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Sex-Specific Role for the Long Non-coding RNA LINC00473 in Depression

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Issler, Orna, van der Zee, Yentl Y., Ramakrishnan, Aarthi, Wang, Junshi, Tan, Chunfeng, Loh, Yong-Hwee E., Purushothaman, Immanuel, Walker, Deena M. +18 more·2020·Neuron

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Depression is a common disorder that affects women at twice the rate of men. Here, we report that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a recently discovered class of regulatory transcripts, represent about one-third of the differentially expressed genes in the brains of depressed humans and display complex region- and sex-specific patterns of regulation. We identified the primate-specific, neuronal-enriched gene LINC00473 as downregulated in prefrontal cortex (PFC) of depressed females but not males. Using viral-mediated gene transfer to express LINC00473 in adult mouse PFC neurons, we mirrored the human sex-specific phenotype by inducing stress resilience solely in female mice. This sex-specific phenotype was accompanied by changes in synaptic function and gene expression selectively in female mice and, along with studies of human neuron-like cells in culture, implicates LINC00473 as a CREB effector. Together, our studies identify LINC00473 as a female-specific driver of stress resilience that is aberrant in female depression.

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  • Using whole-genome sequencing, a recent study found that lncRNAs accounted for 30% of the differences between patients with depression and control populations.

    “Using whole-genome sequencing, a recent study found that lncRNAs accounted for 30% of the differences between patients with depression and control populations.311”

    From Epigenetic regulation in major depression and other stress-related disorders: molecular mechanisms, clinical relevance and therapeutic potential (2023) · cites this paper as [311]

    The Results section reports that lncRNAs made up about 30% of genes differentially expressed between depressed and control subjects. It describes the method as whole-genome RNA sequencing of postmortem brain tissue, not whole-genome DNA sequencing; the 30% figure refers specifically to differentially expressed genes, not all differences between the groups. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Issler, O., van der Zee, Y. Y., Ramakrishnan, A., Wang, J., Tan, C., Loh, Y.-H. E., Purushothaman, I., Walker, D. M., Lorsch, Z. S., Hamilton, P. J., Peña, C. J., Flaherty, E., Hartley, B. J., Torres-Berrío, A., Parise, E. M., Kronman, H., Duffy, J. E., Estill, M. S., Calipari, E. S., Labonté, B., Neve, R. L., Tamminga, C. A., Brennand, K. J., Dong, Y., Shen, L., & Nestler, E. J.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Nestler, Eric J.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-06
Volume
106
Issue
6
Pages
912-926.e5
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3017236879
Cited by
156
References
105
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 8
FWCI
13.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Hope for Depression Research Foundation
  • National Institute of Mental Health
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
LINC00473, long non-coding RNA, depression, sex differences, stress resilience, prefrontal cortex, depression in women, CREB, synaptic function, neuronal gene expression
MeSH terms
RNA-Seq, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Female, Humans, Male, Mice, Transgenic, Middle Aged, Neurons, Sex Factors, Stress, Psychological, Down-Regulation, Prefrontal Cortex, Mice, Resilience, Psychological, Young Adult, RNA, Long Noncoding

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