Neuroepigenetic Editing
Open accessAbstract
Studies of the mammalian nervous system have revealed widespread epigenetic regulation underlying gene expression intrinsic to basic neurobiological function as well as neurological disease. Over the past decade, a critical role has emerged for the neural regulation of chromatin-modifying enzymes during both development and adulthood, and in response to external stimuli. These biochemical data are complemented by numerous next generation sequencing (NGS) studies that quantify the extent of chromatin and DNA modifications in neurons. Neuroepigenetic editing tools can be applied to distinguish between the mere presence and functional relevance of such modifications to neural transcription and animal behavior. This review discusses current advances in neuroepigenetic editing, highlighting methodological considerations pertinent to neuroscience, such as delivery methods and the spatiotemporal specificity of editing. Although neuroepigenetic editing is a nascent field, the studies presented in this review demonstrate the enormous potential of this approach for basic neurobiological research and therapeutic application.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Cell-type-specific expression of epigenetic modifiers (e.g., histone acetylation or methylation proteins) fused to dCas9 can be made inducible by Cre recombinase, which can be transgenically or virally co-expressed.
“The cell-type-specific expression of epigenetic modifiers (e.g., histone acetylation or methylation proteins) fused to dCas9 are then inducible by Cre recombinase, which can be transgenically or virally co-expressed [155, 156].”
From Cell-type-specific epigenetic effects of early life stress on the brain (2022) · cites this paper as [155]
Epigenetic editing with CRISPR/dCas9 can involve off-target effects.
“Epigenetic editing with CRISPR/dCas9 is not without its limitations, as it can involve off-target effects [155, 159].”
From Cell-type-specific epigenetic effects of early life stress on the brain (2022) · cites this paper as [155]
Determining whether epigenetic modifications at select loci are causal mechanisms of behavior may only be possible by altering target epigenetic modifications in vivo.
“Interpretational challenges also extend to determining whether epigenetic modifications at select loci are ‘causal’ mechanisms of behavior, which may only be possible by altering target epigenetic modifications in vivo [155–157].”
From Cell-type-specific epigenetic effects of early life stress on the brain (2022) · cites this paper as [155]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Cites
A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
Jinek, M., Chylinski, K., Fonfara, I., Hauer, M., Doudna, J. A., & Charpentier, E. (2012) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1225829 · Cited by 17,116 · see citing works
Jenuwein, T., & Allis, C. D. (2001) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1063127 · Cited by 9,756 · see citing works
Chen, X., Xiu, M., Xing, J., Yu, S., Min, D., & Guo, F. (2017) · Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry · doi:10.1159/000479439 · Cited by 5,759 · see citing works
Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided Platform for Sequence-Specific Control of Gene Expression
Qi, L. S., Larson, M. H., Gilbert, L. A., Doudna, J. A., Weissman, J. S., Arkin, A. P., & Lim, W. A. (2013) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.022 · Cited by 5,016 · see citing works
CRISPR-Mediated Modular RNA-Guided Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes
Gilbert, L. A., Larson, M. H., Morsut, L., Liu, Z., Brar, G. A., Torres, S. E., Stern-Ginossar, N., Brandman, O., Whitehead, E. H., Doudna, J. A., et al. (2013) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.06.044 · Cited by 3,696 · see citing works
Breaking the Code of DNA Binding Specificity of TAL-Type III Effectors
Boch, J., Scholze, H., Schornack, S., Landgraf, A., Hahn, S., Kay, S., Lahaye, T., Nickstadt, A., & Bonas, U. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1178811 · Cited by 2,707 · see citing works
The Nuclear DNA Base 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Is Present in Purkinje Neurons and the Brain
Kriaucionis, S., & Heintz, N. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1169786 · Cited by 2,700 · see citing works
In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9
Ran, F. A., Cong, L., Yan, W. X., Scott, D. A., Gootenberg, J. S., Kriz, A. J., Zetsche, B., Shalem, O., Wu, X., Makarova, K. S., et al. (2015) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature14299 · Cited by 2,687 · see citing works
