1  2372 91 EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF THE IL-13-INDUCED HUMAN EOTAXIN-3 GENE BY CREB-BINDING PROTEIN-MEDIATED HISTONE 3 ACETYLATION. THE ETIOLOGY OF A VARIETY OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO THE INTERACTION OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS. HEREIN, WE IDENTIFIED A LINK BETWEEN EPIGENETIC REGULATION AND IL-13-DRIVEN EOTAXIN-3 IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CHRONIC ALLERGIC INFLAMMATION. WE FIRST DEMONSTRATED THAT THE CAMP-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT (CRE) SITE IN THE EOTAXIN-3 PROMOTER AFFECTS IL-13-INDUCED EOTAXIN-3 PROMOTER ACTIVITY. FURTHERMORE, THE CRE-BINDING PROTEIN-BINDING PROTEIN (CBP), A HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE, INDUCED BASE-LINE AND IL-13-INDUCED EOTAXIN-3 PROMOTER ACTIVITY. ADDITIONALLY, IL-13 TREATMENT PROMOTED GLOBAL HISTONE 3 ACETYLATION AS WELL AS THE FORMATION OF A COMPLEX CONTAINING CBP AND STAT6 AND THE SUBSEQUENT ACETYLATION OF HISTONE 3 AT THE EOTAXIN-3 PROMOTER. CBP GENE SILENCING DECREASED IL-13-INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION OF EOTAXIN-3. CONVERSELY, INHIBITION OF HISTONE DEACETYLATION INCREASED IL-13-INDUCED EOTAXIN-3 PRODUCTION. CLINICAL STUDIES DEMONSTRATED MARKEDLY INCREASED GLOBAL ACETYLATION OF HISTONE 3 IN THE INFLAMED TISSUE OF PATIENTS WITH ALLERGIC INFLAMMATION. COLLECTIVELY, THESE RESULTS IDENTIFY AN EPIGENETIC MECHANISM INVOLVING CBP AND CHROMATIN REMODELING IN REGULATING IL-13-INDUCED CHEMOKINE TRANSCRIPTION.	2011	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
2   441 21 ANTISENSE-INDUCED DOWNREGULATION OF MAJOR CIRCADIAN GENES MODULATES THE EXPRESSION OF HISTONE DEACETYLASE-2 (HDAC-2) AND CREB-BINDING PROTEIN (CBP) IN THE MEDIAL SHELL REGION OF NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS OF MICE EXPOSED TO CHRONIC EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION. CIRCADIAN GENES IN THE MEDIAL ACCUMBAL SHELL (MNACSH) REGION REGULATE BINGE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION. HERE, WE INVESTIGATED IF ANTISENSE-INDUCED KNOCKDOWN OF MAJOR CIRCADIAN GENES (PER1, PER2, AND NPAS2) IN THE MNACSH OF MICE EXPOSED TO INTERMITTENT ACCESS TWO-BOTTLE CHOICE (IA2BC) PARADIGM MODULATES THE EXPRESSION OF HISTONE DEACETYLASE-2 (HDAC-2) AND CREB-BINDING PROTEIN (CBP), KEY EPIGENETIC MODIFIERS ASSOCIATED WITH WITHDRAWAL-ASSOCIATED BEHAVIORS SUCH AS ANXIETY. ADULT MALE C57BL/6J MICE (N = 28), SURGICALLY IMPLANTED WITH BILATERAL GUIDE CANNULAS ABOVE THE MNACSH, WERE CHRONICALLY (4 WEEKS) EXPOSED TO ALCOHOL (20% V/V) OR SACCHARIN (0.03%) VIA IA2BC PARADIGM. IN THE FOURTH WEEK, A MIXTURE OF ANTISENSE (AS-ODNS; N = 14/GROUP) OR NONSENSE (NS-ODNS; N = 14/GROUP) OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES AGAINST CIRCADIAN GENES WERE BILATERALLY INFUSED INTO THE MNACSH. SUBSEQUENTLY, ALCOHOL/SACCHARIN CONSUMPTION AND PREFERENCE WERE MEASURED FOLLOWED BY EUTHANIZATION OF ANIMALS AND VERIFICATION OF MICROINJECTION SITES BY VISUAL INSPECTION AND THE EXPRESSION OF HDAC-2 AND CBP BY USING RT-PCR ALONG WITH THE VERIFICATION OF ANTISENSE-INDUCED DOWNREGULATION OF CIRCADIAN GENES IN THE MNACSH. AS COMPARED WITH NS-ODNS, AS-ODNS INFUSION SIGNIFICANTLY ATTENUATED THE ALCOHOL-INDUCED INCREASE IN HDAC-2 AND REDUCTION IN CBP EXPRESSION IN THE MNACSH ALONG WITH A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND PREFERENCE. NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT WAS OBSERVED ON EITHER SACCHARIN CONSUMPTION OR PREFERENCE. OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT CIRCADIAN GENES IN THE MNACSH MAY HAVE A CAUSAL TO PLAY IN MEDIATING EPIGENETIC CHANGES OBSERVED AFTER CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
3  5014 32 PERSISTENCE OF CEREBELLAR ATAXIA DURING CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH EPIGENETIC UP-REGULATION OF FMR1 GENE EXPRESSION IN RAT CEREBELLUM. BACKGROUND: ALCOHOL INTOXICATION PRODUCES ATAXIA BY AFFECTING THE CEREBELLUM, WHICH COORDINATES MOVEMENTS. FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION (FMR) PROTEIN IS A COMPLEX REGULATOR OF RNA AND SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IMPLICATED IN FRAGILE X-ASSOCIATED TREMOR/ATAXIA SYNDROME, WHICH FEATURES ATAXIA AND INCREASED FMR1 MRNA EXPRESSION RESULTING FROM EPIGENETIC DYSREGULATION OF FMRP. WE RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED THAT ACUTE ETHANOL-INDUCED ATAXIA IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED CEREBELLAR FMR1 GENE EXPRESSION VIA HISTONE MODIFICATIONS IN RATS, BUT IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER SIMILAR BEHAVIORAL AND MOLECULAR CHANGES OCCUR FOLLOWING CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE. HERE, WE INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE ON ATAXIA AND EPIGENETICALLY REGULATED CHANGES IN FMR1 EXPRESSION IN THE CEREBELLUM. METHODS: MALE ADULT SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS WERE TRAINED ON THE ACCELERATING ROTAROD AND THEN FED WITH CHRONIC ETHANOL OR A CONTROL LIEBER-DECARLI DIET WHILE UNDERGOING PERIODIC BEHAVIORAL TESTING FOR ATAXIA DURING ETHANOL EXPOSURE AND