, HSV-CREB, or HSV-mCREB into the basolateral amygdala. B, Effects of HSV vectors on explicitly unpaired massed training. Explicitly unpaired conditioning fails to produce LTM in unoperated control rats. Furthermore, intrabasolateral amygdala infusion of PBS or HSV-CREB does not enhance LTM after unpaired massed training. C, Time course of the effect of HSV vectors on LTM formation after massed training. Animals that received HSV-CREB 3 d before massed training show greater LTM when retested 14 d after infusion than animals similarly treated with HSV-LacZ or animals given HSV-CREB 14 d before massed training and tested 48 hr later.

Effects of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on LTM formation after explicitly unpaired training

Figure 4B shows the LTM (fear-potentiated startle difference scores) for unoperated control rats (n = 10) and rats that were infused with PBS (n = 5) or HSV-CREB (n = 5) before unpaired massed training. As expected, unpaired massed training did not produce LTM for the light-shock association in unoperated control rats, and this was not altered by infusion of PBS or HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala (F(2,17) = 0.44; p > 0.05). This finding indicates that the increase in LTM observed in animals given massed training after HSV-CREB infusion into the basolateral amygdala (Fig. 3) critically depends on pairing the CS with the US.

Effect of CREB overexpression before training or testing

Immunocytochemistry: 3 versus 14 d after infusion

Figure 5 shows the beta -galactosidase staining from similarly treated brains 3 (Fig. 5A) and 14 (Fig. 5B) d after infusion of HSV-LacZ. In agreement with previous studies (Lim et al., 1996; Carlezon et al., 1997, 1998; Neve et al., 1997), the strong staining for the transgene observed 3 d after HSV infusion was not observed 14 d after infusion. Similar results were obtained after infusion of HSV-CREB.



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  		Figure 5.   Time course of transgene expression after infusion of HSV-LacZ. A, High expression of the LacZ 3 d after infusion of HSV-LacZ into the basolateral amygdala. Sections are counterstained with neutral red and presented at low magnification. B, Low expression of the LacZ transgene 14 d after infusion of HSV-LacZ into the basolateral amygdala.

Overexpression of CREB facilitates LTM formation rather than expression

Figure 4C shows the LTM scores for all groups infused with HSV vectors (3d HSV-CREB, n = 10; 3d HSV-LacZ, n = 3; 14d HSV-CREB, n = 4). Rats from the 3d HSV-CREB group showed greater LTM (on the second test conducted 14 d after HSV infusion) than similarly treated rats infused with HSV-LacZ (3d HSV-LacZ) or rats from the 14d HSV-CREB group. An ANOVA showed a significant effect of treatment (F(2,14) = 6.05; p < 0.05), and a post hoc test indicated that the 3d HSV-CREB group exhibited significantly greater LTM than either the 3d HSV-LacZ or 14d HSV-CREB groups. This result replicates our previous finding that overexpression of CREB in the amygdala facilitates LTM after massed training, even when retested several days later. Furthermore, these data indicate that massed training is sufficient to produce strong LTM only if training, rather than testing, is conducted when CREB level in the amygdala are high, thereby implicating LTM encoding rather than retrieval processes.

Effect of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on LTM after spaced training

Figure 6A shows the LTM observed in unoperated control rats (n = 10) or rats receiving intra-amygdala infusions of PBS (n = 17) or HSV-CREB (n = 8) after spaced fear conditioning training. Spaced training produces robust LTM in unoperated control rats, but intra-amygdala infusions of PBS or HSV-CREB did not further increase this (F(2,27) = 0.21; p > 0.05). One interpretation of the lack of effect of CREB overexpression on LTM produced by spaced training could be that increasing CREB in the amygdala facilitates the formation of LTM after relatively weak (for instance, massed) but not strong (spaced) training, or it may be that spaced training produced maximal LTM such that a possible enhancement by CREB overexpression may have been masked. To examine these alternatives, we conducted the same experiment but lowered the LTM ceiling by using a weaker intensity of shock (0.3 rather than 0.6 mA). Figure 6B shows the LTM scores produced by a separate group of rats [unoperated control rats (n = 10) or rats receiving intra-amygdala infusions of PBS (n = 16) or HSV-CREB (n = 7)] that were given a similar spaced training protocol (8 min ITI) with a weaker intensity of shock (0.3 rather than 0.6 mA). Although spaced training using the lower shock intensity produced quantitatively less LTM relative to that produced by the higher shock intensity, there was no enhancement by HSV-CREB infusion (F(2,30) = 0.90; p > 0.05). Therefore, CREB overexpression does not simply enhance the low levels of LTM produced by all forms of weak conditioning, because the enhancement of LTM seem to be specific to massed training.