Widespread transcription at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers
Kim, T.-K., Hemberg, M., Gray, J. M., Costa, A. M., Bear, D. M., Wu, J., Harmin, D. A., Laptewicz, M., Barbara-Haley, K., Kuersten, S., et al. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature09033 · Cited by 2,450 · see citing works
CRISPR-Cas9 Knockin Mice for Genome Editing and Cancer Modeling
Platt, R. J., Chen, S., Zhou, Y., Yim, M. J., Swiech, L., Kempton, H. R., Dahlman, J. E., Parnas, O., Eisenhaure, T. M., Jovanovic, M., et al. (2014) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.014 · Cited by 2,001 · see citing works
Hilton, I. B., D’Ippolito, A. M., Vockley, C. M., Thakore, P. I., Crawford, G. E., Reddy, T. E., & Gersbach, C. A. (2015) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/nbt.3199 · Cited by 1,879 · see citing works
Highly efficient Cas9-mediated transcriptional programming
Chavez, A., Scheiman, J., Vora, S., Pruitt, B. W., Tuttle, M., P R Iyer, E., Lin, S., Kiani, S., Guzman, C. D., Wiegand, D. J., et al. (2015) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.3312 · Cited by 1,622 · see citing works
A Protein-Tagging System for Signal Amplification in Gene Expression and Fluorescence Imaging
Tanenbaum, M. E., Gilbert, L. A., Qi, L. S., Weissman, J. S., & Vale, R. D. (2014) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.039 · Cited by 1,559 · see citing works
RNA-guided gene activation by CRISPR-Cas9-based transcription factors
Perez-Pinera, P., Kocak, D. D., Vockley, C. M., Adler, A. F., Kabadi, A. M., Polstein, L. R., Thakore, P. I., Glass, K. A., Ousterout, D. G., Leong, K. W., et al. (2013) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.2600 · Cited by 1,328 · see citing works
Editing DNA Methylation in the Mammalian Genome
Liu, X. S., Wu, H., Ji, X., Stelzer, Y., Wu, X., Czauderna, S., Shu, J., Dadon, D., Young, R. A., & Jaenisch, R. (2016) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.056 · Cited by 1,224 · see citing works
Cas9 as a versatile tool for engineering biology
Mali, P., Esvelt, K. M., & Church, G. M. (2013) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.2649 · Cited by 1,197 · see citing works
Thakore, P. I., D'Ippolito, A. M., Song, L., Safi, A., Shivakumar, N. K., Kabadi, A. M., Reddy, T. E., Crawford, G. E., & Gersbach, C. A. (2015) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.3630 · Cited by 1,012 · see citing works
Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of addiction
Robison, A. J., & Nestler, E. J. (2011) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn3111 · Cited by 993 · see citing works
Self-citationMeCP2 binds to 5hmC enriched within active genes and accessible chromatin in the nervous system
Mellén, M., Ayata, P., Dewell, S., Kriaucionis, S., & Heintz, N. (2012) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.11.022 · Cited by 943 · see citing works
Engineering complex synthetic transcriptional programs with CRISPR RNA scaffolds
Zalatan, J. G., Lee, M. E., Almeida, R., Gilbert, L. A., Whitehead, E. H., La Russa, M., Tsai, J. C., Weissman, J. S., Dueber, J. E., Qi, L. S., et al. (2015) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.11.052 · Cited by 938 · see citing works
Optical control of mammalian endogenous transcription and epigenetic states
Konermann, S., Brigham, M. D., Trevino, A. E., Hsu, P. D., Heidenreich, M., Cong, L., Platt, R. J., Scott, D. A., Church, G. M., & Zhang, F. (2013) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature12466 · Cited by 803 · see citing works
In vivo interrogation of gene function in the mammalian brain using CRISPR-Cas9
Swiech, L., Heidenreich, M., Banerjee, A., Habib, N., Li, Y., Trombetta, J., Sur, M., & Zhang, F. (2015) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/nbt.3055 · Cited by 772 · see citing works
A split-Cas9 architecture for inducible genome editing and transcription modulation
Zetsche, B., Volz, S. E., & Zhang, F. (2015) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/nbt.3149 · Cited by 704 · see citing works
Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism
Parikshak, N. N., Swarup, V., Belgard, T. G., Irimia, M., Ramaswami, G., Gandal, M. J., Hartl, C., Leppa, V., Ubieta, L. D. L. T., Huang, J., et al. (2016) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature20612 · Cited by 685 · see citing works
Histone acetylation: molecular mnemonics on the chromatin