WITHDRAWAL. CEREBELLAR TISSUES WERE ANALYZED FOR EXPRESSION OF THE FMR1 GENE AND ITS TARGETS USING A REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ASSAY. THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF FMR1 WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED USING A CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY. RESULTS: ATAXIC BEHAVIOR MEASURED BY THE ACCELERATING ROTAROD BEHAVIORAL TEST DEVELOPED DURING CHRONIC ETHANOL TREATMENT AND PERSISTED AT BOTH THE 8-H AND 24-H WITHDRAWAL TIME POINTS COMPARED TO CONTROL DIET-FED RATS. IN ADDITION, CHRONIC ETHANOL TREATMENT RESULTED IN UP-REGULATED EXPRESSION OF FMR1 MRNA AND INCREASED ACTIVATING EPIGENETIC MARKS H3K27 ACETYLATION AND H3K4 TRIMETHYLATION AT 2 SITES WITHIN THE FMR1 PROMOTER. FINALLY, MEASUREMENT OF THE EXPRESSION OF RELEVANT FMRP MRNA TARGETS IN THE CEREBELLUM SHOWED THAT CHRONIC ETHANOL UP-REGULATED CAMP RESPONSE ELEMENT BINDING (CREB) CREB1, PSD95, GRM5, AND GRIN2B MRNA EXPRESSION WITHOUT ALTERING GRIN2A, EAA1, OR HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES CREB BINDING PROTEIN (CBP) OR P300 MRNA TRANSCRIPTS. CONCLUSIONS: THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF FMR1 AND SUBSEQUENT FMRP REGULATION OF TARGET MRNA TRANSCRIPTS CONSTITUTE NEUROADAPTATIONS IN THE CEREBELLUM THAT MAY UNDERLIE THE PERSISTENCE OF ATAXIC BEHAVIOR DURING CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE AND WITHDRAWAL.	2021	

4  3558 20 IMPACT OF CHRONIC BENZENE POISONING ON ABERRANT MITOCHONDRIAL DNA METHYLATION: A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY. BENZENE IS USED AS AN INDUSTRIAL SOLVENT, WHICH MAY RESULT IN CHRONIC BENZENE POISONING (CBP). SEVERAL STUDIES SUGGESTED THAT CBP WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MITOCHONDRIAL EPIGENETIC REGULATION. THIS STUDY AIMED TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL RELATION BETWEEN CBP AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (MTDNA) METHYLATION. THIS PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ENROLLED CBP PATIENTS ADMITTED TO SHENZHEN PREVENTION AND TREATMENT CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES HOSPITAL AND HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS BETWEEN 2018 AND 2021. THE WHITE BLOOD CELL (WBC), RED BLOOD CELL (RBC), HEMOGLOBIN (HB), AND PLATELET (PLT) COUNTS AND MTDNA METHYLATION LEVELS WERE MEASURED USING BLOOD FLOW CYTOMETRY AND TARGETED BISULFITE SEQUENCING, RESPECTIVELY. A TOTAL OF 90 PARTICIPANTS WERE RECRUITED, INCLUDING 30 CASES OF CBP (20 FEMALES, MEAN AGE 43.0 +/- 8.0 YEARS) AND 60 HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS (42 FEMALES, MEAN AGE 43.5 +/- 11.5 YEARS). THIS STUDY DETECTED 168 MITOCHONDRIAL METHYLATION SITES >0 IN ALL STUDY SUBJECTS. THE MTDNA METHYLATION LEVELS IN THE CBP CASES WERE LOWER THAN THE HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS [MEDIAN +/- INTERQUARTILE-RANGE (IQR), 25TH PERCENTILE, 75TH PERCENTILE: (1.140 +/- 0.570, 0.965, 1.535)% VS. MEDIAN +/- IQR, 25TH PERCENTILE, 75TH PERCENTILE: (1.705 +/- 0.205,1.240,2.445)%, P < 0.05]. ADDITIONALLY, THE SPEARMAN CORRELATION ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE MTDNA METHYLATION LEVELS WERE POSITIVELY CORRELATED WITH THE COUNTS OF CIRCULATING LEUKOCYTES [WBC (R = 0.048, P = 0.036)] AND PLATELETS [PLT (R = 0.129, P < 0.01)]. WE PROVIDED SOLID EVIDENCE OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CBP AND ABERRANT MTDNA METHYLATION.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
5  5954 28 TBI-INDUCED NOCICEPTIVE SENSITIZATION IS REGULATED BY HISTONE ACETYLATION. CHRONIC PAIN AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) IS VERY COMMON, BUT THE MECHANISMS LINKING TBI TO PAIN AND THE PAIN-RELATED INTERACTIONS OF TBI WITH PERIPHERAL INJURIES ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. IN THESE STUDIES WE PURSUED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT TBI PAIN SENSITIZATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH HISTONE ACETYLATION IN THE RAT LATERAL FLUID PERCUSSION MODEL. SOME ANIMALS RECEIVED HINDPAW INCISIONS IN ADDITION TO TBI TO MIMIC POLYTRAUMA. NEUROPATHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BRAIN TISSUE FROM SHAM AND TBI ANIMALS REVEALED EVIDENCE OF BLEEDING, BREAKDOWN OF THE BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER, IN THE CORTEX, HIPPOCAMPUS, THALAMUS AND OTHER STRUCTURES RELATED TO PAIN SIGNAL PROCESSING. MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA WAS MEASURED IN THESE ANIMALS FOR UP TO EIGHT WEEKS POST-INJURY. INHIBITORS OF HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE (HAT) AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE (HDAC) WERE USED TO PROBE THE ROLE OF HISTONE ACETYLATION IN SUCH PAIN PROCESSING. WE FOLLOWED SERUM MARKERS INCLUDING GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN (GFAP), NEURON-SPECIFIC ENOLASE 2 (NSE) MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN (MBP) AND S100BETA TO GAUGE TBI INJURY SEVERITY. OUR RESULTS SHOWED THAT TBI CAUSED MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA IN THE HINDPAWS OF THE RATS LASTING SEVERAL WEEKS. HINDPAWS CONTRALATERAL TO TBI SHOWED MORE RAPID AND PROFOUND SENSITIZATION THAN IPSILATERAL HINDPAWS. THE INHIBITION OF HAT USING CURCUMIN 50 MG/KG S.C REDUCED MECHANICAL SENSITIZATION WHILE THE HDAC INHIBITOR SUBEROYLANILIDE HYDROXAMIC ACID 50 MG/KG I.P. PROLONGED SENSITIZATION IN THE TBI RATS. IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF SPINAL CORD TISSUE LOCALIZED CHANGES IN THE LEVEL OF ACETYLATION OF THE H3K9 HISTONE MARK TO DORSAL HORN NEURONS. TAKEN TOGETHER, THESE FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE THAT TBI INDUCES SUSTAINED NOCICEPTIVE SENSITIZATION, AND CHANGES IN SPINAL NEURONAL HISTONE PROTEINS MAY PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
