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Epigenetic control of epilepsy target genes contributes to a cellular memory of epileptogenesis in cultured rat hippocampal neurons

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Title
Epigenetic control of epilepsy target genes contributes to a cellular memory of epileptogenesis in cultured rat hippocampal neurons
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Acta Neuropathologica Communications, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40478-017-0485-x
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K. Kiese, J. Jablonski, J. Hackenbracht, J. K. Wrosch, T. W. Groemer, J. Kornhuber, I. Blümcke, K. Kobow

Abstract

Hypersynchronous neuronal excitation manifests clinically as seizure (ictogenesis), and may recur spontaneously and repetitively after a variable latency period (epileptogenesis). Despite tremendous research efforts to describe molecular pathways and signatures of epileptogenesis, molecular pathomechanisms leading to chronic epilepsy remain to be clarified. We hypothesized that epigenetic modifications may form the basis for a cellular memory of epileptogenesis, and used a primary neuronal cell culture model of the rat hippocampus to study the translation of massive neuronal excitation into persisting changes of epigenetic signatures and pro-epileptogenic target gene expression. Increased spontaneous activation of cultured neurons was detected 3 and 7 days after stimulation with 10 μM glutamate when compared to sham-treated time-matched controls using calcium-imaging in vitro. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation experiments revealed short-term (3 h, 7 h, and 24 h) and long-term (3 d and 2 weeks) changes in histone modifications, which were directly linked to decreased expression of two selected epilepsy target genes, e.g. excitatory glutamate receptor genes Gria2 and Grin2a. Increased promoter methylation observed 4 weeks after glutamate stimulation at respective genes suggested long-term repression of Gria2 and Grin2a genes. Inhibition of glutamatergic activation or blocking the propagation of action potentials in cultured neurons rescued altered gene expression and regulatory epigenetic modifications. Our data support the concept of a cellular memory of epileptogenesis and persisting epigenetic modifications of epilepsy target genes, which are able to turn normal into pro-epileptic neurons and circuits.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 19%
Student > Master 9 15%
Researcher 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 8 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 16 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 9 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 10%
Psychology 4 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 22 37%
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