Gräff, J., & Tsai, L.-H. (2013) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn3427 · Cited by 680 · see citing works
Greer, P. L., & Greenberg, M. E. (2008) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.09.002 · Cited by 661 · see citing works
Functional annotation of native enhancers with a Cas9–histone demethylase fusion
Kearns, N. A., Pham, H., Tabak, B., Genga, R. M., Silverstein, N. J., Garber, M., & Maehr, R. (2015) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.3325 · Cited by 656 · see citing works
A light-inducible CRISPR-Cas9 system for control of endogenous gene activation
Polstein, L. R., & Gersbach, C. A. (2015) · Nature Chemical Biology · doi:10.1038/nchembio.1753 · Cited by 630 · see citing works
A transcription activator-like effector toolbox for genome engineering
Sanjana, N. E., Cong, L., Zhou, Y., Cunniff, M. M., Feng, G., & Zhang, F. (2012) · Nature Protocols · doi:10.1038/nprot.2011.431 · Cited by 628 · see citing works
Parkinson-associated risk variant in distal enhancer of α-synuclein modulates target gene expression
Soldner, F., Stelzer, Y., Shivalila, C., Abraham, B. J., Latourelle, J. C., Barrasa, M. I., Goldmann, J. E., Myers, R. H., Young, R. A., & Jaenisch, R. (2016) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature17939 · Cited by 496 · see citing works
Effects of chronic exposure to cocaine are regulated by the neuronal protein Cdk5
Bibb, J. A., Chen, J., Taylor, J. R., Svenningsson, P., Nishi, A., Snyder, G. L., Yan, Z., Sagawa, Z. K., Ouimet, C. C., Nairn, A. C., et al. (2001) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35066591 · Cited by 480 · see citing works
Self-citationRevealing off-target cleavage specificities of zinc-finger nucleases by in vitro selection
Pattanayak, V., Ramirez, C. L., Joung, J. K., & Liu, D. R. (2011) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.1670 · Cited by 453 · see citing works
Editing the epigenome: technologies for programmable transcription and epigenetic modulation
Thakore, P. I., Black, J. B., Hilton, I. B., & Gersbach, C. A. (2016) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.3733 · Cited by 451 · see citing works
Epigenetic mechanisms in neurological disease
Jakovcevski, M., & Akbarian, S. (2012) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm.2828 · Cited by 450 · see citing works
Tet1 Is Critical for Neuronal Activity-Regulated Gene Expression and Memory Extinction
Rudenko, A., Dawlaty, M. M., Seo, J., Cheng, A. W., Meng, J., Le, T. T., Faull, K. F., Jaenisch, R., & Tsai, L. (2013) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.08.003 · Cited by 435 · see citing works
Kaas, G. A., Zhong, C., Eason, D. E., Ross, D. L., Vachhani, R., Ming, G., King, J. R., Song, H., & Sweatt, J. D. (2013) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.08.032 · Cited by 411 · see citing works
HDAC3-selective inhibitor enhances extinction of cocaine-seeking behavior in a persistent manner
Malvaez, M., McQuown, S. C., Rogge, G. A., Astarabadi, M., Jacques, V., Carreiro, S. T., Rusche, J. R., & Wood, M. A. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1213364110 · Cited by 400 · see citing works
A versatile system for rapid multiplex genome-edited CAR T cell generation
Ren, J., Zhang, X., Liu, X., Fang, C., Jiang, S., June, C. H., & Zhao, Y. (2017) · Oncotarget · doi:10.18632/oncotarget.15218 · Cited by 395 · see citing works
Transcriptional mechanisms of addiction: role of ΔFosB
Nestler, E. J. (2008) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0067 · Cited by 392 · see citing works
Self-citationHuman-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2
Konopka, G., Bomar, J. M., Winden, K., Coppola, G., Jonsson, Z. O., Gao, F., Peng, S., Preuss, T. M., Wohlschlegel, J. A., & Geschwind, D. H. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08549 · Cited by 390 · see citing works
Target specificity of the CRISPR‐Cas9 system
Wu, X., Kriz, A. J., & Sharp, P. A. (2014) · Quantitative Biology · doi:10.1007/s40484-014-0030-x · Cited by 373 · see citing works
Locus-specific editing of histone modifications at endogenous enhancers
Mendenhall, E. M., Williamson, K. E., Reyon, D., Zou, J., Ram, O., Joung, J. K., & Bernstein, B. (2013) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/nbt.2701 · Cited by 362 · see citing works
Staahl, B. T., Benekareddy, M., Coulon-Bainier, C., Banfal, A. A., Floor, S. N., Sabo, J. K., Urnes, C., Munares, G. A., Ghosh, A., & Doudna, J. A. (2017) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/nbt.3806 · Cited by 355 · see citing works