6  2476 27 EPIGENETIC UPREGULATION OF CCL2 AND CCL3 VIA HISTONE MODIFICATIONS IN INFILTRATING MACROPHAGES AFTER PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY. TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF CC-CHEMOKINE LIGAND (CCL) 2 AND CCL3, KEY PLAYERS IN THE PERIPHERAL SENSITIZATION LEADING TO NEUROPATHIC PAIN, WE EXAMINED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTONE H3 MODIFICATION AND THE UPREGULATION OF THESE MOLECULES USING A MOUSE MODEL OF NEUROPATHIC PAIN AFTER PARTIAL SCIATIC NERVE LIGATION (PSL). WE FOUND THAT CIRCUITING BONE MARROW (BM)-DERIVED MACROPHAGES INFILTRATED INTO THE INJURED SCIATIC NERVE (SCN) USING ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN CHIMERIC MICE. THE MRNA LEVELS OF CCL2, CCL3 AND THEIR RECEPTORS (CCR2 AND CCR1/CCR5, RESPECTIVELY) WERE INCREASED IN THE INJURED SCN. CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY REVEALED THAT LEVELS OF LYSINE 9-ACETYLATED HISTONE H3 (H3K9AC) AND LYSINE 4-TRIMETHYLATED H3 (H3K4ME(3)) IN THE PROMOTER REGIONS OF THE CCL2 AND CCL3 GENES WERE INCREASED IN THE INJURED SCN AFTER PSL, INDICATING THE ENHANCEMENT OF GENE EXPRESSION. IMMUNOREACTIVITY FOR H3K9AC AND H3K4ME(3) WAS LOCALIZED IN THE NUCLEI OF INFILTRATING BM-DERIVED CELLS AND CCL-EXPRESSING CELLS IN THE INJURED SCN. WE OBSERVED H3K9AC AND H3K4ME(3) MAINLY IN THE NUCLEI OF RECRUITED MACROPHAGES ON DAY 7 AFTER PSL. FURTHERMORE, UPREGULATION OF CCLS AND CCRS WERE SUPPRESSED BY HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR, ANACARDIC ACID. TAKEN TOGETHER, OUR FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE THAT CCL2 AND CCL3 ARE UPREGULATED IN THE INJURED PERIPHERAL NERVE THROUGH EPIGENETIC HISTONE MODIFICATION IN INFILTRATING IMMUNE CELLS SUCH AS MACROPHAGES. THESE CHEMOKINE CASCADES MAY SUBSEQUENTLY ELICIT CHRONIC NEUROINFLAMMATION FOLLOWING NERVE INJURY.	2013	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
7  1191 25 CORRELATION BETWEEN THE EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF HISTONE H3K9 ACETYLATION OF NR2B GENE PROMOTER IN RAT HIPPOCAMPUS AND ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME. PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL USE DISORDER MAY DEVELOP ACUTE ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME (EWS). PREVIOUS STUDIES SHOWED THAT AN EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF THE N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE (NMDA) RECEPTOR, ESPECIALLY NMDA RECEPTOR 2B SUBUNIT (NR2B), WAS INVOLVED IN THE PATHOLOGICAL PROCESS OF EWS. HOWEVER, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF THE NR2B GENE IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS REGION AND EWS WERE INCONSISTENT. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE HISTONE H3K9 ACETYLATION OF THE NR2B GENE IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS REGION IN EWS. A RAT MODEL OF CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE WAS ESTABLISHED. EWS SCORE AND THE BEHAVIORAL CHANGES WERE RECORDED AT DIFFERENT TIME POINTS. THE NR2B EXPRESSION LEVELS AND THE HISTONE H3K9 ACETYLATION LEVEL IN THE NR2B GENE PROMOTER REGION WERE MEASURED USING QRT-PCR, WESTERN BLOT, IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE, AND CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION, RESPECTIVELY. FINALLY, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF HISTONE H3K9 ACETYLATION OF NR2B GENE PROMOTER AND EWS WERE EXAMINED. OUR ULTIMATE RESULTS SHOWED THAT THE EWS SCORE WAS INCREASED AT 2 H, PEAKED AT 6 H AFTER WITHDRAWAL OF ETHANOL, AND REDUCED TO THE LEVEL PARALLEL TO THE NORMAL CONTROL GROUP AT DAY 3 AFTER ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL. THE NR2B MRNA EXPRESSION AND PROTEIN LEVELS SHOWED SIMILAR PATTERNS. FURTHER CORRELATION ANALYSES INDICTED THAT BOTH HISTONE H3K9 ACETYLATION IN NR2B GENE PROMOTER AND THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF NR2B WERE POSITIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH EWS. OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE MAY RESULT IN EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF HISTONE H3K9 ACETYLATION IN NR2B GENE PROMOTER IN RAT HIPPOCAMPUS, AND THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF NR2B WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVELY CORRELATED WITH ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
