Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice
Abstract To select appropriate behaviour, individuals must rely on encoding of relevant features within their environment in the context of current and past experiences. This function has been linked to goal-associated activity patterns of hippocampal principal cells. Using single-unit recordings fr...
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| description | Abstract To select appropriate behaviour, individuals must rely on encoding of relevant features within their environment in the context of current and past experiences. This function has been linked to goal-associated activity patterns of hippocampal principal cells. Using single-unit recordings from optogenetically identified somatostatin-expressing interneurons (SOMIs) in the dentate gyrus of head-fixed mice trained in a spatial goal-oriented reward-learning task in virtual realities, we show that SOMI activity temporally precedes reward-locations in expert mice characterized by goal-anticipatory behaviour. Predictive goal-encoding by SOMIs is lost after translocation of learned goals to novel previously unrewarded sites leading to rapid reductions in anticipatory behaviour and fast reconfiguration of SOMI activity to times after reward onset in association with reward consumption at novel goal-sites. Chemogenetic silencing of SOMIs caused a loss of memory that trained goal-sites were no longer available. Thus, our data reveal the ability of SOMIs to flexibly encode goal-locations depending on current and past experiences to bias behavioral outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5dc1202708ae4f53804e1e88c19bca6b2025-08-20T03:27:10ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-06-0116111610.1038/s41467-025-60841-yPredictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male miceMei Yuan0Aurore Cazala1Sven Goedeke2Christian Leibold3Jonas-Frederic Sauer4Marlene Bartos5Institute for Physiology I, Medical Faculty, University of FreiburgInstitute for Physiology I, Medical Faculty, University of FreiburgFaculty of Biology, University of FreiburgFaculty of Biology, University of FreiburgInstitute for Physiology I, Medical Faculty, University of FreiburgInstitute for Physiology I, Medical Faculty, University of FreiburgAbstract To select appropriate behaviour, individuals must rely on encoding of relevant features within their environment in the context of current and past experiences. This function has been linked to goal-associated activity patterns of hippocampal principal cells. Using single-unit recordings from optogenetically identified somatostatin-expressing interneurons (SOMIs) in the dentate gyrus of head-fixed mice trained in a spatial goal-oriented reward-learning task in virtual realities, we show that SOMI activity temporally precedes reward-locations in expert mice characterized by goal-anticipatory behaviour. Predictive goal-encoding by SOMIs is lost after translocation of learned goals to novel previously unrewarded sites leading to rapid reductions in anticipatory behaviour and fast reconfiguration of SOMI activity to times after reward onset in association with reward consumption at novel goal-sites. Chemogenetic silencing of SOMIs caused a loss of memory that trained goal-sites were no longer available. Thus, our data reveal the ability of SOMIs to flexibly encode goal-locations depending on current and past experiences to bias behavioral outcomes.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60841-y |
| spellingShingle | Mei Yuan Aurore Cazala Sven Goedeke Christian Leibold Jonas-Frederic Sauer Marlene Bartos Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice Nature Communications |
| title | Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice |
| title_full | Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice |
| title_fullStr | Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice |
| title_short | Predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin-expressing interneurons in male mice |
| title_sort | predictive goal coding by dentate gyrus somatostatin expressing interneurons in male mice |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60841-y |
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