Molecular BrainPub Date : 2024-05-15DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01093-7
Dan Zhang, Xiaoqing Dong, Xiaoying Li, Yanting Yang, Hongna Li, Yue Hong, Guang Yang, Xiehe Kong, Xuejun Wang, Xiaopeng Ma
{"title":"Moxibustion ameliorates chronic inflammatory visceral pain via spinal circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks: a central mechanism study","authors":"Dan Zhang, Xiaoqing Dong, Xiaoying Li, Yanting Yang, Hongna Li, Yue Hong, Guang Yang, Xiehe Kong, Xuejun Wang, Xiaopeng Ma","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01093-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-024-01093-7","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to unveil the central mechanism of moxibustion treating chronic inflammatory visceral pain (CIVP) from the angle of circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks in the spinal cord. The rat CIVP model was established using a mixture of 5% (w/v) 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid and 50% ethanol at a volume ratio of 2:1 via enema. Rats in the moxibustion group received herb-partitioned moxibustion at Tianshu (ST25, bilateral) and Qihai (CV6) points. The abdominal withdrawal reflex (AWR), mechanical withdrawal threshold (MWT), and thermal withdrawal latency (TWL) were adopted for pain behavior observation and pain sensitivity assessment. The circRNA, miRNA, and mRNA expression profiles were detected using the high-throughput sequencing technique. Relevant databases and bioinformatics analysis methods were used to screen for differentially expressed (DE) RNAs and build a circRNA-miRNA-mRNA (competing endogenous RNA) ceRNA regulatory network. The real-time quantitative PCR was employed to verify the sequencing result. CIVP rat models had a significantly higher AWR and lower TWL and MWT than normal rats. Between normal and model rats, there were 103 DE-circRNAs, 16 DE-miRNAs, and 397 DE-mRNAs in the spinal cord. Compared with the model group, the moxibustion group had a lower AWR and higher TWL and MWT; between these two groups, there were 118 DE-circRNAs, 15 DE-miRNAs, and 804 DE-mRNAs in the spinal cord. Two ceRNA networks were chosen to be verified. As a result, moxibustion’s analgesic effect on visceral pain in CIVP rats may be associated with regulating the circRNA_02767/rno-miR-483-3p/Gfap network in the spinal cord and improving central sensitization.","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140925869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic pain enhances excitability of corticotropin-releasing factor-expressing neurons in the oval part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis","authors":"Ryoko Uchida, Yasutaka Mukai, Taiju Amano, Kenji Sakimura, Keiichi Itoi, Akihiro Yamanaka, Masabumi Minami","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01094-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-024-01094-6","url":null,"abstract":"We previously reported that enhanced corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) caused the aversive responses during acute pain and suppressed the brain reward system during chronic pain. However, it remains to be examined whether chronic pain alters the excitability of CRF neurons in the BNST. In this study we investigated the chronic pain-induced changes in excitability of CRF-expressing neurons in the oval part of the BNST (ovBNSTCRF neurons) by whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology. CRF-Cre; Ai14 mice were used to visualize CRF neurons by tdTomato. Electrophysiological recordings from brain slices prepared from a mouse model of neuropathic pain revealed that rheobase and firing threshold were significantly decreased in the chronic pain group compared with the sham-operated control group. Firing rate of the chronic pain group was higher than that of the control group. These data indicate that chronic pain elevated neuronal excitability of ovBNSTCRF neurons.","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140839095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molecular BrainPub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01092-8
Hyun-ju Lee, JinHan Nam, Jeong-Woo Hwang, Jin-Hee Park, Yoo Joo Jeong, Ji-Yeong Jang, Su-Jeong Kim, A-Ran Jo, Hyang-Sook Hoe
{"title":"L-DOPA regulates neuroinflammation and Aβ pathology through NEP and ADAM17 in a mouse model of AD","authors":"Hyun-ju Lee, JinHan Nam, Jeong-Woo Hwang, Jin-Hee Park, Yoo Joo Jeong, Ji-Yeong Jang, Su-Jeong Kim, A-Ran Jo, Hyang-Sook Hoe","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01092-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-024-01092-8","url":null,"abstract":"Dopamine plays important roles in cognitive function and inflammation and therefore is involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Drugs that increase or maintain dopamine levels in the brain could be a therapeutic strategy for AD. However, the effects of dopamine and its precursor levodopa (L-DOPA) on Aβ/tau pathology in vivo and the underlying molecular mechanisms have not been studied in detail. Here, we investigated whether L-DOPA treatment alters neuroinflammation, Aβ pathology, and tau phosphorylation in 5xFAD mice, a model of AD. We found that L-DOPA administration significantly reduced microgliosis and astrogliosis in 5xFAD mice. In addition, L-DOPA treatment significantly decreased Aβ plaque number by upregulating NEP and ADAM17 levels in 5xFAD mice. However, L-DOPA-treated 5xFAD mice did not exhibit changes in tau hyperphosphorylation