Abstract
Synapse-specificity of LTP ensures that no interference arises from inputs irrelevant to the memory to be encoded. In hippocampi of aged (21-28 months-old) mice LTP was relayed to unstimulated synapses blemishing its synapse-specificity. Diminished levels of the K+/Cl– cotransporter KCC2 and a depolarizing GABAA receptor-mediated synaptic component following LTP were the most likely causes for spreading the potentiation, unveiling novel mechanisms hindering information storage in the aged brain, and identifying KCC2 as a potential target for intervention.
Aging is associated with decreased learning and memory even in the absence of Alzheimer's disease1. The cellular substrates of this cognitive decline are poorly understood, but may relate to altered long-term potentiation (LTP)2, regarded as a key mechanism underlying information storage3. A hallmark of LTP is its dendritic clustering4 providing specific potentiation to synapses activated by a high-frequency stimulus. Currently, LTP is considered a “clustered plasticity” confined to specific dendritic domains where spines or small dendritic areas with diffusional links4 represent computational memory storage units. Spread of plasticity to elements not part of the memory-related cluster interferes with the learning and memory process5. Synaptic specificity of LTP reportedly breaks down with age1,2,6,7. Here we address potential mechanisms underlying this memory interference at an advanced age in mice.
In slices prepared from 3.75 to 6.25-month-old mice (“young”) and 21 to 28-month-old mice (“old”) we recorded evoked field responses (fEPSPs) from two isolated synaptic inputs (Supplementary Fig. 1) in area CA1 of the hippocampus. These mouse ages correspond to 20-26 years and 61.4-78.2 years, respectively, in humans (Supplementary Fig.2). LTP was induced by theta-burst stimulation8 (TBS). As previously reported in 12 to 14-month-old mice6,7 (∼40-45 years in humans), LTP showed no synapse specificity (Fig.1a; Supplementary Table1). These data are a subset of all LTP experiments (n=17 young and n=21 old mice) where the magnitude of LTP in old, 40 min after TBS, was larger than in young (fEPSP slope as ratio to pre-TBS values, old: 2.23±0.16, n=44 slices, young: 1.67±0.07, n=37 slices, p=0.0022, t=3.321, df=58.5, two-tailed unpaired t-test, unequal variances) mostly due to a larger proportion of rising LTP and some very large magnitude LTP in the old (Supplementary Fig.3). Paired-pulse facilitation (PPF) of fEPSPs was similar in young and old, but a small decrease in PPF was detected after potentiation of the untetanized pathway in old (Supplementary Fig.4). Thus, memory impairments during senescence do not necessarily result from deficits in LTP induction or its decreased magnitude9, but possibly from the spread of potentiation to unstimulated synapses.
Glutamatergic synapses outnumber GABAergic ones in the apical dendrites of CA1 pyramidal cells10, but when the GABAA receptors' reversal potential (EGABA) is sufficiently negative, the latter synapses can reduce both dendritic Ca2+ spiking/signaling11 and LTP12. The competitive GABAA receptor antagonist gabazine (GBZ 25μM) marginally enhanced LTP in young, but surprisingly, blocked LTP induction and its spread to unstimulated synapses in old (Fig.1b). L-655,708 (200nM), a negative allosteric modulator of α5 subunit-containing GABAA receptors, also partially antagonized LTP in old (Supplementary Fig.5a). Blocking NMDA receptors critical for LTP induction3 (D-AP5 50μM) fully blocked LTP in young, but only partially in old (Supplementary Fig.5b), consistent with the idea of a Ca2+ dysregulation contributing to LTP induction observed in 12 months-old mice6,7. Applying GBZ before (Supplementary Fig.6a) and 40 min after (Supplementary Fig.6b) LTP induction reduced fEPSPs only in old and only in the tetanized input. To further probe the participation of GABAA receptors in fEPSPS we applied the antagonist bicucculine methiodide (BMI) by rapid iontophoresis in the stratum radiatum. In young, BMI iontophoresis had no effect on fEPSPs before or after LTP induction. In sharp contrast, BMI reversibly reduced fEPSPs when applied after LTP induction in old, even as early as 12-14 min after TBS (Fig.1c&d; Supplemetary Table2). Thus far, our results are consistent with a depolarizing GABAA receptor-mediated component contributing to the induction (Fig.1b) and maintenance (Fig.1c&d) of LTP, and potentially, even to the spread of LTP to unstimulated synapses in old. A depolarizing dendritic GABA response had to arise during or immediately after the TBS, as BMI iontophoresis (Fig.1e) or gabazine perfusion did not affect dendritic fEPSPs recorded before TBS in old (Supplementary Fig.6a). Accordingly, LTP in untetanized synapses could ensue through a depolarizing GABA response during TBS that is no longer present 40 min later (Supplementary Fig.6b).
