• Neuroscience · Feb 2023

    Cofilin 1 is dynamically modulated during postnatal development and by visual input in the mouse visual cortex.

    • Agustin Laguardia, Agustina Dapueto, Hanna McCuistion, and RossiFrancesco MattiaFMLaboratorio de Neurociencias "Neuroplasticity Unit", Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay. Electronic address: fmrossi@fcien.edu.uy..
    • Laboratorio de Neurociencias "Neuroplasticity Unit", Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay. Electronic address: agustinlaguardia@hotmail.com.
    • Neuroscience. 2023 Feb 1; 510: 147156147-156.

    AbstractCofilin 1 is an actin depolymerizing protein playing a fundamental role in the turnover of actin filaments specifically in dendritic spines, where it has been associated with structural and functional plasticity processes. Using a differential proteomic approach, we recently identified cofilin 1 as a potential candidate for controlling plasticity levels in the mouse visual cortex. Here, we focus on analyzing the expression of cofilin 1 and of its serine-3 phosphorylated inactive form in the mouse visual cortex during postnatal development and its modulation by visual input. Western blot experiments showed that cofilin 1 decreases from the critical period to the adult stage, in correlation with the decreasing level of cortical plasticity, and that monocular deprivation increases its expression in the cortex contralateral to the deprived eye during the critical period but not in the adult stage. By immunohistochemistry, we identified that the phospho-cofilin 1 immunopositive signal is homogeneously expressed along the different layers of the mouse visual cortex and that it increases during postnatal development. Furthermore, monocular deprivation increases the phospho-cofilin 1 signal in the contralateral cortex to the deprived eye during the critical period but not in the adult stage. Altogether, these results suggest that cofilin 1 and its modification by phosphorylation are relevant players in the processes controlling experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse visual cortex.Copyright © 2022 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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