8  2672 26 ETHANOL-INDUCED EPIGENETIC REGULATIONS AT THE BDNF GENE IN C57BL/6J MICE. HIGH ETHANOL INTAKE IS WELL KNOWN TO INDUCE BOTH ANXIOLYTIC AND ANXIOGENIC EFFECTS, IN CORRELATION WITH CHROMATIN REMODELING IN THE AMYGDALOID BRAIN REGION AND DEFICITS IN CELL PROLIFERATION AND SURVIVAL IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF RODENTS. WHETHER ONLY MODERATE BUT CHRONIC ETHANOL INTAKE IN C57BL/6J MICE COULD ALSO HAVE AN IMPACT ON CHROMATIN REMODELING AND NEUROPLASTICITY WAS ADDRESSED HERE. CHRONIC ETHANOL CONSUMPTION IN A FREE CHOICE PARADIGM WAS FOUND TO INDUCE MARKED CHANGES IN THE EXPRESSION OF GENES IMPLICATED IN NEURAL DEVELOPMENT AND HISTONE POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS IN THE MOUSE HIPPOCAMPUS. TRANSCRIPTS ENCODING NEURAL BHLH ACTIVATORS AND THOSE FROM BDNF EXONS II, III AND VI WERE UPREGULATED, WHEREAS THOSE FROM BDNF EXON VIII AND HDACS WERE DOWNREGULATED BY ETHANOL COMPARED WITH WATER CONSUMPTION. THESE ETHANOL-INDUCED CHANGES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH ENRICHMENT IN BOTH ACETYLATED H3 AT BDNF PROMOTER PVI AND TRIMETHYLATED H3 AT PII AND PIII. CONVERSELY, ACETYLATED H3 AT PIII AND PVIII AND TRIMETHYLATED H3 AT PVIII WERE DECREASED IN ETHANOL-EXPOSED MICE. IN PARALLEL, HIPPOCAMPAL BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) LEVELS AND TRKB-MEDIATED NEUROGENESIS IN THE DENTATE GYRUS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED BY ETHANOL CONSUMPTION. THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT, IN C57BL/6J MICE, CHRONIC AND MODERATE ETHANOL INTAKE PRODUCES MARKED EPIGENETIC CHANGES UNDERLYING BDNF OVEREXPRESSION AND DOWNSTREAM HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS.	2015	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
9   900 22 CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO ALCOHOL INHIBITS NEW MYELIN GENERATION IN ADULT MOUSE BRAIN. CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION CAUSES COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS ACCOMPANYING WITH WHITE MATTER ATROPHY. RECENT EVIDENCE HAS SHOWN THAT MYELIN DYNAMICS REMAIN ACTIVE AND ARE IMPORTANT FOR BRAIN FUNCTIONS IN ADULTHOOD. FOR EXAMPLE, NEW MYELIN GENERATION IS REQUIRED FOR LEARNING AND MEMORY FUNCTIONS. HOWEVER, IT REMAINS UNDETERMINED WHETHER ALCOHOL EXPOSURE CAN ALTER MYELIN DYNAMICS IN ADULTHOOD. IN THIS STUDY, WE EXAMINE THE EFFECT OF CHRONIC ALCOHOL EXPOSURE ON MYELIN DYNAMICS BY USING GENETIC APPROACHES TO LABEL NEWLY GENERATED MYELIN (NG2-CREERT; MT/MG). OUR RESULTS INDICATED THAT ALCOHOL EXPOSURE (EITHER 5% OR 10% IN DRINKING WATER) FOR 3 WEEKS REMARKABLY REDUCED MGFP + /NG2- NEW MYELIN AND MGFP + /CC1 + NEW OLIGODENDROCYTES IN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND CORPUS CALLOSUM OF 6-MONTH-OLD NG2-CREERT; MT/MG MICE AS COMPARED TO CONTROLS WITHOUT CHANGING THE MGFP + /NG2 + OLIGODENDROCYTE PRECURSOR CELLS (OPCS) DENSITY, SUGGESTING THAT ALCOHOL EXPOSURE MAY INHIBIT OLIGODENDROCYTE DIFFERENTIATION. IN SUPPORT WITH THESE FINDINGS, THE ALCOHOL EXPOSURE DID NOT SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER APOPTOTIC CELL NUMBER OR OVERALL MBP EXPRESSION IN THE BRAINS. FURTHER, THE ALCOHOL EXPOSURE DECREASED THE HISTONE DEACETYLASE1 (HDAC1) EXPRESSION IN MGFP + /NG2 + OPCS, IMPLYING EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS WERE INVOLVED IN THE ARRESTED OPC DIFFERENTIATION. TOGETHER, OUR RESULTS INDICATE THAT CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO ALCOHOL CAN INHIBIT MYELINOGENESIS IN THE ADULT MOUSE BRAIN AND THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE TO ALCOHOL-RELATED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
10  2311 29 EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF CYTOSOLIC PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 IN SH-SY5Y HUMAN NEUROBLASTOMA CELLS. GROUP IVA CYTOSOLIC PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 (CPLA2 OR PLA2G4A) IS A KEY ENZYME THAT CONTRIBUTES TO INFLAMMATION VIA THE GENERATION OF ARACHIDONIC ACID AND EICOSANOIDS. WHILE MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT REGULATION OF CPLA2 BY POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION SUCH AS PHOSPHORYLATION, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT ITS EPIGENETIC REGULATION. IN THIS STUDY, TREATMENT WITH HISTONE DEACETYLASE (HDAC) INHIBITORS, TRICHOSTATIN A (TSA), VALPROIC ACID, TUBACIN AND THE CLASS I HDAC INHIBITOR, MS-275, WERE FOUND TO INCREASE CPLA2ALPHA MESSENGER RNA (MRNA) EXPRESSION IN SH-SY5Y HUMAN NEUROBLASTOMA CELLS. CO-TREATMENT OF THE HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE (HAT) INHIBITOR, ANACARDIC ACID, MODULATED UPREGULATION OF CPLA2ALPHA INDUCED BY TSA. SPECIFIC INVOLVEMENT OF CLASS I HDACS AND HAT IN CPLA2ALPHA REGULATION WAS FURTHER SHOWN, AND A TIP60-SPECIFIC HAT INHIBITOR, NU9056, MODULATED THE UPREGULATION OF CPLA2ALPHA INDUCED BY MS-275. IN ADDITION, CO-TREATMENT OF WITH HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE (HMT) INHIBITOR, 5'-DEOXY-5'-METHYLTHIOADENOSINE (MTA) SUPPRESSED TSA-INDUCED CPLA2ALPHA UPREGULATION. THE ABOVE CHANGES IN CPLA2 MRNA EXPRESSION WERE REFLECTED AT THE PROTEIN LEVEL BY WESTERN BLOTS AND IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY. CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION (CHIP) SHOWED TSA INCREASED BINDING OF TRIMETHYLATED H3K4 TO THE PROXIMAL PROMOTER REGION OF THE CPLA2ALPHA GENE. CELL INJURY AFTER TSA TREATMENT AS INDICATED BY LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE (LDH) RELEASE WAS MODULATED BY ANACARDIC ACID, AND A ROLE OF CPLA2 IN MEDIATING TSA-INDUCED INJURY SHOWN, AFTER CO-INCUBATION WITH THE CPLA2 SELECTIVE INHIBITOR, ARACHIDONOYL TRIFLUOROMETHYL KETONE (AACOCF3). TOGETHER, RESULTS INDICATE EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF CPLA2 AND THE POTENTIAL OF SUCH REGULATION FOR TREATMENT OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
