bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.19.999094; this version posted March 20, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. AMPAR trafficking dependent LTP initiates cortical remapping and adaptive behaviors during sensory experience Tiago Campelo1,2, Elisabete Augusto1,2, Nicolas Chenouard1,2, Aron de Miranda1,2, Vladimir Kouskoff1,2, Daniel Choquet1,2,3*, and Frédéric Gambino1,2*# 1Interdiscliplinary Institute for NeuroScience (IINS), CNRS, Centre Broca Nouvelle- Aquitaine, 146, rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux, France. 2 UMR5297, University of Bordeaux, 146, rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux, France. 10 3 Bordeaux Imaging Center, UMS 3420 CNRS, US4 INSERM, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France * These authors jointly supervised this work # Lead contact Send correspondence to
[email protected] or frederic.gambino@u- bordeaux.fr 20 Abstract Cortical plasticity improves behaviors and helps recover lost functions after injury by adapting neuronal computations. However, the underlying synaptic and circuit mechanisms remain unclear. In mice, we found that trimming all but one whisker enhances sensory responses from the spared whisker in the somatosensory barrel cortex and occludes whisker-mediated long-term potentiation (w-LTP) in vivo. In addition, whisking-dependent behaviors that are initially impaired by single whisker experience (SWE) rapidly recover when associated cortical regions remap. Blocking the surface diffusion of AMPA receptors (AMPARs) suppresses the expression of w-LTP in naïve mice 30 with all whiskers intact, demonstrating that physiologically induced LTP in vivo requires AMPARs trafficking. We used this approach to demonstrate that w-LTP is required for SWE-mediated strengthening of synaptic inputs and initiates the recovery of previously learned skills during the early phases of SWE.