Cong, L., Zhou, R., Kuo, Y.-C., Cunniff, M. M., & Zhang, F. (2012) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms1962 · Cited by 338 · see citing works
Bagot, R. C., Cates, H. M., Purushothaman, I., Lorsch, Z. S., Walker, D. M., Wang, J., Huang, X., Schlüter, O. M., Maze, I., Peña, C. J., et al. (2016) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.015 · Cited by 333 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Emerging Field of Neuroepigenetics
Sweatt, J. D. (2013) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.10.023 · Cited by 324 · see citing works
CRISPR-Cas9-based Photoactivatable Transcription System
Nihongaki, Y., Yamamoto, S., Kawano, F., Suzuki, H., & Sato, M. (2015) · Chemistry & Biology · doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.12.011 · Cited by 322 · see citing works
Experience-Dependent Epigenetic Modifications in the Central Nervous System
Sweatt, J. D. (2008) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.09.002 · Cited by 302 · see citing works
Stimulus-specific combinatorial functionality of neuronal c-fos enhancers
Joo, J.-Y., Schaukowitch, K., Farbiak, L., Kilaru, G., & Kim, T.-K. (2016) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.4170 · Cited by 271 · see citing works
Gene-Specific Targeting of H3K9 Methylation Is Sufficient for Initiating Repression In Vivo
Snowden, A. W., Gregory, P. D., Case, C. C., & Pabo, C. O. (2002) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(02)01391-x · Cited by 268 · see citing works
Drug discovery with engineered zinc-finger proteins
Jamieson, A., Miller, J. C., & Pabo, C. (2003) · Nature reviews. Drug discovery · doi:10.1038/nrd1087 · Cited by 263 · see citing works
Wang, P., Mokhtari, R., Pedrosa, E., Kirschenbaum, M. A., Bayrak, C., Zheng, D., & Lachman, H. M. (2017) · Molecular Autism · doi:10.1186/s13229-017-0124-1 · Cited by 255 · see citing works
Lobo, M. K., Zaman, S., Damez-Werno, D. M., Koo, J. W., Bagot, R. C., DiNieri, J. A., Nugent, A., Finkel, E., Chaudhury, D., Chandra, R., et al. (2013) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1875-13.2013 · Cited by 245 · see citing works
Self-citationChd8 Mutation Leads to Autistic-like Behaviors and Impaired Striatal Circuits
Platt, R. J., Zhou, Y., Slaymaker, I. M., Shetty, A. S., Weisbach, N. R., Kim, J.-A., Sharma, J., Desai, M., Sood, S., Kempton, H. R., et al. (2017) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.052 · Cited by 240 · see citing works
Neuronal activity modifies the chromatin accessibility landscape in the adult brain
Su, Y., Shin, J., Zhong, C., Wang, S. Z., Roychowdhury, P., Lim, J., Kim, D. S., Ming, G., & Song, H. (2017) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.4494 · Cited by 234 · see citing works
Gelernter, J. E., Kranzler, H. R., Sherva, R., Koesterer, R., Almasy, L. A., Zhao, H., & Farrer, L. A. (2013) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.08.034 · Cited by 230 · see citing works
Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors
Heller, E. A., Cates, H. M., Peña, C. J., Sun, H., Shao, N., Feng, J., Golden, S. A., Herman, J. P., Walsh, J. J., Mazei-Robison, M., et al. (2014) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.3871 · Cited by 227 · see citing works
Self-citationEpigenetic reprogramming of cancer cells via targeted DNA methylation
Rivenbark, A. G., Stolzenburg, S., Beltrán, A. S., Yuan, X., Rots, M. G., Strahl, B. D., & Blancafort, P. (2012) · Epigenetics · doi:10.4161/epi.19507 · Cited by 223 · see citing works
Maeder, M. L., Thibodeau-Beganny, S., Sander, J. D., Voytas, D. F., & Joung, J. K. (2009) · Nature Protocols · doi:10.1038/nprot.2009.98 · Cited by 207 · see citing works
Synthetic zinc finger repressors reduce mutant huntingtin expression in the brain of R6/2 mice
Garriga-Canut, M., Agustín‐Pavón, C., Herrmann, F., Sánchez, A., Dierssen, M., Fillat, C., & Isalan, M. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1206506109 · Cited by 196 · see citing works
Gao, X., Tsang, J. C. H., Gaba, F., Wu, D., Lu, L., & Liu, P. (2014) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gku836 · Cited by 194 · see citing works
Watson, C. T., Szutorisz, H., Garg, P., Martin, Q., Landry, J. A., Sharp, A. J., & Hurd, Y. L. (2015) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/npp.2015.155 · Cited by 184 · see citing works
Polstein, L. R., & Gersbach, C. (2012) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja3065667 · Cited by 182 · see citing works
Synthetic Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Action at an Endogenous Chromosomal Site
