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β-catenin mediates stress resilience through Dicer1/microRNA regulation

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Dias, Caroline, Feng, Jian, Sun, Haosheng, Shao, Ning yi, Mazei-Robison, Michelle S., Damez-Werno, Diane, Scobie, Kimberly, Bagot, Rosemary +15 more·2014·Nature

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β-catenin is a multi-functional protein that has an important role in the mature central nervous system; its dysfunction has been implicated in several neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression. Here we show that in mice β-catenin mediates pro-resilient and anxiolytic effects in the nucleus accumbens, a key brain reward region, an effect mediated by D2-type medium spiny neurons. Using genome-wide β-catenin enrichment mapping, we identify Dicer1-important in small RNA (for example, microRNA) biogenesis--as a β-catenin target gene that mediates resilience. Small RNA profiling after excising β-catenin from nucleus accumbens in the context of chronic stress reveals β-catenin-dependent microRNA regulation associated with resilience. Together, these findings establish β-catenin as a critical regulator in the development of behavioural resilience, activating a network that includes Dicer1 and downstream microRNAs. We thus present a foundation for the development of novel therapeutic targets to promote stress resilience.

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  • Knockout mice showed increased vulnerability to chronic stress, whereas overexpression in the NAc increased stress resilience.

    “knockout mice showed increased vulnerability to chronic stress, whereas an overexpression in the NAc increased stress resilience. 53”

    From Epigenetics and depression (2019) · cites this paper as [53]

    In “β-catenin in NAc mediates pro-resilient, antidepressant, and anxiolytic responses” (page unavailable), the paper reports that excising β-catenin from the NAc promoted stress susceptibility and that NAc overexpression promoted resilience. The knockout result, however, came from a sub-threshold defeat procedure, not a chronic-stress procedure as the claim specifies. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • NAc-selective β-catenin knockout mice showed increased vulnerability to chronic stress, whereas overexpression in the NAc increased stress resilience.

    “NAc-selective β-catenin knockout mice showed increased vulnerability to chronic stress, whereas an overexpression in the NAc increased stress resilience.”

    From Epigenetics and depression (2019) · cites this paper as [53]

  • β-catenin, one of the hub genes identified in the network, has previously been shown to modulate social stress.

    “β-catenin, one of the hub genes identified in the network, has previously been shown to modulate social stress.”

    From Epigenetics and depression (2019) · cites this paper as [53]

  • β-catenin expression in nucleus accumbens D2 medium spiny neurons increases resilience to chronic social defeat stress.

    “In fact, β-catenin expression in NAc D2-MSNs, but not D1-MSNs promotes resilience to CSDS (92).”
  • Post-transcriptional regulation of many mRNAs by β-catenin in D2 medium spiny neurons partly mediates outcomes to social stress.

    “This effect was specific to expression of a microRNA synthesis related protein Dicer1 downstream of β-catenin signaling, suggesting post-transcriptional regulation of a wide variety of mRNAs by β-catenin in D2-MSNs in part mediate outcomes to social stress.”

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Dias, C., Feng, J., Sun, H., Shao, N. Y., Mazei-Robison, M. S., Damez-Werno, D., Scobie, K., Bagot, R., LaBonté, B., Ribeiro, E., Liu, X., Kennedy, P., Vialou, V., Ferguson, D., Peña, C., Calipari, E. S., Koo, J. W., Mouzon, E., Ghose, S., Tamminga, C., Neve, R., Shen, L., & Nestler, E. J.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Inserm (FR)
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
  • Shen, Li
  • Nestler, Eric J.
Venue
Nature
Published
2014-11-12
Volume
516
Issue
7529
Pages
51-55
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2005027616
Cited by
240
References
51
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 1
FWCI
32.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH096890, R00MH094405)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › MicroRNA in disease regulation
Keywords
β-catenin, stress resilience, chronic stress, DICER1, microRNA, nucleus accumbens, depression, small RNA biogenesis, anxiolytic effects
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Physiological, Animals, Depression, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neurons, Stress, Physiological, Signal Transduction, Gene Expression Profiling, MicroRNAs, Ribonuclease III, beta Catenin, Mice, DEAD-box RNA Helicases, Genome-Wide Association Study, Resilience, Psychological

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