11  6519 36 TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF INTERLEUKIN-2 GENE IN ACTIVATED T CELLS BY MORPHINE. CHRONIC MORPHINE INHIBITS INTERLEUKIN-2 (IL-2) AT BOTH THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS LEVELS. THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS BY WHICH MORPHINE DECREASES IL-2 ARE NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. THE PRODUCTION OF IL-2 IS TIGHTLY REGULATED BY SEVERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS THAT BIND TO THE IL-2 PROMOTER. HEREIN, WE SHOW THAT CHRONIC MORPHINE TREATMENT RESULTS IN AN INCREASE IN CAMP LEVELS WITH A CONCURRENT UP-REGULATION OF THE CAMP INDUCIBLE REPRESSOR INDUCIBLE CAMP EARLY REPRESSOR (ICER)/CAMP RESPONSE ELEMENT MODULATOR (CREM) AND DOWN-REGULATION OF P-CAMP-RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN (CREB) IN ACTIVATED T CELLS. FURTHERMORE, ICER COMPETES FOR P-CREB BINDING TO THE CAMP-RESPONSIVE ELEMENTS (CRES) SITE. THIS LEADS TO THE UNCOUPLING OF CBP/P300 THEREBY ABROGATING IL-2 TRANSCRIPTION. OVEREXPRESSION OF EITHER ANTISENSE CREM OR CREB PLASMID RESCUED MORPHINE-INDUCED INHIBITION OF IL-2 PROMOTER ACTIVITY AND PROTEIN PRODUCTION. IN ADDITION, WE ALSO FOUND THAT CHRONIC MORPHINE TREATMENT INHIBITED THE ACETYLATION AND TRIMETHYLATION OF HISTONES AND DECREASED BOTH DNA DEMETHYLATION AND ACCESSIBILITY OF THE IL-2 PROMOTER. THESE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT CHRONIC MORPHINE TREATMENT MAY FUNCTION THROUGH BOTH TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS TO INHIBIT IL-2 PRODUCTION.	2007	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
12   532 20 ASTROCYTIC C-JUN N-TERMINAL KINASE-HISTONE DEACETYLASE-2 CASCADE CONTRIBUTES TO GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER-1 DECREASE AND MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA FOLLOWING PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY IN RATS. DECREASE OF GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER-1 (GLT-1) IN THE SPINAL DORSAL HORN AFTER NERVE INJURY INDUCES ENHANCED EXCITATORY TRANSMISSION AND CAUSES PERSISTENT PAIN. HISTONE DEACETYLASES (HDACS)-CATALYZED DEACETYLATION MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DECREASE OF GLT-1, WHILE THE DETAILED MECHANISMS HAVE YET TO BE FULLY ELABORATED. SPINAL NERVE LIGATION (SNL) INDUCED SIGNIFICANT INCREASES OF HDAC2 AND DECREASES OF GLT-1 IN SPINAL ASTROCYTES. INTRATHECAL INFUSION OF THE HDAC2 INHIBITORS ATTENUATED THE DECREASE OF GLT-1 AND ENHANCED PHOSPHORYLATION OF GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS. GLT-1 AND PHOSPHORYLATED C-JUN N-TERMINAL KINASE (JNK) WERE HIGHLY COLOCALIZED IN THE SPINAL CORD, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF PJNK POSITIVE CELLS WERE HDAC2 POSITIVE. INTRATHECALLY INFUSION OF THE JNK INHIBITOR SP600125 SIGNIFICANTLY INHIBITED SNL-INDUCED UPREGULATION OF HDAC2. SNL-INDUCED HDAC2 UP-REGULATION COULD BE INHIBITED BY THE NEUTRALIZING ANTI-TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA (TNF-ALPHA) BINDING PROTEIN ETANERCEPT OR THE MICROGLIAL INHIBITOR MINOCYCLINE. IN CULTURED ASTROCYTES, TNF-ALPHA INDUCED ENHANCED PHOSPHORYLATION OF JNK AND A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF HDAC2, AS WELL AS A REMARKABLE DECREASE OF GLT-1, WHICH COULD BE PREVENTED BY SP600125 OR THE HDAC2 SPECIFIC INHIBITOR CAY10683. OUR DATA SUGGEST THAT ASTROCYTIC JNK-HDAC2 CASCADE CONTRIBUTES TO GLT-1 DECREASE AND MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA FOLLOWING PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY. NEUROIMMUNE ACTIVATION AFTER PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY COULD INDUCE EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION CHANGES IN ASTROCYTES AND CONTRIBUTE TO CHRONIC PAIN MAINTENANCE.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
