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Circuit-wide Transcriptional Profiling Reveals Brain Region-Specific Gene Networks Regulating Depression Susceptibility

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Bagot, Rosemary C., Cates, Hannah M., Purushothaman, Immanuel, Lorsch, Zachary S., Walker, Deena M., Wang, Junshi, Huang, Xiaojie, Schlüter, Oliver M. +17 more·2016·Neuron

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Depression is a complex, heterogeneous disorder and a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. Most previous research has focused on individual brain regions and genes contributing to depression. However, emerging evidence in humans and animal models suggests that dysregulated circuit function and gene expression across multiple brain regions drive depressive phenotypes. Here, we performed RNA sequencing on four brain regions from control animals and those susceptible or resilient to chronic social defeat stress at multiple time points. We employed an integrative network biology approach to identify transcriptional networks and key driver genes that regulate susceptibility to depressive-like symptoms. Further, we validated in vivo several key drivers and their associated transcriptional networks that regulate depression susceptibility and confirmed their functional significance at the levels of gene transcription, synaptic regulation, and behavior. Our study reveals novel transcriptional networks that control stress susceptibility and offers fundamentally new leads for antidepressant drug discovery.

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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., Heller, E. A., Issler, O., Wang, M., Song, W.-M., Stein, J. L., Liu, X., Doyle, M. A., Scobie, K. N., Sun, H. S., Neve, R. L., Geschwind, D., Dong, Y., Shen, L., Zhang, B., & Nestler, E. J.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
  • Shen, Li
  • Zhang, Bin
  • Nestler, Eric J.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-06
Volume
90
Issue
5
Pages
969-983
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2353111961
Cited by
333
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 34 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 4
FWCI
25.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
  • MQ: Transforming Mental Health (MQ15FIP100011)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (U01AG046170)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH096890, R01MH051399)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA030379, T32DA007135, R01DA034856, R01DA040620, R37DA023206)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U01AI111598)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
depression, chronic social defeat stress, depression vulnerability, transcriptional regulatory networks, driver genes, stress resilience, synaptic regulation, antidepressant drug discovery, circuit function
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain, Depression, Hippocampus, Neural Pathways, Social Behavior, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mice, Gene Regulatory Networks, Transcriptome

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