Zhang, L., Spratt, S. K., Liu, Q., Johnstone, B. H., Qi, H., Raschke, E. E., Jamieson, A. C., Rebar, E. J., Wolffe, A. P., & Case, C. C. (2000) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m005341200 · Cited by 180 · see citing works
de Groote, M. L., Verschure, P. J., & Rots, M. G. (2012) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gks863 · Cited by 180 · see citing works
Role of Tet1 and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in cocaine action
Feng, J., Shao, N., Szulwach, K. E., Vialou, V., Huynh, J. L., Zhong, C., Le, T. T., Ferguson, D., Cahill, M. E., Li, Y., et al. (2015) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.3976 · Cited by 175 · see citing works
Self-citationRegulation of chromatin accessibility and Zic binding at enhancers in the developing cerebellum
Frank, C. L., Liu, F., Wijayatunge, R., Song, L., Biegler, M. T., Yang, M. G., Vockley, C. M., Safi, A., Gersbach, C. A., Crawford, G. E., et al. (2015) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.3995 · Cited by 167 · see citing works
Kwon, I., & Schaffer, D. V. (2007) · Pharmaceutical Research · doi:10.1007/s11095-007-9431-0 · Cited by 164 · see citing works
Zinc-finger protein-targeted gene regulation: Genomewide single-gene specificity
Tan, S., Guschin, D. Y., Davalos, A. R., Lee, Y.-L., Snowden, A. W., Jouvenot, Y., Zhang, H. S., Howes, K., McNamara, A. R., Lai, A., et al. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2035056100 · Cited by 153 · see citing works
NR4A nuclear receptors support memory enhancement by histone deacetylase inhibitors
Hawk, J. D., Bookout, A. L., Poplawski, S. G., Bridi, M. S., Rao, A. J., Sulewski, M. E., Kroener, B., Manglesdorf, D. J., & Abel, T. G. (2012) · Journal of Clinical Investigation · doi:10.1172/jci64145 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
Use of Herpes Virus Amplicon Vectors to Study Brain Disorders
Neve, R. L., Neve, K. A., Nestler, E. J., & Carlezon, W. A. (2005) · BioTechniques · doi:10.2144/05393ps01 · Cited by 144 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Role of Epigenetic Mechanisms in the Regulation of Gene Expression in the Nervous System
Cholewa-Waclaw, J., Bird, A. P., von Schimmelmann, M. J., Schaefer, A., Yu, H., Song, H., Madabhushi, R., & Tsai, L. (2016) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2492-16.2016 · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Using Targeted Chromatin Regulators to Engineer Combinatorial and Spatial Transcriptional Regulation
Keung, A. J., Bashor, C. J., Kiriakov, S., Collins, J. J., & Khalil, A. S. (2014) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.04.047 · Cited by 127 · see citing works
Chromatin as an expansive canvas for chemical biology
Fierz, B., & Muir, T. W. (2012) · Nature Chemical Biology · doi:10.1038/nchembio.938 · Cited by 121 · see citing works
Efficient, Complete Deletion of Synaptic Proteins using CRISPR
Incontro, S., Asensio, C. S., Edwards, R. H., & Nicoll, R. A. (2014) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.07.043 · Cited by 115 · see citing works
Hamilton, P. J., Burek, D. J., Lombroso, S. I., Neve, R. L., Robison, A. J., Nestler, E. J., & Heller, E. A. (2018) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/npp.2017.88 · Cited by 113 · see citing works
Self-citationHeller, E. A., Hamilton, P. J., Burek, D. D., Lombroso, S. I., Peña, C. J., Neve, R. L., & Nestler, E. J. (2016) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0013-16.2016 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
Self-citationEpigenetic modifications in the nervous system and their impact upon cognitive impairments
Rudenko, A., & Tsai, L. (2014) · Neuropharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2014.01.043 · Cited by 108 · see citing works
Analytical tools and current challenges in the modern era of neuroepigenomics
Maze, I., Shen, L., Zhang, B., Garcia, B. A., Shao, N., Mitchell, A., Sun, H., Akbarian, S., Allis, C. D., & Nestler, E. J. (2014) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.3816 · Cited by 100 · see citing works
Self-citationRegulation of chromatin states by drugs of abuse
Walker, D. M., Cates, H. M., Heller, E. A., & Nestler, E. J. (2014) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2014.11.002 · Cited by 100 · see citing works
Self-citationStolzenburg, S., Beltrán, A. S., Swift‐Scanlan, T., Rivenbark, A. G., Rashwan, R., & Blancafort, P. (2015) · Oncogene · doi:10.1038/onc.2014.470 · Cited by 94 · see citing works
Targeted epigenome editing of an endogenous locus with chromatin modifiers is not stably maintained