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  		Figure 6.   LTM after spaced (8 min ITI) training using different intensities of footshock after infusion of HSV vectors into the basolateral amygdala. A, High-footshock intensity (0.6 mA). The high levels of LTM 48 hr after spaced training were not significantly different in control (unoperated) rats and those receiving PBS or HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala. B, Low-footshock intensity (0.3 mA). The modest levels of LTM were not significantly different in control (unoperated) rats and those receiving infusions of PBS or HSV-CREB into the basolateral amygdala. The higher footshock intensity (0.6 mA) produced significantly greater LTM that did the weaker footshock intensity (0.3 mA), but increasing CREB levels did not change this.

Effects of CREB overexpression in the amygdala on STM after massed training

Figure 7 shows the fear-potentiated startle difference scores as a measure of STM for unoperated control rats receiving unpaired massed training (in which the light did not predict the footshock; n = 5), as well as rats infused with PBS or HSV-CREB into the basolateral complex of the amygdala (n = 12 and 11, respectively) that received massed training. As expected, unoperated control rats receiving unpaired massed training showed little evidence of STM tested 15 min after training compared with rats that received paired massed training (F(1,15) = 5.09; p < 0.05). This indicates that, although massed training is not sufficient to induce strong LTM, this deficit cannot be attributed to the animals not acquiring the association, because robust STM is observed. Infusion of HSV-CREB before massed training did not significantly change the level of STM from that observed in rats infused with PBS (F(1,21) = 0.001; p > 0.05).



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  		Figure 7.   STM, as measured by fear-potentiated startle (FPS) difference scores, after massed training in animals infused with HSV vectors in the basolateral amygdala. Control rats that received unpaired massed presentation of the light and shock show less STM than rats that had received infusion of PBS and paired massed training. However, rats infused with HSV-CREB did not differ in STM levels from rats infused with PBS.

To mimic more closely the conditions of our previous LTM experiment in which animals are returned to the home cage between massed training and testing, we tested additional groups of rats 40 min after training. In this experiment, PBS (n = 5), HSV-LacZ (n = 5), or HSV-CREB (n = 5) was infused before massed training and (delayed, 40 min) STM testing. Again, infusion of HSV-CREB had no effect on the level of (delayed) STM (F(2,12) = 0.94; p > 0.05; data not shown). Repeating this experiment with a lower shock intensity (0.3 mA shock) also showed no difference between rats infused with PBS (n = 5) or HSV-CREB (n = 5) and tested for (delayed) STM (F(1,8) = 3.03; p > 0.05; data not shown). Thus, CREB overexpression in the amygdala does not facilitate STM for fear conditioning.


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This paper provides the first direct evidence that increasing CREB levels in a defined mammalian brain region enhances LTM formation. We show that overexpression of CREB in the basolateral complex of the amygdala of rats enhances the formation of LTM after a fear training protocol that normally induces STM but little or no LTM. Furthermore, we show that the effects of CREB overexpression on LTM formation are specific, in terms of biochemistry, anatomy, stimulus processing, time course, and training protocol used. First, the facilitatory effects of CREB in this task depend on phosphorylation at Ser133, because similar overexpression of mCREB, with a single point mutation at this phosphoacceptor site, does not facilitate LTM. Second, the enhancing effects of HSV-CREB on LTM formation showed anatomical specificity to the basolateral amygdala because infusions of HSV-CREB into brain regions surrounding the amygdala or into a control region (the caudate nucleus) failed to enhance LTM formation after massed training. Third, the LTM facilitation produced by overexpression of CREB cannot be attributed to nonspecific effects on US or CS processing. Fourth, the temporal specificity of the effects of CREB overexpression suggests the critical involvement of LTM encoding rather than retrieval processes. Last, overexpression of CREB does not alter STM produced by massed training or LTM produced by spaced training, indicating that overexpression of CREB enhances the formation of LTM only under specific training conditions, such as massed training.

These results show for the first time that overexpression of CREB in a specific mammalian brain region at a specific time enhances LTM. Although many manipulations directly or indirectly produce learning and/or memory deficits, very few manipulations actually increase memory or produce a gain of function (Carew, 1996). Here we show that injection of HSV-CREB into the basolateral complex of the amygdala before massed training produced a predicted facilitation of memory formation. Similarly, previous research using the same HSV-CREB virus shows that infusion of HSV-CREB, but not HSV-mCREB, into the nucleus accumbens increases transcription of a specific target gene containing CRE elements in the promoter region (dynorphin) and decreases the rewarding effects of cocaine (Carlezon et al., 1998). In addition, injection of HSV-CREB increases levels of phospho-CREB in the injected area, whereas injection of HSV-mCREB does not (E. J. Nestler, K. H. Shin, W. A. Carlezon, Jr., C. J. Shi, R. L. Neve, and R. S. Duman, unpublished observation). Previous research estimates that similar infusion with HSV vectors resulted in ~1000-2000 transgene-labeled cells 3 d after viral vector treatment (Carlezon et al., 1997, 1998, 2000). Moreover, although the present infusions of HSV-CREB may not result in observable overexpression of CREB in all neurons near the infusion site, a previous study showed that similar infusion of an HSV vector encoding pkcDelta produced overexpression of pkcDelta in a small percentage of nigrostriatal neurons, but this was sufficient to produce a robust change in apomorphine-induced rotational behavior (Song et al., 1998). Together, the previous and present data indicate that manipulating levels of a number of transgenes (including CREB) using the HSV system effectively produces robust changes in behavior under certain training conditions.

