Article
The Drosophila cell adhesion molecule klingon is required for long-term memory formation and is regulated by Notch.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Jan 2009
Matsuno Motomi, Horiuchi Junjiro, Tully Tim, Saitoe Minoru
Abstract excerpt
The ruslan (rus) mutant was previously identified in a behavioral screen for mutants defective in long-lasting memory, which consists of two consolidated memory types, anesthesia-resistant memory, and protein synthesis-dependent long-term memory (LTM). We demonstrate here that rus is a new allele of klingon (klg), which encodes a homophilic cell adhesion molecule. Klg is acutely required for LTM but not...
Topics
- Anesthesia
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Eye Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Memory
- Mutation
- Receptors, Notch
- Signal Transduction
