miRNA-Dependent Control of Homeostatic Plasticity in Neurons

Sandra Dubes; Alexandre Favereaux; Olivier Thoumine; Mathieu Letellier

doi:10.3389/fncel.2019.00536

miRNA-Dependent Control of Homeostatic Plasticity in Neurons

Front Cell Neurosci. 2019 Dec 5:13:536. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2019.00536. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Sandra Dubes^{1

2}, Alexandre Favereaux^{1

2}, Olivier Thoumine^{1

2}, Mathieu Letellier^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ University of Bordeaux, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France.
² CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France.

Abstract

Homeostatic plasticity is a form of plasticity in which neurons compensate for changes in neuronal activity through the control of key physiological parameters such as the number and the strength of their synaptic inputs and intrinsic excitability. Recent studies revealed that miRNAs, which are small non-coding RNAs repressing mRNA translation, participate in this process by controlling the translation of multiple effectors such as glutamate transporters, receptors, signaling molecules and voltage-gated ion channels. In this review, we present and discuss the role of miRNAs in both cell-wide and compartmentalized forms of homeostatic plasticity as well as their implication in pathological processes associated with homeostatic failure.

Keywords: homeostatic plasticity; membrane excitability; miRNA–microRNA; protein translation; synaptic plasticity; synaptic scaling; synaptic strength.

Publication types

Review