or tau kinase levels. These data suggest that L-DOPA alleviates neuroinflammatory responses and Aβ pathology but not tau pathology in this mouse model of AD.","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140838987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peripheral-central network analysis of cancer cachexia status accompanied by the polarization of hypothalamic microglia with low expression of inhibitory immune checkpoint receptors","authors":"Yukari Suda, Keiko Nakamura, Fukiko Matsuyama, Yusuke Hamada, Hitoshi Makabe, Michiko Narita, Yasuyuki Nagumo, Tomohisa Mori, Naoko Kuzumaki, Minoru Narita","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01091-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-024-01091-9","url":null,"abstract":"While the excessive inflammation in cancer cachexia is well-known to be induced by the overproduction of inflammatory mediators in the periphery, microflora disruption and brain dysfunction are also considered to contribute to the induction of cancer cachexia. Hypothalamic microglia play a crucial role in brain inflammation and central-peripheral immune circuits via the production of inflammatory mediators. In the present study, we evaluated possible changes in excessive secretion of gut microbiota-derived endotoxin and the expression timeline of several inflammation-regulatory mediators and their inhibiting modulators in hypothalamic microglia of a mouse model of cancer cachexia following transplantation of pancreatic cancer cells. We demonstrated that the plasma level of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was significantly increased with an increase in anaerobic bacteria, especially Firmicutes, in the gut at the late stage of tumor-bearing mice that exhibited dramatic appetite loss, sarcopenia and severe peripheral immune suppression. At the early stage, in which tumor-bearing mice had not yet displayed “cachexia symptoms”, the mRNA expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines, but not of the neurodegenerative and severe inflammatory modulator lipocalin-2 (LCN2), was significantly increased, whereas at the late “cachexia stage”, the level of LCN2 mRNA was significantly increased along with significant decreases in levels of inhibitory immune checkpoint receptors programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1) and CD112R in hypothalamic microglia. In addition, a high density of activated neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus region and a significant increase in corticosterone secretion were found in cachexia model mice. Related to the cachexia state, released corticosterone was clearly increased in normal mice with specific activation of PVN neurons. A marked decrease in the natural killer cell population was also observed in the spleen of mice with robust activation of PVN neurons as well as mice with cancer cachexia. On the other hand, in vivo administration of LPS in normal mice induced hypothalamic microglia with low expression of inhibitory immune checkpoint receptors. These findings suggest that the induction of cancer cachexia may parallel exacerbation of the hypothalamic inflammatory status with polarization to microglia expressed with low levels of inhibitory immune checkpoint receptors following LPS release from the gut microflora.","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140811926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molecular BrainPub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01088-4
Benoit Coulombe, Thomas M. Durcan, Geneviève Bernard, Asmae Moursli, Christian Poitras, Denis Faubert, Maxime Pinard
{"title":"The 37TrillionCells initiative for improving global healthcare via cell-based interception and precision medicine: focus on neurodegenerative diseases","authors":"Benoit Coulombe, Thomas M. Durcan, Geneviève Bernard, Asmae Moursli, Christian Poitras, Denis Faubert, Maxime Pinard","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01088-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-024-01088-4","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main burdens in the treatment of diseases is imputable to the delay between the appearance of molecular dysfunctions in the first affected disease cells and their presence in sufficient number for detection in specific tissues or organs. This delay obviously plays in favor of disease progression to an extent that makes efficient treatments difficult, as they arrive too late. The development of a novel medical strategy, termed cell-based interception and precision medicine, seeks to identify dysfunctional cells early, when tissue damages are not apparent and symptoms not yet present, and develop therapies to treat diseases early. Central to this strategy is the use of single-cell technologies that allow detection of molecular changes in cells at the time of phenotypical bifurcation from health to disease. In this article we describe a general procedure to support such an approach applied to neurodegenerative disorders. This procedure combines four components directed towards highly complementary objectives: 1) a high-performance single-cell proteomics (SCP) method (Detect), 2) the development of disease experimental cell models and predictive computational models of cell trajectories (Understand), 3) the discovery of specific targets and personalized therapies (Cure), and 4) the creation of a community of collaborating laboratories to accelerate the development of this novel medical paradigm (Collaborate). A global initiative named 37TrillionCells (37TC) was launched to advance the development of cell-based interception and precision medicine.","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140602564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molecular BrainPub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01089-3
