中国神经再生研究(英文版) ›› 2025, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (11): 3259-3272.doi: 10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-24-00054

• 原著:脑损伤修复保护与再生 • 上一篇    下一篇

谷氨酸能神经元中去泛素化酶CYLD缺失导致基底外侧杏仁核异常兴奋活动:与声音恐惧记忆有关

  

  • 出版日期:2025-11-15 发布日期:2025-02-25
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目、广东省基础与应用基础研究基金项目及广州市科技局基础研究计划基金项目

Glutamatergic CYLD deletion leads to aberrant excitatory activity in the basolateral amygdala: association with enhanced cued fear expression

Huidong Li1, 2, Faqin Li1 , Zhaoyi Chen1 , Erwen Wu1 , Xiaoxi Dai1 , Danni Li1 , Haojie An1 , Shiyi Zeng1 , Chunyan Wang3 , Li Yang2, *, Cheng Long1, 4, *   

  1. 1 School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China;  2 School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China;  3 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China;  4 South China Normal University-Panyu Central Hospital Joint Laboratory of Translational Medical Research, Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • Online:2025-11-15 Published:2025-02-25
  • Contact: Li Yang, PhD, yang_li@gzhu.edu.cn; Cheng Long, PhD, longcheng@m.scnu.edu.cn.
  • Supported by:
    This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nos. 32371065 (to CL) and 32170950 (to LY); the Natural Science Foundation of the Guangdong Province, No. 2023A1515010899 (to CL); and the Science and Technology Projects in Guangzhou, Nos. 2023A4J0578 and 2024A03J0180 (to CW).

摘要:

基底外侧杏仁核中神经元活动、突触传递和分子变化在恐惧记忆中起着重要的作用。CYLD是一种能对对核因子转录κB通路进行负调控的去泛素酶。尽管CYLD已在非神经元细胞中得到了很好的研究,但其在高表达的大脑中却被忽视了。最近有研究发现,CYLD可参与谷氨酸能突触的重塑、神经炎症、恐惧记忆、焦虑和自闭症样行为。然而,CYLD在谷氨酸能神经元中的确切作用尚不清楚。此次实验首先发现,基底外侧杏仁核CYLD参与了声音恐惧记忆信息处理过程。紧接在特异性敲除谷氨酸能神经元CYLD转基因模型小鼠中可见特异性敲除谷氨酸能神经元CYLD仅增强了雄性小鼠的声音恐惧记忆表达,未对雌性小鼠发生影响。进一步对雄性特异性敲除谷氨酸能神经元CYLD转基因模型小鼠进行研究发现,其恐惧记忆异常可能与基底外侧杏仁核神经元激活程度增加、兴奋性突触传递受损、谷氨酸受体表达水平改变及小胶质细胞过度激活有关。上述结果表明谷氨酸能神经元CYLD在维持正常的神经元、突触和小胶质细胞激活中发挥着重要的作用,在一定程度上参与声音恐惧记忆。

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-8588 (Li Yang); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0904-796X (Cheng Long); 

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8069-0166 (Huidong Li)

关键词: CYLD, 去泛素酶, 谷氨酸能神经元, 条件恐惧, 基底外侧杏仁核, 神经元激活, 突触传递, N-甲基-D-天冬氨酸受体1, 谷氨酸受体1, 小胶质细胞激活

Abstract: Neuronal activity, synaptic transmission, and molecular changes in the basolateral amygdala play critical roles in fear memory. Cylindromatosis (CYLD) is a deubiquitinase that negatively regulates the nuclear factor kappa-B pathway. CYLD is well studied in non-neuronal cells, yet underinvestigated in the brain, where it is highly expressed. Emerging studies have shown involvement of CYLD in the remodeling of glutamatergic synapses, neuroinflammation, fear memory, and anxiety- and autism-like behaviors. However, the precise role of CYLD in glutamatergic neurons is largely unknown. Here, we first proposed involvement of CYLD in cued fear expression. We next constructed transgenic model mice with specific deletion of Cyld from glutamatergic neurons. Our results show that glutamatergic CYLD deficiency exaggerated the expression of cued fear in only male mice. Further, loss of CYLD in glutamatergic neurons resulted in enhanced neuronal activation, impaired excitatory synaptic transmission, and altered levels of glutamate receptors accompanied by over-activation of microglia in the basolateral amygdala of male mice. Altogether, our study suggests a critical role of glutamatergic CYLD in maintaining normal neuronal, synaptic, and microglial activation. This may contribute, at least in part, to cued fear expression.

Key words: basolateral amygdala, cued fear expression, cylindromatosis, deubiquitinase, glutamate receptor 1, glutamatergic neuron, microglial activation, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 1, neuronal activation, synaptic transmission