The present data are consistent with previous research examining the interaction of CREB levels and trial spacing in the formation of LTM. Overexpression of a repressor form of CREB (dCREB2-b) abolishes LTM after spaced training in transgenic flies (Yin et al., 1994), whereas overexpression of an activator form of CREB (dCREB2-a) facilitates the formation of LTM after massed training (Yin et al., 1995). Furthermore, mice with a targeted deletion of two activator isoforms of CREB (CREBalpha delta -/- mice) show a deficit in LTM after massed training in the water maze, conditioned fear, and social transmission of food preference tasks (Bourtchouladze et al., 1994; Kogan et al., 1996). However, these LTM deficits in CREBalpha delta -/- mice are reversed by spaced training trials (Kogan et al., 1996). Together, these results suggest that CREB may act as a highly conserved gain control device or information filter that governs the kinds of training parameters that will give rise to LTM (Yin et al., 1995; Silva et al., 1998).

Yin et al. (1995) have proposed a model that may account for the interaction of CREB levels and trial spacing in LTM formation. This model suggests that CREB acts as a molecular switch that activates the transcription necessary for LTM formation only when activator isoforms of CREB overcome the blocking effect of repressor isoforms of CREB. The model posits that training induces both the activator and repressor forms of CREB but that the activator forms inactivate more slowly than the repressor forms of CREB. This slower inactivation rate may account for the findings that spaced, but not massed, training produces maximal LTM. The rest intervals between spaced training trials would allow for the accumulation of activator forms of CREB, increase the ratio of the activator to repressor forms, and induce LTM. On the other hand, massed training would not induce LTM because the rapid occurrence of the next training trial would not allow for such an accumulation of activator forms and the activator forms would never outweigh the repressor forms of CREB.

Here we show that increasing CREB expression in the amygdala facilitates LTM formation only after massed training. The present finding that increasing CREB expression in the amygdala did not change the level of LTM after spaced training using either a weak or strong intensity of shock is consistent with this model. It may be that overexpression of CREB in the amygdala increases the ratio of CREB activators to repressors such that, after even a massed training session, the level of activators outweighs the level of repressors, thereby inducing the transcription necessary to produce LTM. However, the balance of activators and repressors during spaced training is normally toward an accumulation of activators such that a further skewing of this balance via CREB overexpression would not further enhance the formation of LTM.

Although CREB originally was identified as a target of the cAMP-PKA signaling pathway, more recent studies have shown that CREB may be directly or indirectly phosphorylated at Ser 133 by Ca2+/calmoldulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinases (CaMKII and/or CaMKIV) and by mitogen-activated protein-extracellular signal-regulated kinases (MAP kinases or ERKs) (Dash et al., 1991; Sheng et al., 1991; Matthews et al., 1994; Bito et al., 1996; Xing et al., 1996; Impey et al., 1998b; De Cesare et al., 1999; Roberson et al., 1999). Treatments that disrupt function at various points along these pathways upstream of CREB induce deficits in LTM similar to those produced by directly disrupting CREB itself. For instance, overexpression of a dominant negative form of PKA (Abel et al., 1997), as well systemic (Atkins et al., 1998; Selcher et al., 1999), intracerebroventricular (Bourtchouladze et al., 1998; Schafe et al., 1999), or intra-amygdala (Ding et al., 1998; Schafe and LeDoux, 2000) administration of inhibitors of PKA or MAP kinase activity impairs LTM but not STM. Together, these results suggest that CREB may act as a final central switch onto which various signaling pathways convergence to regulate the likelihood of LTM formation.


    FOOTNOTES

Received Oct. 11, 2000; revised Dec. 13, 2000; accepted Dec. 14, 2000.

This work was supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression fellowships to S.A.J., National Institute of Mental Health Grants MH-57250 and MH-47840, Research Scientist Development Award MH-0004, a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the State of Connecticut to M.D. We thank Paul W. Frankland and Alcino J. Silva for thoughtful comments on a previous version of this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to Sheena A. Josselyn, Department of Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Gonda Building Room 2554, 695 Young Drive South, University of California, Los Angeles Medical School, Los Angeles, CA 90095. E-mail: sjosselyn{at}mednet.ucla.edu.

Drs. Shi and Davis's present address: Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, 1639 Pierce Drive, Suite 4311, Atlanta, GA 30322.


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