TY - JOUR
T1 - Glucose Can Epigenetically Alter the Gene Expression of Neurotrophic Factors in the Murine Brain Cells
AU - Hossain, Md Shamim
AU - Oomura, Yutaka
AU - Katafuchi, Toshihiko
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Wakate B) [16K19007] to M.S.H. and the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 22590225 to T.K. We would like to appreciate the valuable technical supports from the Research Support Center, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. Special thanks go to Dr. Ako Niwase and Dr. Motoko Unoki for their critical corrections of English. We also thank Ayako Tajima for the technical assistance to perform the experiments. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This study was supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Wakate B) [16K19007] to M.S.H. and the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 22590225 to T.K. We would like to appreciate the valuable technical supports from the Research Support Center, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. Special thanks go to Dr. Ako Niwase and Dr. Motoko Unoki for their critical corrections of English. We also thank Ayako Tajima for the technical assistance to perform the experiments.
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PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Glucose is believed to improve the memory in both human and mice, but the detailed insights were mostly elusive. In this study, we focused on two major neurotrophic factors, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1), which are believed to be associated with the memory enhancement and assessed their expressional regulation among the murine neuronal and glial cells. Our findings showed that the glucose administration increased phosphorylated Akt, phosphorylated CREB, exon 1- and exon 4-specific BDNF transcripts, and FGF1 transcripts that are associated with the epigenetic changes expected to open the chromatin and a reduction in histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) in neurons and astrocytes of the murine hippocampus. The glucose administration enhanced the long-term potentiation and the number of dendritic spines in the CA1 and CA3 subfields of hippocampus. The intrahippocampal injection of short hairpin RNA against TrkB canceled the glucose-mediated memory enhancement. Like the glucose, we also report that the HDAC inhibitor can enhance the memory through the BDNF-TrkB pathway but it targeted different brain cell populations to enhance the BDNF and FGF1 transcripts. In addition, the soluble FGF1 treatments significantly increased the BDNF expression in astrocytes and neurons, suggesting that the glucose-mediated induction of the neurotrophic factors could contribute to the memory. Our study provides the valuable insights, explaining the distinctive neuronal and glial cell regulation of the neurotrophic factors by glucose and HDAC inhibitor, which could likely explain how our brain cells can control the release of neurotrophic factors.
AB - Glucose is believed to improve the memory in both human and mice, but the detailed insights were mostly elusive. In this study, we focused on two major neurotrophic factors, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1), which are believed to be associated with the memory enhancement and assessed their expressional regulation among the murine neuronal and glial cells. Our findings showed that the glucose administration increased phosphorylated Akt, phosphorylated CREB, exon 1- and exon 4-specific BDNF transcripts, and FGF1 transcripts that are associated with the epigenetic changes expected to open the chromatin and a reduction in histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) in neurons and astrocytes of the murine hippocampus. The glucose administration enhanced the long-term potentiation and the number of dendritic spines in the CA1 and CA3 subfields of hippocampus. The intrahippocampal injection of short hairpin RNA against TrkB canceled the glucose-mediated memory enhancement. Like the glucose, we also report that the HDAC inhibitor can enhance the memory through the BDNF-TrkB pathway but it targeted different brain cell populations to enhance the BDNF and FGF1 transcripts. In addition, the soluble FGF1 treatments significantly increased the BDNF expression in astrocytes and neurons, suggesting that the glucose-mediated induction of the neurotrophic factors could contribute to the memory. Our study provides the valuable insights, explaining the distinctive neuronal and glial cell regulation of the neurotrophic factors by glucose and HDAC inhibitor, which could likely explain how our brain cells can control the release of neurotrophic factors.
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U2 - 10.1007/s12035-017-0578-3
DO - 10.1007/s12035-017-0578-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 28502041
AN - SCOPUS:85019215326
VL - 55
SP - 3408
EP - 3425
JO - Molecular Neurobiology
JF - Molecular Neurobiology
SN - 0893-7648
IS - 4
ER -