Neonatal Maternal Separation Alters the Capacity of Adult Neural Precursor Cells to Differentiate into Neurons Via Methylation of Retinoic Acid Receptor Gene Promoter

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作者
Boku, Shuken [1 ,2 ]
Toda, Hiroyuki [1 ,3 ]
Nakagawa, Shin [1 ]
Kato, Akiko [1 ]
Inoue, Takeshi [1 ]
Koyama, Tsukasa [1 ]
Hiroi, Noboru [2 ,4 ,5 ]
Kusumi, Ichiro [1 ]
机构
[1] Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
[2] Albert Einstein Coll Med, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
[3] Natl Def Med Coll, Dept Psychiat, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359, Japan
[4] Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dominick Purpura Dept Neurosci, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
[5] Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Genet, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
Adult neurogenesis; Dentate gyrus; DNA methylation; DNA methyltransferase; Maternal separation; Retinoic acid receptor; LONG-EVANS RATS; EARLY-LIFE STRESS; DENTATE GYRUS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; DNA METHYLATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS; CPG BINDING-PROTEIN-1; ENRICHED ENVIRONMENT; BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSES;
D O I
10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.07.008
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
BACKGROUND: Early life stress is thought to contribute to psychiatric disorders, but the precise mechanisms underlying this link are poorly understood. As neonatal stress decreases adult hippocampal neurogenesis, which, in turn, functionally contributes to many behavioral phenotypes relevant to psychiatric disorders, we examined how in vivo neonatal maternal separation (NMS) impacts the capacity of adult hippocampal neural precursor cells via epigenetic alterations in vitro. METHODS: Rat pups were separated from their dams for 3 hours daily from postnatal day (PND) 2 to PND 14 or were never separated from the dam (as control animals). We isolated adult neural precursor cells from the hippocampal dentate gyrus at PND 56 and assessed rates of proliferation, apoptosis, and differentiation in cell culture. We also evaluated the effect of DNA methylation at the retinoic acid receptor (RAR) promoter stemming from NMS on adult neural precursor cells. RESULTS: NMS attenuated neural differentiation of adult neural precursor cells but had no detectible effect on proliferation, apoptosis, or astroglial differentiation. The DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitor, 5-aza-dC, reversed a reduction by NMS of neural differentiation of adult neural precursor cells. NMS increased DNMT1 expression and decreased expression of RAR alpha. An RAR alpha agonist increased neural differentiation and an antagonist reduced retinoic acid-induced neural differentiation. NMS increased the methylated portion of RAR alpha promoter, and the DNMT inhibitor reversed a reduction by NMS of RAR alpha messenger RNA expression. CONCLUSIONS: NMS attenuates the capacity of adult hippocampal neural precursor cells to differentiate into neurons by decreasing expression of RAR alpha through DNMT1-mediated methylation of its promoter.
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页码:335 / 344
页数:10
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