AUTHOR=Zhang Jiabin , Yin Jerry , Wesley Cedric S.

TITLE=From Drosophila development to adult: clues to Notch function in long-term memory

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2013

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2013.00222

DOI=10.3389/fncel.2013.00222

ISSN=1662-5102

ABSTRACT=<p>Notch is a cell surface receptor that is well known to mediate inter-cellular communication during animal development. Data in the field indicate that it is also involved in the formation of long-term memory (LTM) in the fully developed adults and in memory loss upon neurodegeneration. Our studies in the model organism <italic>Drosophila</italic> reveal that a non-canonical Notch-protein kinase C activity that plays critical roles in embryonic development also regulates cyclic-AMP response element binding protein during LTM formation in adults. Here we present a perspective on how the various known features of Notch function relate to LTM formation and how they might interface with elements of Wingless/Wnt signaling in this process.</p>