Phasic and tonic GABAergic events in CA1 pyramidal cells in whole-cell recordings showed no differences between young and old (Supplementary Fig.7). We next used pharmacological and optogenetic means to alter Cl– in CA1 pyramidal cell dendrites. Preincubation of young with the KCC2 antagonist VU024055113-15 (for 1 hr, 10 μM) enhanced LTP and spread the potentiation to unstimulated synapses (Fig.2a&b), resembling untreated old. Conversely, the KCC2 enhancer CLP25713 (1 hr preincubation, 100 μM) had little effect on LTP in old, but more importantly, confined the potentiation solely to the tetanized synapses (Fig.2a&b). Thus, in the old CLP257 restored properties of LTP to those seen in young, indicating that KCC2 function might be impaired in senescence. CLP257 in young and VU0240551 in old (Fig.2a&b) were ineffective (Supplemetary Table3). LTP magnitude in the tetanized pathway was uncorrelated with the potentiation of the non-tetanized pathway; therefore, increased LTP by VU0240551 in young or reduced LTP by CLP257 in old were not responsible for changes seen in untetanized pathways (Fig 2c). Quantitative Western blots in young and old CA1 mini slices harvested before, and at two time points (10 min and 40 min) after LTP induction showed significantly reduced levels of monomeric KCC2 in old at both time points after induction of LTP (Fig.3a&b). As KCC2 oligomerization can enhance its function15, we examined oligomerized KCC2 levels in old and found them to be reduced at 40 min but not at 10 min (Fig.3c&d), producing a lower ratio of mono- to oligomeric KCC2 of at 10 min (0.07±0.02, n=7) than at 40 min (0.16 ±0.04, n=15). We also used another approach to elevate intracellular Cl– yielding a depolarizing EGABA, i.e., through prolonged activation of the Cl– pump halorhodopsin (eNpHR3.0), known to produce excessive Cl– loading of neurons16. In slices from young mice expressing eNpHR3.0 in CA1 pyramidal cells (Supplementary Fig.8a&b) 568-nm laser illumination (> 10 min before and during TBS) resulted in very large LTP (Supplementary Fig.8c), resembling those found in the outliers of old (Supplementary Fig.3c). Like in old controls, robust potentiation of the unstimulated pathway ensued in Cl–-loaded young pyramidal cells.
We presented evidence for diminished KCC2 levels after LTP in old, and obtained several signs for altered EGABA: 1) GBZ antagonized LTP induction in old, but had little effect in young; 2) GBZ reduced potentiated responses (after LTP) in old but not in young; 3) after LTP rapid BMI iontophoresis transiently reduced fEPSPs only in old, revealing a depolarizing component; 4) blocking KCC2 in young lead to the loss of its synapse specificity, resembling the old; 5) enhancing KCC2 in old restored the synapse specificity of LTP, as seen in the young; 6) artificial Cl– loading in young resembled LTP in the old, including loss of synaptic specificity. Yet, none of our approaches directly measured local Cl̄ changes in small dendritic compartments or even spines. Somatic recordings only account for the activity of GABAergic synapses close to the cell body17, whereas EGABA may quickly and dynamically change in a small dendritic volume18, and may be confined to the spines19. Local dendritic alterations in EGABA are impossible to detect with somatic perforated patch recordings or even with the continuously improving Cl– indicators that are still not without problems20. As KCC2 is subject to complex regulatory events including phosphorylation, internalization, and Ca2+-dependent degradation14,15, the precise mechanisms underlying its failure during repetitive synaptic activation in the aged brain remain to be determined. Pending further verification, we propose that the resulting GABAergic depolarization spreads the Ca2+ signal to dendritic branches not destined to be part of clustered plasticity (Supplementary Fig.9). Consequently, plasticity disperses to synapses not involved in transmitting information intended for storage, severely confounding memory induction and retrieval5. Conversion of GABAergic inhibition into excitation during repetitive activation of old synapses could also explain why reducing excitability improves cognition in aged humans21 and rodents22 alike. Reversal of the blemishing spread of synaptic plasticity in the old brain by a KCC2 enhancer may add the treatment of cognitive disorders during senescence to the already wide-ranging and promising prospects of clinical applications for such drugs13.
