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JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/jib-2017-0024
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ApoE; Tomm40; App; Pomc; brain lipid metabolism; gene expression profile; social stress mouse model; RNA-Seq data; differentially expressed genes; brain regions; hypothalamus
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- Russian Science Foundation [14-15-00063]
- Russian Science Foundation [14-15-00063] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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ApoE expression status was proved to be a highly specific marker of energy metabolism rate in the brain. Along with its neighbor, Translocase of Outer Mitochondrial Membrane 40 kDa (TOMM40) which is involved in mitochondrial metabolism, the corresponding genomic region constitutes the neuroenergetic hotspot. Using RNA-Seq data from a murine model of chronic stress a significant positive expression coordination of seven neighboring genes in ApoE locus in five brain regions was observed. ApoE maintains one of the highest absolute expression values genome-wide, implying that ApoE can be the driver of the neighboring gene expression alteration observed under stressful loads. Notably, we revealed the highly statistically significant increase of ApoE expression in the hypothalamus of chronically aggressive (FDR < 0.007) and defeated (FDR < 0.001) mice compared to the control. Correlation analysis revealed a close association of ApoE and proopiomelanocortin (Pomc) gene expression profiles implying the putative neuroendocrine stress response background of ApoE expression elevation therein.
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