Yanis Inglebert, Pei You Wu, Julia Tourbina-Kolomiets, Cong Loc Dang, R. Anne McKinney
{"title":"Synaptopodin is required for long-term depression at Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses","authors":"Yanis Inglebert, Pei You Wu, Julia Tourbina-Kolomiets, Cong Loc Dang, R. Anne McKinney","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01089-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-024-01089-3","url":null,"abstract":"Synaptopodin (SP), an actin-associated protein found in telencephalic neurons, affects activity-dependant synaptic plasticity and dynamic changes of dendritic spines. While being required for long-term depression (LTD) mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR-LTD), little is known about its role in other forms of LTD induced by low frequency stimulation (LFS-LTD) or spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). Using electrophysiology in ex vivo hippocampal slices from SP-deficient mice (SPKO), we show that absence of SP is associated with a deficit of LTD at Sc-CA1 synapses induced by LFS-LTD and STDP. As LTD is known to require AMPA- receptors internalization and IP3-receptors calcium signaling, we tested by western blotting and immunochemistry if there were changes in their expression which we found to be reduced. While we were not able to induce LTD, long-term potentiation (LTP), albeit diminished in SPKO, can be recovered by using a stronger stimulation protocol. In SPKO we found no differences in NMDAR, which are the primary site of calcium signalling to induce LTP. Our study shows, for the first time, the key role of the requirement of SP to allow induction of activity-dependant LTD at Sc-CA1 synapses.","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molecular BrainPub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01087-5
Lin-Yu Li, Ayako Imai, Hironori Izumi, Ran Inoue, Yumie Koshidaka, Keizo Takao, Hisashi Mori, Tomoyuki Yoshida
{"title":"Differential contribution of canonical and noncanonical NLGN3 pathways to early social development and memory performance.","authors":"Lin-Yu Li, Ayako Imai, Hironori Izumi, Ran Inoue, Yumie Koshidaka, Keizo Takao, Hisashi Mori, Tomoyuki Yoshida","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01087-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13041-024-01087-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuroligin (NLGN) 3 is a postsynaptic cell adhesion protein organizing synapse formation through two different types of transsynaptic interactions, canonical interaction with neurexins (NRXNs) and a recently identified noncanonical interaction with protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) δ. Although, NLGN3 gene is known as a risk gene for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID), the pathogenic contribution of the canonical NLGN3-NRXN and noncanonical NLGN3-PTPδ pathways to these disorders remains elusive. In this study, we utilized Nlgn3 mutant mice selectively lacking the interaction with either NRXNs or PTPδ and investigated their social and memory performance. Neither Nlgn3 mutants showed any social cognitive deficiency in the social novelty recognition test. However, the Nlgn3 mutant mice lacking the PTPδ pathway exhibited significant decline in the social conditioned place preference (sCPP) at the juvenile stage, suggesting the involvement of the NLGN3-PTPδ pathway in the regulation of social motivation and reward. In terms of learning and memory, disrupting the canonical NRXN pathway attenuated contextual fear conditioning while disrupting the noncanonical NLGN3-PTPδ pathway enhanced it. Furthermore, disruption of the NLGN3-PTPδ pathway negatively affected the remote spatial reference memory in the Barnes maze test. These findings highlight the differential contributions of the canonical NLGN3-NRXN and noncanonical NLGN3-PTPδ synaptogenic pathways to the regulation of higher order brain functions associated with ASD and ID.</p>","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"17 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10935922/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140110679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molecular BrainPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01085-7
Maxinne Watchon, Amanda L Wright, Holly I Ahel, Katherine J Robinson, Stuart K Plenderleith, Andrea Kuriakose, Kristy C Yuan, Angela S Laird