Online Methods
Animal Subjects
In this study we used young (3.75 to 6.25 months-old, n=45) or old (21-28 months-old, n=35) C57BL/6J mice of both sexes (69 males and 11 females) bred in-house or acquired from the National Institute of Aging (NIA). Halorhodopsin (eNpHR3.0) expressing mice (n=6) were generated by crossing Camk2a-Cre/ERT2 mice (JAX Stock # 012362) with Rosa-CAG-LSL-eNpHR3.0-EYFP-WPRE Ai39 mice (JAX Stock # 014539). Mice were group-housed with ad libitum access to food and water on a 12-h light/dark cycle, under the care of the UCLA Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine (DLAM). All experiments were performed according to a protocol (ARC # 1995-045-53B) approved by the UCLA Chancellor's Animal Research Committee. Genotyping was performed by Transnetyx (Memphis, TN, USA).
Slice Preparation and Electrophysiology
Hippocampal slices were prepared as previously reported23. Briefly mice were anesthetized with isoflurane and decapitated following UCLA Chancellor's Animal Research Committee protocol. Coronal 350μm slices were cut on a Leica VT1000S vibratome in ice-cold N-Methyl-D-Glucamine (NMDG)-based HEPES-buffered solution, containing in mM: 135 NMDG, 10 D-glucose, 4 MgCl2, 0.5 CaCl2, 1 KCl, 1.2 KH2PO4, 20 HEPES, 27 sucrose (bubbled with 100% O2, pH 7.4, 290 –300 mOsm/L). Slices were incubated at 32°C in an interface chamber in a reduced sodium artificial CSF (aCSF), containing in mM: NaCl 85, D-glucose 25, sucrose 55, KCl 2.5, NaH2PO4 1.25, CaCl2 0.5, MgCl2 4, NaHCO3 26, pH 7.3–7.4 when bubbled with 95% O2, 5% CO2. After 20 min low sodium aCSF was substituted for normal aCSF (naCSF) at room temperature, containing in mM: NaCl 126, D-glucose 10, MgCl2 2, CaCl2 2, KCl 2.5, NaH2PO4 1.25, Na Pyruvate 1.5, L-Glutamine 1, NaHCO3 26, pH 7.3-7.4 when bubbled with 95% O2, 5% CO2. Recordings were done in an interface chamber at 35°C perfused with naCSF.
The Schaffer collateral pathway was stimulated every 30 s with two pulses, 50 ms apart. Average stimulus durations (in μs, young: 55.16±0.96, n=116; old: 56.02±1.38, n=96, p=0.6039, t=0.512, df=175.3, two-tailed unpaired t-test), stimulus intensities (in μA, young: 58.49±1.01, n=116; old: 60.77±1.47, n=96, p=0.1925, t=1.308, df=173.9, two-tailed unpaired t-test), and stimulus charges (in nC, young: 3.27±0.10, n=116; old: 3.52±0.16, n=96, p=0.1747, t=1.363, df=163.15, two-tailed unpaired t-test) used in our experiments were all comparable between the two preparations. Similarly, the slopes of the fEPSPs elicited during the control period in the two preparations by the S1 or S2 stimuli were comparable (in V/s, S1 young: 0.543±0.035, n=37; S1 old: 0.594±0.037, n=44, p=0.32, t=1.001, t=78.9, two-tailed unpaired t-test; S2 young: 0.381±0.060, n=8; S2 old: 0.503±0.059, n=15, p=0.20, t=1.33, df=18.46, two-tailed unpaired t-test). Long term potentiation was induced by stimulating the Schaffer collaterals with two-times the duration of baseline stimuli with a theta burst protocol (TBS) repeated twice, 30 s apart (4 pulses, 100 s-1 repeated 20 times every 350 ms). Synaptic specificity of the LTP was tested after determining the independence of the two stimulated Schaffer collateral pathways by lack of reciprocal paired pulse interactions. In each of the experiments testing synaptic specificity, one of the two independent pathways was randomly (coin flip) chosen to be tetanized. Evoked fEPSPs were recorded in CA1 stratum radiatum (SR) with the use of a patch pipette (3-5 MΩ resistance) filled with naCSF connected to the headstage of an amplifier (A-M Systems Inc., model 3000) where it was band-pass filtered between 0.1 and 1000 Hz. The signal was fed through an instrumentation amplifier (Brownlee BP Precision, model 210A) and sampled at 10,000 s-1 with a National Instruments A/D board. Field potentials were recorded using EVAN (custom-designed LabView-based software from Thotec) and analyzed with a custom written procedure (Wavemetrics, IGOR Pro 6.22A). The slope of the fEPSPs was measured during a 0.5 – 1.0 ms window of their steepest rising phase. The LTP induction was categorized as follows: 1) “no LTP”, when the average of the fEPSP slope measured between 35 and 40 min post-TBS was not significantly (p<0.05, Mann-Whitney U-test) larger (i.e., it was equal or smaller) than the average fEPSP slope measured for 5 min just before TBS; 2) “rising LTP”, if the average fEPSP slope measured between 35 and 40 min post-TBS was significantly (p<0.05, Mann-Whitney U-test) larger than that measured during the 5 min before TBS, and the fEPSP slope significantly grew over the 20–40 min after the TBS (fEPSP slope vs time, linear regression coefficient > 0, p<0.05); 3) “steady state LTP”, if the average fEPSP slope between 35 and 40 min post-TBS was significantly (p<0.05, Mann-Whitney U-test) larger than control, but the fEPSP slope did not significantly grow over 20–40 min after TBS (fEPSP slope vs time, linear regression coefficient not significantly ≠ 0, p>0.05).
All CA1 pyramidal cell somatic whole-cell recordings were made in naCSF in visually identified neurons (custom-made IR-DIC video-microscopy; Olympus 40× water immersion objective) with an Axopatch 200B amplifier. Recording electrodes were pulled from borosilicate glass capillaries with an inner filament (KG-33, 1.12 mm inner diameter, 1.5 mm outer diameter; Garner Glass) pulled to tip diameters of ∼1.0 μm in two stages using a horizontal puller (DMZ Universal Puller, Zeitz Instruments GmbH, Munich, Germany). Intracellular solutions contained the following (in mM): 130 Cs-methylsulphate, 5 CsCl, 10 HEPES, 10 EGTA, 5 MgATP, adjusted to pH 7.25 with CsOH (280-290 mOsm). Voltage-clamp recordings were made at Vh = 0 to +5 mV. The DC resistances of the electrodes were 4 - 6 MW. Series resistance was compensated by 70-90% using lag values of 7-10 μs. Before compensation, series resistance was <15 MΩ.
All drugs were purchased from Tocris. L655,708 (200 nM), D-AP5 (25 μM), SR-95531 hydrobromide (gabazine, abbreviated as GBZ, 20 μM) were perfused either 10 min before or 40 min after TBS. In all experiments where GBZ was perfused, the CA3 was mechanically disconnected from CA1 immediately after slices were prepared, in order to prevent development of spontaneous epileptiform activity in the slices. For VU0240551 (10 μM, previously dissolved in DMSO, final vehicle concentration 0.01%) and CLP257 (100 μM, previously dissolved in DMSO, final vehicle concentration 0.1%) slices were incubated in the drug for 1 h, recordings were done in the continued presence of VU0240551 or in aCSF for slices preincubated in CLP257.
For iontophoresis experiments (-)-bicuculline methiodide (BMI, 10 mM) was dissolved in a 1.5 M NaCl solution, pH 3, and applied through a patch pipette. Typically, ten 50 nA pulses of 300 ms duration were applied to eject BMI with the use of an ultrafast iontophoresis system (MVCS-02C npi, npi electronic GmbH, Germany). Between applications BMI was restricted using an active holding current.
For eNpHR3.0 light stimulation experiments an Ar-Kr laser was used (Cambridge Laser laboratories, Fremont, California). Wavelength selection was done with an AOTF (NEOS) at 568 nm. Light was coupled into an optical fiber (Ø 800 μm) and the total light power used was 5 mW over a tissue area of Ø 1 mm (0.785 mm2). When used, light was kept on throughout the duration of the experiments.