Kungulovski, G., Nunna, S., Thomas, M., Zanger, U. M., Reinhardt, R., & Jeltsch, A. (2015) · Epigenetics & Chromatin · doi:10.1186/s13072-015-0002-z · Cited by 92 · see citing works
ACF chromatin-remodeling complex mediates stress-induced depressive-like behavior
Sun, H., Damez-Werno, D. M., Scobie, K. N., Shao, N.-Y., Dias, C., Rabkin, J., Koo, J. W., Korb, E., Bagot, R. C., Ahn, F. H., et al. (2015) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm.3939 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
Self-citationMitchell, A., Javidfar, B., Pothula, V., Ibi, D., Shen, E., Peter, C. J., Bicks, L. K., Fehr, T., Jiang, Y. P., Brennand, K., et al. (2017) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/mp.2016.254 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
Herpes simplex virus-mediated gene transfer as a tool for neuropsychiatric research
Carlezon, Jr., Nestler, E. J., & Neve, R. L. (2000) · Critical Reviews™ in Neurobiology · doi:10.1615/critrevneurobiol.v14.i1.30 · Cited by 90 · see citing works
Self-citationTaylor, J. R., Lynch, W. J., Sanchez, H., Olausson, P., Nestler, E. J., & Bibb, J. A. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0610288104 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Self-citationBailus, B. J., Pyles, B., McAlister, M., O’Geen, H., Lockwood, S. H., Adams, A. N., Nguyen, J. T., Yu, A. S., Berman, R. F., & Segal, D. J. (2016) · Molecular Therapy · doi:10.1038/mt.2015.236 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
“The free market” and the Asian crisis
Jones, G. (2000) · Critical Review · doi:10.1080/08913810008443546 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Kolli, N., Lü, M., Maiti, P., Rossignol, J., & Dunbar, G. L. (2017) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms18040754 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
An improved predictive recognition model for Cys2-His2 zinc finger proteins
Gupta, A., Christensen, R. G., Bell, H. A., Goodwin, M. J., Patel, R. Y., Pandey, M., Enuameh, M. S., Rayla, A. L., Zhu, C., Thibodeau-Beganny, S., et al. (2014) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gku132 · Cited by 73 · see citing works
Laganière, J., Kells, A. P., Lai, J. T., Guschin, D. Y., Paschon, D. E., Meng, X., Fong, L. K., Yu, Q., Rebar, E. J., Gregory, P. D., et al. (2010) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2440-10.2010 · Cited by 72 · see citing works
Hall, F. S., Drgonová, J., Jain, S., & Uhl, G. R. (2013) · Pharmacology & Therapeutics · doi:10.1016/j.pharmthera.2013.07.006 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Snowden, A. W., Zhang, L., Urnov, F. D., Dent, C. L., Jouvenot, Y., Zhong, X., Rebar, E. J., Jamieson, A. C., Zhang, H. S., Tan, S., et al. (2003) · PubMed · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Opportunities for the Use of Lentiviral Vectors in Human Gene Therapy
Galimi, F., & Verma, I. M. (2002) · Current topics in microbiology and immunology · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-56114-6_13 · Cited by 70 · see citing works
Grimmer, M., Stolzenburg, S., Ford, E., Lister, R., Blancafort, P., & Farnham, P. (2014) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gku708 · Cited by 66 · see citing works
Meyer, D. A., Richer, E., Benkovic, S. A., Hayashi, K., Kansy, J. W., Hale, C. F., Moy, L. Y., Kim, Y. D., O'Callaghan, J. P., Tsai, L., et al. (2008) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0806078105 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Smith, A., Hurd, P. J., Bannister, A. J., Kouzarides, T., & Ford, K. G. (2008) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m710393200 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
Methylation, memory and addiction
Bali, P., Im, H., & Kenny, P. J. (2011) · Epigenetics · doi:10.4161/epi.6.6.15905 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
Chapdelaine, P., Coulombe, Z., Chikh, A., Gérard, C., & Tremblay, J. P. (2013) · Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids · doi:10.1038/mtna.2013.41 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
Sharma, S., Gerke, D. S., Han, H. F., Jeong, S., Stallcup, M. R., Jones, P. A., & Liang, G. (2012) · Epigenetics & Chromatin · doi:10.1186/1756-8935-5-3 · Cited by 23 · see citing works
A unifying model of epigenetic regulation
Keung, A. J., & Khalil, A. S. (2016) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aaf1647 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
Virally mediated gene manipulation in the adult CNS