13  5976 22 TET1-DEPENDENT EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF BDNF EXPRESSION IN DORSAL HORN NEURONS MEDIATES NEUROPATHIC PAIN IN RATS. TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION METHYLCYTOSINE DIOXYGENASE 1 (TET1) MEDIATES THE CONVERSION OF 5-METHYLCYTOSINE (5 MC) TO 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE (5 HMC), HENCE PROMOTING DNA DEMETHYLATION. ALTHOUGH RECENT STUDIES HAVE LINKED THE DNA DEMETHYLATION OF SPECIFIC GENES TO PAIN HYPERSENSITIVITY, THE ROLE OF SPINAL TET1-DEPENDENT DNA DEMETHYLATION IN NOCICEPTION HYPERSENSITIVITY DEVELOPMENT REMAINS ELUSIVE. HERE, WE REPORT CORRELATED WITH BEHAVIORAL ALLODYNIA, SPINAL NERVE LIGATION (SNL) UPREGULATED TET1 EXPRESSION IN DORSAL HORN NEURONS THAT HYDROXYLATE 5 MC TO 5 HMC AT CPG DINUCLEOTIDES IN THE BDNF PROMOTER TO PROMOTE SPINAL BDNF EXPRESSION AT DAY 7 AFTER OPERATION. FOCAL KNOCKDOWN OF SPINAL TET1 EXPRESSION DECREASED TET1 BINDING AND 5 HMC ENRICHMENT, FURTHER INCREASED 5 MC ENRICHMENT AT CPG SITES IN THE BDNF PROMOTER AND DECREASED SPINAL BDNF EXPRESSION ACCOMPANIED BY THE ALLEVIATION OF THE DEVELOPED ALLODYNIA. MOREOVER, AT DAY 7 AFTER OPERATION, SNL-ENHANCED TET1 EXPRESSION ALSO INHIBITED THE BINDING OF DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES (DNMTS, I.E., DNMT1, DNMT3A, AND DNMT3B) TO THE BDNF PROMOTER, A REQUIREMENT FOR TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING BY CATALYSING 5-CYTOSINE (5C) TO 5 MC. TOGETHER, THESE DATA SUGGEST AT CPG SITES OF THE BDNF PROMOTER, SNL-ENHANCED TET1 EXPRESSION PROMOTES DNA DEMETHYLATION BOTH BY CONVERTING 5 MC TO 5 HMC AND INHIBITING DNMT BINDING TO REGULATE SPINAL BDNF EXPRESSION, HENCE CONTRIBUTING TO BEHAVIORAL ALLODYNIA DEVELOPMENT.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
14   808 28 CHANGED HISTONE ACETYLATION PATTERNS IN NORMAL-APPEARING WHITE MATTER AND EARLY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LESIONS. THE EPIGENETIC IDENTITY OF OLIGODENDROCYTES IS MODULATED BY POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS OF HISTONES. ACETYLATION OF HISTONE H3 RESULTS FROM THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE ACTIVITY OF HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES (HATS) AND HISTONE DEACETYLASES AND MODULATES TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY SHOWN THAT, IN RODENTS, HISTONE DEACETYLATION FAVORS OLIGODENDROCYTE DIFFERENTIATION, WHEREAS ACETYLATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED LEVELS OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL INHIBITORS OF OLIGODENDROCYTE DIFFERENTIATION. HERE, WE REPORT, IN HUMANS BRAINS, A SHIFT TOWARD HISTONE ACETYLATION IN THE WHITE MATTER OF THE FRONTAL LOBES OF AGED SUBJECTS AND IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS). INCREASED IMMUNOREACTIVITY FOR ACETYLATED HISTONE H3 WAS OBSERVED IN THE NUCLEI OF NOGOA+ OLIGODENDROCYTES IN A SUBSET OF MS SAMPLES. THESE CHANGES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH LEVELS OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL INHIBITORS OF OLIGODENDROCYTE DIFFERENTIATION (I.E., TCF7L2, ID2, AND SOX2) AND HIGHER HAT TRANSCRIPT LEVELS (I.E., CBP, P300) IN FEMALE MS PATIENTS COMPARED WITH NON-NEUROLOGICAL CONTROLS AND CORRELATED WITH DISEASE DURATION. CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION FROM SAMPLES OF MS PATIENTS REVEALED ENRICHMENT OF ACETYL-HISTONE H3 AT THE PROMOTER OF THE INCREASED TARGET GENES (I.E., TCF7L2). THE DATA IN CHRONIC LESIONS CONTRASTED WITH FINDINGS IN EARLY MS LESIONS, WHERE A MARKED OLIGODENDROGLIAL HISTONE DEACETYLATION WAS OBSERVED. TOGETHER, THESE DATA SUGGEST THAT HISTONE DEACETYLATION IS A PROCESS THAT OCCURS AT THE EARLY STAGES OF THE DISEASE AND WHOSE EFFICIENCY DECREASES WITH DISEASE DURATION.	2011	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
15  5834 26 STRESS-INDUCED VISCERAL PAIN IN FEMALE RATS IS ASSOCIATED WITH EPIGENETIC REMODELING IN THE CENTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE AMYGDALA. STRESS AND ANXIETY CONTRIBUTE TO THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS), A FEMALE-PREDOMINANT DISORDER OF THE GUT-BRAIN AXIS, CHARACTERIZED BY ABDOMINAL PAIN DUE TO HEIGHTENED VISCERAL SENSITIVITY. IN THE CURRENT STUDY, WE AIMED TO EVALUATE IN FEMALE RATS WHETHER EPIGENETIC REMODELING IN THE LIMBIC BRAIN, SPECIFICALLY IN THE CENTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE AMYGDALA (CEA), IS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN STRESS-INDUCED VISCERAL HYPERSENSITIVITY. OUR RESULTS SHOWED THAT 1 H EXPOSURE TO WATER AVOIDANCE STRESS (WAS) FOR 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS DECREASED HISTONE ACETYLATION AT THE GR PROMOTER AND INCREASED HISTONE ACETYLATION AT THE CRH PROMOTER IN THE CEA. CHANGES IN HISTONE ACETYLATION WERE MEDIATED BY THE HISTONE DEACETYLASE (HDAC) SIRT-6 AND THE HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE CBP, RESPECTIVELY. ADMINISTRATION OF THE HDAC INHIBITOR TRICHOSTATIN A (TSA) INTO THE CEA PREVENTED STRESS-INDUCED VISCERAL HYPERSENSITIVITY THROUGH BLOCKADE OF SIRT-6 MEDIATED HISTONE ACETYLATION AT THE GR PROMOTER. IN ADDITION, HDAC INHIBITION WITHIN THE CEA PREVENTED STRESS-INDUCED HISTONE ACETYLATION OF THE CRH PROMOTER. OUR RESULTS SUGGEST THAT, IN FEMALES, EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN THE LIMBIC BRAIN REGULATING GR AND CRH EXPRESSION CONTRIBUTE TO STRESS-INDUCED VISCERAL HYPERSENSITIVITY AND OFFER A POTENTIAL EXPLANATION OF HOW STRESS CAN TRIGGER SYMPTOMS IN IBS PATIENTS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