{"title":"Spermidine treatment: induction of autophagy but also apoptosis?","authors":"Maxinne Watchon, Amanda L Wright, Holly I Ahel, Katherine J Robinson, Stuart K Plenderleith, Andrea Kuriakose, Kristy C Yuan, Angela S Laird","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01085-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13041-024-01085-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), also known as spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes loss of balance and motor co-ordination, eventually leading to paralysis. It is caused by the autosomal dominant inheritance of a long CAG trinucleotide repeat sequence within the ATXN3 gene, encoding for an expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat sequence within the ataxin-3 protein. Ataxin-3 containing an expanded polyQ repeat is known to be highly prone to intraneuronal aggregation, and previous studies have demonstrated that protein quality control pathways, such as autophagy, are impaired in MJD patients and animal models of the disease. In this study, we tested the therapeutic potential of spermidine on zebrafish and rodent models of MJD to determine its capacity to induce autophagy and improve functional output. Spermidine treatment of transgenic MJD zebrafish induced autophagy and resulted in increased distances swum by the MJD zebrafish. Interestingly, treatment of the CMVMJD135 mouse model of MJD with spermidine added to drinking water did not produce any improvement in motor behaviour assays, neurological testing or neuropathology. In fact, wild type mice treated with spermidine were found to have decreased rotarod performance when compared to control animals. Immunoblot analysis of protein lysates extracted from mouse cerebellar tissue found little differences between the groups, except for an increased level of phospho-ULK1 in spermidine treated animals, suggesting that autophagy was indeed induced. As we detected decreased motor performance in wild type mice following treatment with spermidine, we conducted follow up studies into the effects of spermidine treatment in zebrafish. Interestingly, we found that in addition to inducing autophagy, spermidine treatment also induced apoptosis, particularly in wild type zebrafish. These findings suggest that spermidine treatment may not be therapeutically beneficial for the treatment of MJD, and in fact warrants caution due to the potential negative side effects caused by induction of apoptosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"17 1","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10916058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140039815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mutant α-synuclein causes death of human cortical neurons via ERK1/2 and JNK activation.","authors":"Hidefumi Suzuki, Naohiro Egawa, Keiko Imamura, Takayuki Kondo, Takako Enami, Kayoko Tsukita, Mika Suga, Yuichiro Yada, Ran Shibukawa, Ryosuke Takahashi, Haruhisa Inoue","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01086-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13041-024-01086-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synucleinopathies refer to a group of disorders characterized by SNCA/α-synuclein (α-Syn)-containing cytoplasmic inclusions and neuronal cell loss in the nervous system including the cortex, a common feature being cognitive impairment. Still, the molecular pathogenesis of cognitive decline remains poorly understood, hampering the development of effective treatments. Here, we generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from familial Parkinson's disease (PD) patients carrying SNCA A53T mutation, differentiating them into cortical neurons by a direct conversion method. Patient iPSCs-derived cortical neurons harboring mutant α-Syn exhibited increased α-Syn-positive aggregates, shorter neurites, and time-dependent vulnerability. Furthermore, RNA-sequencing analysis, followed by biochemical validation, identified the activation of the ERK1/2 and JNK cascades in cortical neurons with SNCA A53T mutation. This result was consistent with a reverted phenotype of neuronal death in cortical neurons when treated with ERK1/2 and JNK inhibitors, respectively. Our findings emphasize the role of ERK1/2 and JNK cascades in the vulnerability of cortical neurons in synucleinopathies, and they could pave the way toward therapeutic advancements for synucleinopathies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"17 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10916047/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140039814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crucial role of TFAP2B in the nervous system for regulating NREM sleep.","authors":"Ayaka Nakai, Mitsuaki Kashiwagi, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Kanako Iwasaki, Arisa Hirano, Hiromasa Funato, Masashi Yanagisawa, Takeshi Sakurai, Yu Hayashi","doi":"10.1186/s13041-024-01084-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13041-024-01084-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The AP-2 transcription factors are crucial for regulating sleep in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. In mice, loss of function of the transcription factor AP-2β (TFAP2B) reduces non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. When and where TFAP2B functions, however, is unclear. Here, we used the Cre-loxP system to generate mice in which Tfap2b was specifically deleted in the nervous system during development and mice in which neuronal Tfap2b was specifically deleted postnatally. Both types of mice exhibited reduced NREM sleep, but the nervous system-specific deletion of Tfap2b resulted in more severe sleep phenotypes accompanied by defective light entrainment of the circadian clock and stereotypic jumping behavior. These findings indicate that TFAP2B in postnatal neurons functions at least partly in sleep regulation and imply that TFAP2B also functions either at earlier stages or in additional cell types within the nervous system.</p>","PeriodicalId":18851,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Brain","volume":"17 1","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10900699/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139983363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}