期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 85, 期 11, 页码 904-914出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.12.021
关键词
Adolescent alcohol; Amygdala; Anxiety; Arc; Enhancer RNA; epigenetic
资金
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [UO1AA-019971, U24AA-024605, RO1AA-010005, RO1AA-021662, P50AA-022538]
- Department of Veterans Affairs (Senior Research Career Scientist award)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual National Research Service Award Fellowship [F30 AA024948]
BACKGROUND: Adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) exposure is an emerging risk factor for adult psychopathology, such as anxiety disorders. Enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs transcribed from enhancer regions that regulate synaptic plasticity-associated gene expression, including Arc, but their role in AIE-induced susceptibility to anxiety in adulthood is unknown. METHODS: Rats were exposed to AIE (ethanol exposure 2 days on/off) or intermittent normal saline during postnatal days 28 to 41 and allowed to grow to adulthood for analysis of behavior and biochemical measures. Some AIE rats and rats with intermittent normal saline exposure were exposed to an acute challenge with ethanol in adulthood. Cohorts of alcohol-naive adult rats were cannulated in the central nucleus of amygdala and infused with either Kdm6b small interfering RNA or an antisense locked nucleic acid oligonucleotide specific to Arc eRNA before behavioral and biochemical analysis. RESULTS: AIE adult rats displayed heightened anxiety and decreased Arc eRNA expression, which is regulated epigenetically through decreased Kdm6b expression. This triggered condensed chromatin at the synaptic activity response element site and promoter of the Arc gene, facilitating increased negative elongation factor binding to the Arc promoter and decreasing Arc expression in the amygdala. Knockdown of Kdm6b or Arc eRNA expression in the central nucleus of amygdala provoked anxiety in alcohol-ndive adult rats and recapitulated the molecular and epigenetic phenotypes of AIE. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that eRNA regulation via epigenetic reprogramming in the amygdala, particularly at the Arc synaptic activity response element site, contributes to adult anxiety after adolescent alcohol exposure.
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