Edry, E., Lamprecht, R., Wagner, S., & Rosenblum, K. (2011) · Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnmol.2011.00057 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Epigenetics and the Environmental Regulation of the Genome and Its Function
Meaney, M. J. (2012) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755059.003.0006 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Carone, B. R., & Rando, O. J. (2012) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.008 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Designer TALEs team up for highly efficient gene induction
Richter, A., & Boch, J. (2013) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.2373 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Global changes in patterning, splicing and primate specific lncRNAs in autism brainPreprint
Parikshak, N., Swarup, V., Belgard, T. G., Gandal, M. J., Irimia, M., Leppä, V., Lowe, J. K., Johnson, R., Blencowe, B. J., Horvath, S., et al. (2016) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/077057 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Exploring the epigenetics of cocaine resistance
Hope, B. T., Skinner, M. K., Kenny, P. J., & Akbarian, S. (2013) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm.3091 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Opioid Addiction
Browne, C. J., Godino, A., Salery, M., & Nestler, E. J. (2019) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.06.027 · Cited by 227 · see citing works
Self-citationHamilton, P. J., & Nestler, E. J. (2019) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2019.05.005 · Cited by 137 · see citing works
Self-citationKey transcription factors mediating cocaine-induced plasticity in the nucleus accumbens
Teague, C. D., & Nestler, E. J. (2021) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41380-021-01163-5 · Cited by 80 · see citing works
Self-citationEpigenetic mechanisms underlying sex differences in the brain and behavior
Kundaković, M., & Tickerhoof, M. C. (2023) · Trends in Neurosciences · doi:10.1016/j.tins.2023.09.007 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Cell-type-specific epigenetic effects of early life stress on the brain
Rahman, M. F., & McGowan, P. O. (2022) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-022-02076-9 · Cited by 75 · see citing works
In vivo locus-specific editing of the neuroepigenome
Yim, Y. Y., Teague, C. D., & Nestler, E. J. (2020) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/s41583-020-0334-y · Cited by 76 · see citing works
Self-citationA long noncoding eRNA forms R-loops to shape emotional experience–induced behavioral adaptation
Akiki, R. M., Cornbrooks, R. G., Magami, K., Greige, A., Snyder, K. K., Wood, D. J., Herrington, C. M., Mace, P., Blidy, K., Koike, N., et al. (2024) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.adp1562 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
Epigenetic Priming in Drug AddictionPreprint
Mews, P., Walker, D. M., & Nestler, E. J. (2018) · Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology · doi:10.1101/sqb.2018.83.037663 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
Self-citationHamilton, A. R., Traniello, I. M., Ray, A. M., Caldwell, A. S., Wickline, S. A., & Robinson, G. E. (2019) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.200196 · Cited by 37 · see citing works
An emerging perspective on ‘histone code’ mediated regulation of neural plasticity and disease
Farrelly, L. A., & Maze, I. S. (2019) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2019.07.001 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
The past and presence of gene targeting: from chemicals and DNA via proteins to RNA
Geel, T. M., Ruiters, M. H. J., Cool, R. H., Halby, L., Voshart, D. C., Ruiz, L. A., Niezen‐Koning, K. E., Arimondo, P. B., & Rots, M. G. (2018) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0077 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Early Life Stress- and Drug-Induced Histone Modifications Within the Ventral Tegmental Area
Shepard, R. D., & Nugent, F. S. (2020) · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · doi:10.3389/fcell.2020.588476 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
Teague, C. D., Picone, J. A., Wright, W. J., Browne, C. J., Silva, G. M., Futamura, R., Minier-Toribio, A. M., Estill, M. S., Ramakrishnan, A., Martínez-Rivera, F. J., et al. (2022) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.07.022 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Self-citationCrossroads of Drug Abuse and HIV Infection: Neurotoxicity and CNS Reservoir
