bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 3, 2024
ABSTRACT
Voltage
signals
in
neurons
are
highly
compartmentalized,
which
can
influence
their
specific
functions
within
neuronal
circuits.
Targeting
of
a
genetically
encoded
voltage
indicator
(GEVI)
to
subcellular
compartments
enhance
the
signal-to-noise
ratio
and
provide
more
precise
information
about
location
timing
synaptic
firing
across
different
regions,
reducing
spatiotemporal
signal
convolution.
To
achieve
targeting
GEVI,
ArcLight,
we
utilized
five
postsynaptic
sequences
(
Shaker
K
+
channel
C-terminus,
stargazin
rat
Neuroligin-1
anti-homer1
nanobodies
HC20
&
HC87)
direct
ArcLight
expression
excitatory
density.
Additionally,
assessed
presynaptic-targeting
tag
(rat
Neurexin-1β
C-terminus)
somatodendritic
(Kv2.1-Lk-Tlcn
C-terminus).
Patch
clamp
experiments
HEK293
cells
showed
that
tags
used
this
study
did
not
significantly
alter
ArcLight’s
sensitivity
compared
controls.
AAV
infection
mouse
olfactory
bulb
demonstrated
effectively
localized
GEVI
mitral/tufted
cells,
including
densities,
presynaptic
terminals,
regions.
Furthermore,
i
n
vivo
imaging
mice
expressing
targeting-enhanced
variants
revealed
odorant-evoked
responses
similar
those
observed
with
original
ArcLight.
This
indicates
impact
sensing
capability
cells.
Nature Methods,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
20(10), С. 1581 - 1592
Опубликована: Сен. 18, 2023
Abstract
Here
we
report
SUPPORT
(statistically
unbiased
prediction
utilizing
spatiotemporal
information
in
imaging
data),
a
self-supervised
learning
method
for
removing
Poisson–Gaussian
noise
voltage
data.
is
based
on
the
insight
that
pixel
value
data
highly
dependent
its
neighboring
pixels,
even
when
temporally
adjacent
frames
alone
do
not
provide
useful
statistical
prediction.
Such
dependency
captured
and
used
by
convolutional
neural
network
with
blind
spot
to
accurately
denoise
which
existence
of
action
potential
time
frame
cannot
be
inferred
other
frames.
Through
simulations
experiments,
show
enables
precise
denoising
types
microscopy
image
while
preserving
underlying
dynamics
within
scene.
Microbial
rhodopsin–derived
genetically
encoded
voltage
indicators
(GEVIs)
are
powerful
tools
for
mapping
bioelectrical
dynamics
in
cell
culture
and
live
animals.
Förster
resonance
energy
transfer
(FRET)–opsin
GEVIs
use
voltage-dependent
quenching
of
an
attached
fluorophore,
achieving
high
brightness,
speed,
sensitivity.
However,
the
sensitivity
most
FRET-opsin
has
been
reported
to
decrease
or
vanish
under
two-photon
(2P)
excitation.
Here,
we
investigated
photophysics
Voltron1
Voltron2.
We
found
that
previously
negative-going
sensitivities
both
came
from
photocycle
intermediates,
not
opsin
ground
states.
The
were
nonlinear
functions
illumination
intensity;
Voltron1,
reversed
sign
low-intensity
illumination.
Using
photocycle-optimized
2P
protocols,
demonstrate
imaging
with
Voltron2
barrel
cortex
a
mouse.
These
results
open
door
high-speed
vivo.
Back-propagating
action
potentials
(bAPs)
regulate
synaptic
plasticity
by
evoking
voltage-dependent
calcium
influx
throughout
dendrites.
Attenuation
of
bAP
amplitude
in
distal
dendritic
compartments
alters
a
location-specific
manner
reducing
bAP-dependent
influx.
However,
it
is
not
known
if
neurons
exhibit
branch-specific
variability
signals,
independent
distance-dependent
attenuation.
Here,
we
reveal
that
bAPs
fail
to
evoke
through
voltage-gated
channels
(VGCCs)
specific
population
branches
mouse
cortical
layer
2/3
pyramidal
cells,
despite
substantial
VGCC-mediated
sister
branches.
These
contain
VGCCs
and
successfully
propagate
the
absence
input;
nevertheless,
they
bAP-evoked
due
reduction
amplitude.
We
demonstrate
these
have
more
elaborate
branch
structure
compared
branches,
which
causes
local
electrotonic
impedance
Finally,
show
still
amplify
synaptically-mediated
because
differences
voltage-dependence
kinetics
NMDA-type
glutamate
receptors.
Branch-specific
compartmentalization
signals
may
provide
mechanism
for
diversify
tuning
across
tree.
Nature Communications,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
16(1)
Опубликована: Фев. 4, 2025
Dendrites
on
neurons
support
electrical
excitations,
but
the
computational
significance
of
these
events
is
not
well
understood.
We
developed
molecular,
optical,
and
tools
for
all-optical
electrophysiology
in
dendrites.
mapped
sub-millisecond
voltage
dynamics
throughout
dendritic
trees
CA1
pyramidal
under
diverse
optogenetic
synaptic
stimulus
patterns,
acute
brain
slices.