Quantitative Western Blots
The hippocampal CA area straddling the recording electrode was microdissected from coronal slices immediately after recording and frozen in liquid nitrogen. Control non-LTP slices were kept under the same conditions of perfusion and temperature as slices that received the tetanus. Protein extraction and Western blots were done as previously reported24. Briefly, samples were homogenized for 2 minutes in ice-cold homogenization buffer containing in mM: 10 NaPO4, 100 NaCl, 10 Na4P2O7, 25 NaF, 5 EDTA, 5 EGTA, 1 Na3VO4, 2% Triton X-100, 0.5% deoxycholate, pH 7.4, in the presence of protease inhibitors (for 10 ml, 1 Complete Mini tablet, Roche, and phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride 100 μM, Sigma). Supernatant was collected after 30 min incubation on ice, and following 20 min centrifugation at 12000 rpm at room temperature. Protein concentrations were determined with DC™ Protein Assay (Bio-Rad). Three μg of total protein were diluted in phosphate buffer saline and Laemmli Sample Buffer (Bio-Rad) containing 5% 2-mercaptoethanol (Sigma), and later separated by gel electrophoresis (10% precast polyacrylamide gel, Bio-Rad). Proteins were then transferred to a 0.2 μm PVDF membrane (Bio-Rad). Membranes were blocked in 5% nonfat milk and 2% BSA and blotted in rabbit polyclonal anti-KCC2, 1:1000 (Millipore, 07-432). GAPDH was used as loading control (rabbit monoclonal anti-GAPDH 1:2000, Abcam, ab181602). Membranes were then incubated in anti-rabbit horseradish peroxidase-labeled antibody, 1:2000 (GE Healthcare Lifesciences), and developed with Clarity Western ECL Substrate (Bio-Rad). Chemiluminescence was detected with CL-Xposure films (Thermo-Scientific). Optical density of bands was measured with ImageJ software (NIH). The potentiation measured in the old slices harvested for Western blots at 10 min after TBS (1.66+0.70, n=7) was similar (p=0.21, two-tailed unpaired t-test) to that seen in other old slices at 10 min after TBS (1.86+0.06, n=44).
Immunohistochemistry and Microscopy
Brains were perfused and tissues processed as previously described23,25. Briefly, deeply anesthetized mice were transcardially perfused with 50 ml of 4% paraformaldehyde in 0.12 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.3. Brains were cryoprotected in 30% sucrose solution in Millonigs modified PBS, frozen and sectioned (coronal, 35 μm). Slices were mounted and coverslipped. Images were collected using a confocal microscope (Leica TCS SP2) using LAS AF software (Leica Microsystems). Digital projection images of 5 μm z-stacks were assembled and using NIH ImageJ software. Epifluorescent images were collected using an Olympus BX51 microscope equipped with a Q Imaging Retiga 2000R camera and software. Tiles were captured under the same light intensity and exposure limits and later composed in single images using a Stitching Plugin26 for ImageJ.
Statistics
No statistical methods were used to pre-determine sample sizes but our sample sizes are similar to or larger than those generally employed in the field. On a daily basis, animals were randomly picked from their home cages by an independent animal technician, and were assigned to the various experimental procedures by the experimenter. Collection of data was not randomized and was not done blindly, but experiments were repeated over a long study period (>2 years). Data analyses were done by a blinded investigator, and the conditions of the experiments were revealed only after all data were analyzed. No animals were excluded from the study. As indicated in Supplementary Fig.3, 7 young and 6 old slices representing 16% and 12% respectively of the total number of slices in each group, all originating from different animals, showed no LTP and hence were excluded from further LTP analyses. Statistical tests (one-way and two-way ANOVA, two-tailed paired or unpaired t-tests with uneaqual variances and sample sizes, two-tailed χ2 tests, and nonparametric tests) and the exact p-values are clearly indicated in the text, figure legends, tables, and checklist. Significance was set at p<0.05. The distribution of individual data points is shown in most figures. In general, data distribution was assumed to be normal but this was not formally tested.
Data Availability
The data that support the findings including original films of the Western blots of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.
Supplementary Material
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by a NIH-NINDS grant NS030549 (I.M.) and the Coelho Endowment to I.M. Confocal laser scanning microscopy was performed at the CNSI Advanced Light Microscopy/Spectroscopy shared resource facility at UCLA, supported with funding from NIH- NCRR shared resources grant (CJX1-443835-WS-29646) and NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant (CHE-0722519). We would like to thank W. Wei for performing the whole-cell recordings, Albert M. Barth for help with Igor procedures, Laurel Ormiston and R. Main Lazaro for expert technical assistance, and all members of the ModyLab for helpful comments during data presentation sessions.
Footnotes
Author Contributions: IF performed experiments and collected data. IF, GF and IM conceived the study, designed experiments, analyzed and interpreted data, prepared figures, and wrote manuscript.
Competing Financial Interests: The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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The data that support the findings including original films of the Western blots of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.