16  5535 22 ROLE OF BRD4 PHOSPHORYLATION IN THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS IN RELAPSE TO COCAINE-SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN MICE. COCAINE ADDICTION IS A CHRONIC RELAPSING BRAIN DISORDER CHARACTERIZED BY COMPULSIVE DRUG SEEKING. PRELIMINARY STUDY SUGGESTED THAT BROMODOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 4 (BRD4), AN EPIGENETIC READER PROTEIN, PARTICIPATES IN COCAINE-INDUCED REWARD AND NEUROPLASTICITY. HOWEVER, THE EXACT ROLE OF BRD4 IN COCAINE ADDICTION, PARTICULARLY COCAINE RELAPSE, REMAINS ELUSIVE. IN THIS STUDY, WE FOUND THAT BRD4 PHOSPHORYLATION IN THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS (NAC) WAS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE MAINTENANCE OF COCAINE REINFORCEMENT AND RELAPSE IN DIFFERENT COCAINE EXPOSURE PARADIGMS. COCAINE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE BINDING OF PHOSPHORYLATED BRD4 (PBRD4) AT THE PROMOTER OF GRIA2 AND BDNF GENES IN THE NAC. (+)JQ1, A SELECTIVE BRD4 INHIBITOR, MARKEDLY REDUCED THE REINFORCEMENT AND REINSTATEMENT OF COCAINE-SEEKING BEHAVIORS, WHICH WAS ACCOMPANIED BY THE DECREASED EXPRESSIONS OF GRIA2 AND BDNF. FURTHERMORE, CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY SHOWED THAT (+)JQ1 CLEARLY ATTENUATED COCAINE-ENHANCED BINDING OF PBRD4 AT THE PROMOTOR OF GRIA2 AND BDNF GENES. BLOCKADE OF CASEIN KINASE II SIGNIFICANTLY ATTENUATED BRD4 PHOSPHORYLATION AND COCAINE RELAPSE-LIKE BEHAVIORS, SUGGESTING THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF PBRD4 IN MODULATING COCAINE EFFECT. TOGETHER, OUR FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT BRD4 PHOSPHORYLATION IN THE NAC MODULATES MULTIPLE ADDICTION-RELATED BEHAVIORS OF COCAINE AND PARTICULARLY RELAPSE TO COCAINE-SEEKING BEHAVIORS. INHIBITION OF BRD4 ACTIVITY MAY BE A NOVEL TARGET AGAINST COCAINE ADDICTION AND RELAPSE.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
17   696 31 BROMATE-INDUCED CHANGES IN P21 DNA METHYLATION AND HISTONE ACETYLATION IN RENAL CELLS. BROMATE (BRO3-) IS A WATER DISINFECTION BYPRODUCT (DBP) PREVIOUSLY SHOWN TO INDUCE NEPHROTOXICITY IN VITRO AND IN VIVO. WE RECENTLY SHOWED THAT INHIBITORS OF DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 5-AZA-2'-DEOXYCYTIDINE (5-AZA) AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE TRICHOSTATIN A (TSA) INCREASED BRO3- NEPHROTOXICITY WHEREAS ALTERING THE EXPRESSION OF THE CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21. HUMAN EMBRYONIC KIDNEY CELLS (HEK293) AND NORMAL RAT KIDNEY (NRK) CELLS WERE SUB-CHRONICALLY EXPOSED TO BRO3- OR EPIGENETIC INHIBITORS FOR 18 DAYS, FOLLOWED BY 9 DAYS OF WITHDRAWAL. DNA METHYLATION WAS STUDIED USING A MODIFICATION OF BISULFITE AMPLICON SEQUENCING CALLED TARGETED GENE BISULFITE SEQUENCING. BASAL PROMOTER METHYLATION IN THE HUMAN P21 PROMOTER REGION WAS SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER THAN THAT OF THE RAT DNA. FURTHERMORE, 5-AZA DECREASED DNA METHYLATION IN HEK293 CELLS AT THE SIS-INDUCIBLE ELEMENT AT 3 DISTINCT CPG SITES LOCATED AT 691, 855, AND 895 BP UPSTREAM OF TRANSCRIPTION START SITE (TSS). 5-AZA ALSO DECREASED METHYLATION AT THE RAT P21 PROMOTER ABOUT 250 BP UPSTREAM OF THE P21 TSS. IN CONTRAST, SUB-CHRONIC BRO3- EXPOSURE FAILED TO ALTER METHYLATION IN HUMAN OR RAT RENAL CELLS. BRO3- EXPOSURE ALTERED HISTONE ACETYLATION IN NRK CELLS AT THE P21 TSS, BUT NOT IN HEK293 CELLS. INTERESTINGLY, CHANGES IN DNA METHYLATION INDUCED BY 5-AZA PERSISTED AFTER ITS REMOVAL; HOWEVER, TSA- AND BRO3--INDUCED HISTONE HYPERACETYLATION RETURNED TO BASAL LEVELS AFTER 3 DAYS OF WITHDRAWAL. THESE DATA DEMONSTRATE NOVEL SITES WITHIN THE P21 GENE THAT ARE EPIGENETICALLY REGULATED AND FURTHER SHOW THAT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXIST IN THE EPIGENETIC LANDSCAPE BETWEEN RAT AND HUMAN P21, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDS TO TOXICANT-INDUCED CHANGES IN HISTONE ACETYLATION.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
18  4493 34 MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS INDUCES INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE OF BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS VIA MAPK AND NF-KAPPAB ACTIVATION AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE ACTIVITY REDUCTION. MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF INFECTIOUS EXACERBATIONS OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE (COPD) AND MAY ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PATHOGENESIS OF COPD. LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT M. CATARRHALIS-BRONCHIAL EPITHELIUM INTERACTION. WE INVESTIGATED ACTIVATION OF M. CATARRHALIS INFECTED BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND CHARACTERIZED THE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS. MOREOVER, WE TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE M. CATARRHALIS-INDUCED CYTOKINE EXPRESSION IS REGULATED BY ACETYLATION OF HISTONE RESIDUES AND CONTROLLED BY HISTONE DEACETYLASE ACTIVITY (HDAC). WE DEMONSTRATED THAT M. CATARRHALIS INDUCED A STRONG TIME- AND DOSE-DEPENDENT INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN THE BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELL LINE (BEAS-2B), CHARACTERIZED BY THE RELEASE OF IL-8 AND GM-CSF. FOR THIS CYTOKINE LIBERATION ACTIVATION OF THE ERK AND P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN (MAP) KINASES AND TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NF-KAPPAB WAS REQUIRED. FURTHERMORE, M. CATARRHALIS-INFECTED BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS SHOWED AN ENHANCED ACETYLATION OF HISTONE H3 AND H4 GLOBALLY AND AT THE PROMOTER OF THE IL8 GENE. PREVENTING HISTONE DEACETYLATION BY THE HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR TRICHOSTATIN A AUGMENTED THE M. CATARRHALIS-INDUCED IL-8 RESPONSE. AFTER EXPOSURE TO M. CATARRHALIS, WE FOUND A DECREASE IN GLOBAL HISTONE DEACETYLASE EXPRESSION AND ACTIVITY. OUR FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT M. CATARRHALIS-INDUCED ACTIVATION OF IL8 GENE TRANSCRIPTION WAS CAUSED BY INTERFERENCE WITH EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS REGULATING IL8 GENE ACCESSIBILITY. OUR FINDINGS PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO IMPORTANT MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF M. CATARRHALIS-INDUCED ACTIVATION OF HUMAN BRONCHIAL EPITHELIUM.	2006	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
19  1800 19 EFFECT OF HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR ON ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL-INDUCED HYPERALGESIA IN RATS. BACKGROUND: INCREASED PAIN SENSITIVITY IS OBSERVED FOLLOWING ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL, AND ATTEMPTS TO ALLEVIATE THIS HYPERALGESIA CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE CYCLE OF ADDICTION. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE IF ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL-INDUCED HYPERALGESIA WAS OBSERVED IN A CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE MODEL AND IF THIS PAIN WAS AFFECTED BY HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS, THUS REVEALING AN EPIGENETIC MECHANISM. METHODS: ADULT MALE SPRAGUE DAWLEY RATS RECEIVED LIEBER-DECARLI LIQUID CONTROL OR ETHANOL (9% V/V) DIET FOR 15 DAYS. MECHANICAL SENSITIVITY WAS MEASURED WITH VON FREY HAIR STIMULATION OF THE HINDPAW DURING ETHANOL ADMINISTRATION AND 24- AND 72-HOUR WITHDRAWAL. RESULTS: ETHANOL WITHDRAWAL PRODUCED SEVERE AND SUSTAINED MECHANICAL HYPERALGESIA, AN EFFECT NOT OBSERVED IN THE CONTROL OR ETHANOL-MAINTAINED GROUPS. FURTHERMORE, THIS HYPERALGESIA WAS ATTENUATED BY THE HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR, SUBEROYLANILIDE HYDROXAMIC ACID TREATMENT. CONCLUSIONS: HEIGHTENED PAIN SENSITIVITY WAS OBSERVED FOLLOWING WITHDRAWAL FROM CHRONIC ETHANOL EXPOSURE, AND HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS COULD BE NOVEL TREATMENTS FOR THIS ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL-INDUCED HYPERALGESIA.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
20  5445 30 REPEATED VAPOR ETHANOL EXPOSURE INDUCES TRANSIENT HISTONE MODIFICATIONS IN THE BRAIN THAT ARE MODIFIED BY GENOTYPE AND BRAIN REGION. BACKGROUND: EMERGING RESEARCH IMPLICATES ETHANOL (ETOH)-INDUCED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN REGULATING GENE EXPRESSION AND ETOH CONSUMPTION. HOWEVER, CONSENSUS ON SPECIFIC EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS INDUCED BY ETOH HAS NOT YET EMERGED, MAKING IT CHALLENGING TO IDENTIFY MECHANISMS AND DEVELOP TARGETED TREATMENTS. WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT CHRONIC INTERMITTENT ETOH (CIE) INDUCES PERSISTENT CHANGES IN HISTONE MODIFICATIONS ACROSS THE CEREBRAL CORTEX (CCX), NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS (NAC), AND PREFRONTAL CORTEX (PFC), AND THAT THESE HISTONE MODIFICATIONS ARE ALTERED IN A KNOCK-IN MOUSE STRAIN WITH ALTERED SENSITIVITY TO ETOH. METHODS: C57BL/6J (B6) MICE AND ALPHA1SHLA KNOCKIN MICE ON A B6 BACKGROUND WERE EXPOSED TO 16 H OF VAPOR ETOH OR ROOM AIR FOLLOWED BY 8 H OF ROOM AIR FOR 4 CONSECUTIVE DAYS AND SACRIFICED AT MULTIPLE TIME POINTS UP TO 72 H FOLLOWING EXPOSURE. HISTONE MODIFICATIONS WERE ASSESSED USING WESTERN BLOT AND DOT BLOT. RT-QPCR WAS USED TO STUDY EXPRESSION OF CHROMATIN MODIFYING ENZYMES IN NAC AND PFC. RESULTS: IN NAC, CIE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED ACETYLATION OF HISTONE SUBUNIT H3 AT LYSINE 9 (H3K9AC) BUT NOT LYSINE 14 (H3K14AC) OR LYSINE 27 (H3K27AC). IN PFC, CIE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED H3K9AC BUT NOT H3K14 OR H3K27AC. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES AT 8 OR 72 H AFTER ETOH EXPOSURE IN EITHER NAC OR PFC. CIE WAS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED EXPRESSION OF KAT2B, KAT5, AND TET1 IN NAC BUT NOT PFC. IN CCX, CIE HAD A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON LEVELS OF H3K18AC; THERE WAS ALSO A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT OF THE ALPHA1SHLA MUTATION ON LEVELS OF H3K27ME3, H3K14AC, AND H3K18AC AS WELL AS A TREND FOR H3S10PK14AC. CONCLUSIONS: THE ETOH-INDUCED HISTONE MODIFICATIONS OBSERVED WERE TRANSIENT AND VARIED SIGNIFICANTLY BETWEEN BRAIN REGIONS. A GENETIC MUTATION THAT ALTERED SENSITIVITY TO ETOH WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED INDUCTION OF HISTONE MODIFICATIONS DURING CIE. THESE RESULTS HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDYING ETOH-INDUCED HISTONE MODIFICATIONS AND ETOH SENSITIVITY.	2015