Epigenetic signatures of chronic social stress in stress-susceptible animals
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Exposure of mice to chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) produces depressive- and anxiety-like behaviors and widespread transcriptomic changes in several brain regions in susceptible animals. Here we present the first study of genome-wide cytosine methylation patterns of mice susceptible to CSDS using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing on DNA from the nucleus accumbens, a critical region for CSDS effects on behavior. We found extensive evidence for differential methylation following exposure to CSDS in susceptible animals, with a greater proportion of CG hypermethylation than hypomethylation in CSDS-susceptible mice compared to non-stressed controls; non-CG methylation shows the opposite trend. Several genes previously implicated in the effects of CSDS are among those with the greatest number of differentially methylated sites, including estrogen receptor alpha ( Esr1 ), the deleted in colorectal cancer ( Dcc ) gene and Cacna1c , which has been associated with a range of psychiatric conditions. Informatic analysis of DM sites revealed a gene network with ß-catenin as the hub gene of a network that included the ß-catenin-related WNT/frizzled signaling pathway as well as both Esr1 and Dcc . Finally, we found considerable overlap between DM genes associated with CSDS in susceptible animals and those associated with human neuroticism in a genome-wide association study. Analysis of these overlapping genes revealed ‘WNT signaling’ as the top pathway, which features ß-catenin as the primary hub gene. These findings reveal a striking convergence between the molecular pathways identified through either transcriptional or epigenomic analyses of the mouse model of susceptibility to chronic stress and the genomic architecture of increased stress susceptibility reflected in neuroticism in humans.
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Genes such as Est1, Cacna1c, and Dcc, associated with stress sensitivity and psychiatric disorders including MDD in humans, were significantly differentially methylated.
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- O’Toole, N., Zhang, T.-Y., Wen, X., Diorio, J., Silveira, P. P., Labonté, B., Nestler, E. J., & Meaney, M. J.
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