Sonti, S., Tyagi, K., Pande, A., Daniel, R., Sharma, A. L., & Tyagi, M. (2022) · Vaccines · doi:10.3390/vaccines10020202 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
From cellular to fear memory: An epigenetic toolbox to remember
Coda, D. M., & Gräff, J. (2023) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2023.102829 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Recent advances in neuroepigenetic editing
Xu, S., & Heller, E. A. (2019) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2019.03.010 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
Self-citationExamining the contribution of histone modification to sex differences in learning and memoryPreprint
Keiser, A. A., & Wood, M. A. (2019) · Learning & Memory · doi:10.1101/lm.048850.118 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
Nohesara, S., Abdolmaleky, H. M., & Thiagalingam, S. (2024) · Brain Sciences · doi:10.3390/brainsci14080769 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Kawiková, I., Špička, V., Lai, J. C. K., Askenase, P. W., Li, W., Kejík, Z., Jakubek, M., Valeš, K., & Španiel, F. (2025) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2025.1454306 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Picone, J. A., Hassan, A., Kim, R. K., Lira, D. P., Silva, G. M., Truby, N. L., Johnson, H. A., Teague, C. D., Neve, R. L., Banks, M. L., et al. (2024) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02852-7 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Self-citationThe “systems approach” to treating the brain: opportunities in developmental psychopharmacology
Bussone, S., & Iacono, L. L. (2019) · Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience · doi:10.31887/dcns.2019.21.2/lloiacono · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Writing the Engram: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Allocation
Tarulli, I., Toscano-Rivalta, R., Watt, L., & Gräff, J. (2025) · Journal of Neurochemistry · doi:10.1111/jnc.70328 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Lorsch, Z. S., Hamilton, P. J., Ramakrishnan, A., Parise, E. M., Wright, W. J., Salery, M., Lepack, A. E., Mews, P., Issler, O., McKenzie, A. T., et al. (2018) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/403733 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Self-citationAkyürek, E., Uysal, B., Gülden, G., & Taştan, C. (2021) · Gene Editing · doi:10.29228/genediting.54941 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Rahman, M. M., Hossain, M. A., Rifat, K., Maeesa, S. K., Rahman, A. M. A. S., Mim, M. A., Sultana, N., Sobuj, D. R., Tamanna, I. J., Islam, M. R., et al. (2024) · Applied Chemical Engineering · doi:10.24294/ace.v7i1.2140 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Derepression of transposable elements in the mouse prefrontal cortex disrupts social behavior
Kim, R. K., Smith, C. A., Truby, N. L., Strandberg, S. R., Bell, J. L., Carwile, N., Silva, G. M., Neve, R. L., Aung, T., Cui, X., et al. (2025) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2510663122 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Self-citationShepard, R. D., & Nugent, F. S. (2022) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-91909-8.00040-2 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Blum, K., Levin, C. B., Sharafshah, A., & Lewandowski, K.-U. (2026) · Handbook of clinical neurology · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-19043-8.00031-1
- Authors
- Hamilton, P. J., Lim, C. J., Nestler, E. J., & Heller, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Heller, Elizabeth A.
- Venue
- Methods in Molecular Biology
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 1767
- Pages
- 113-136
- ISSN
- 1064-3745 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-6029
- PMC
- PMC6047758
- OpenAlex
- W4211199978
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 107
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 4.70
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Methods in molecular biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH096890, R01MH051399)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R37DA007359, R01DA007359, R01DA040621)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA regulation and disease
- Keywords
- chromatin-modifying enzymes, epigenetic regulation, neurons, chromatin modification, DNA modification, gene expression regulation, gene delivery methods, neurological disorders, animal behavior
- MeSH terms
- Gene Editing, Animals, Mental Disorders, Chromatin, DNA, Humans, Nervous System Diseases, Neurons, Epigenesis, Genetic, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review