Role of the Astroglial Glutamate Exchanger xCT in Ventral Hippocampus in Resilience to Stress
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We demonstrate that stress differentially regulates glutamate homeostasis in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus and identify a role for the astroglial xCT in ventral dentate gyrus (vDG) in stress and antidepressant responses. We provide an RNA-seq roadmap for the stress-sensitive vDG. The transcription factor REST binds to xCT promoter in co-occupancy with the epigenetic marker H3K27ac to regulate expression of xCT, which is also reduced in a genetic mouse model of inherent susceptibility to depressive-like behavior. Pharmacologically, modulating histone acetylation with acetyl-L-carnitine (LAC) or acetyl-N-cysteine (NAC) rapidly increases xCT and activates a network with mGlu2 receptors to prime an enhanced glutamate homeostasis that promotes both pro-resilient and antidepressant-like responses. Pharmacological xCT blockage counteracts NAC prophylactic effects. GFAP+-Cre-dependent overexpression of xCT in vDG mimics pharmacological actions in promoting resilience. This work establishes a mechanism by which vDG protection leads to stress resilience and antidepressant responses via epigenetic programming of an xCT-mGlu2 network.
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- Authors
- Nasca, C., Bigio, B., Zelli, D., de Angelis, P., Lau, T., Okamoto, M., Soya, H., Ni, J., Brichta, L., Greengard, P., Neve, R. L., Lee, F. S., & McEwen, B. S.
- Affiliations
- Rockefeller University (US)
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Nasca, Carla
- McEwen, Bruce S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 96
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 402-413.e5
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2762868429
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 9.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- AFSP
- (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)
- HDRF (Hope for Depression Research Foundation; RGA# DTF Phase II (D))
- NIH (R01 MH41256)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Keywords
- astrocytes, ventral dentate gyrus, ventral hippocampus, stress resilience, antidepressant response, glutamate homeostasis, REST transcription factor, H3K27ac, histone acetylation, acetyl-L-carnitine, mGlu2 receptor, depression-like behavior, RNA-seq
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Astrocytes, Depression, Hippocampus, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Random Allocation, Stress, Psychological, Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate, Glutamic Acid, Amino Acid Transport System y+, Mice
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