Our
data
show
history-dependent
spike
back-propagation
distal
dendrites,
driven
by
locally
generated
Na+
spikes
(dSpikes).
Dendritic
depolarization
created
a
transient
window
dSpike
propagation,
opened
A-type
KV
channel
inactivation,
closed
slow
NaV
inactivation.
Collisions
dSpikes
with
inputs
triggered
calcium
N-methyl-D-aspartate
receptor
(NMDAR)-dependent
plateau
potentials
accompanying
complex
at
soma.
This
hierarchical
ion
network
acts
as
spike-rate
accelerometer,
providing
an
intuitive
picture
connecting
biophysics
to
associative
plasticity
rules.
Neural
mechanisms
mediating
information
flow
processing
dendrites
are
fully
Here
authors
techniques
map
bioelectrical
excitations
slices
mouse
tissue.
They
holistic
roles
back-propagation.
Science,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
388(6744), С. 322 - 328
Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2025
Synaptic
plasticity
underlies
learning
by
modifying
specific
synaptic
inputs
to
reshape
neural
activity
and
behavior.
However,
the
rules
governing
which
synapses
will
undergo
different
forms
of
in
vivo
during
whether
these
are
uniform
within
individual
neurons
remain
unclear.
Using
longitudinal
imaging
with
single-synapse
resolution
mouse
motor
cortex
learning,
we
found
that
apical
basal
dendrites
layer
2/3
(L2/3)
pyramidal
showed
distinct
activity-dependent
rules.
The
strengthening
is
predicted
local
coactivity
nearby
coincident
postsynaptic
action
potentials,
respectively.
Blocking
spiking
diminished
potentiation
without
affecting
plasticity.
Thus,
use
multiple
a
compartment-specific
manner
learning.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Май 26, 2023
Neurons
integrate
synaptic
inputs
within
their
dendrites
and
produce
spiking
outputs,
which
then
propagate
down
the
axon
back
into
where
they
contribute
to
plasticity.
Mapping
voltage
dynamics
in
dendritic
arbors
of
live
animals
is
crucial
for
understanding
neuronal
computation
plasticity
rules.
Here
we
combine
patterned
channelrhodopsin
activation
with
dual-plane
structured
illumination
imaging,
simultaneous
perturbation
monitoring
somatic
Layer
2/3
pyramidal
neurons
anesthetized
awake
mice.
We
examined
integration
compared
optogenetically
evoked,
spontaneous,
sensory-evoked
back-propagating
action
potentials
(bAPs).
Our
measurements
revealed
a
broadly
shared
membrane
throughout
arbor,
few
signatures
electrical
compartmentalization
among
inputs.
However,
observed
spike
rate
acceleration-dependent
propagation
bAPs
distal
dendrites.
propose
that
this
filtering
may
play
critical
role
activity-dependent
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Июнь 2, 2023
Dendrites
on
neurons
support
nonlinear
electrical
excitations,
but
the
computational
significance
of
these
events
is
not
well
understood.
We
developed
molecular,
optical,
and
analytical
tools
to
map
sub-millisecond
voltage
dynamics
throughout
dendritic
trees
CA1
pyramidal
under
diverse
optogenetic
synaptic
stimulus
patterns,
in
acute
brain
slices.
observed
history-dependent
spike
back-propagation
distal
dendrites,
driven
by
locally
generated
Na
Synaptic
plasticity
underlies
the
brain’s
ability
to
learn
and
adapt.
While
experiments
in
brain
slices
have
revealed
mechanisms
protocols
for
induction
of
between
pairs
neurons,
how
these
synaptic
changes
are
coordinated
biological
neuronal
networks
ensure
emergence
learning
remains
poorly
understood.
Simulation
modeling
emerged
as
important
tools
study
plastic
networks,
but
yet
achieve
a
scale
that
incorporates
realistic
network
structure,
active
dendrites,
multi-synapse
interactions,
key
determinants
plasticity.
To
rise
this
challenge,
we
endowed
an
existing
large-scale
cortical
model,
incorporating
data-constrained
dendritic
processing
multi-synaptic
connections,
with
calcium-based
model
functional
captures
diversity
excitatory
connections
extrapolated
vivo
-like
conditions.
This
allowed
us
dendrites
structure
interact
shape
stimulus
representations
at
microcircuit
level.
In
our
simulations,
acted
sparsely
specifically,
firing
rates
weight
distributions
remained
stable
without
additional
homeostatic
mechanisms.
At
circuit
level,
found
was
driven
by
co-firing
stimulus-evoked
assemblies,
spatial
clustering
synapses
on
topology
connectivity.
As
result
changes,
became
more
reliable
stimulus-specific
responses.
We
confirmed
testable
predictions
MICrONS
datasets,
openly
available
electron
microscopic
reconstruction
large
volume
tissue.
Our
results
quantify
architecture
higher-order
microcircuits
play
central
role
provide
foundation
elucidating
their
learning.