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    HDAC2 negatively regulates memory formation and synaptic plasticity (2009)
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    Publication Date: 2009-05-09
    Description: Chromatin modifications, especially histone-tail acetylation, have been implicated in memory formation. Increased histone-tail acetylation induced by inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDACis) facilitates learning and memory in wild-type mice as well as in mouse models of neurodegeneration. Harnessing the therapeutic potential of HDACis requires knowledge of the specific HDAC family member(s) linked to cognitive enhancement. Here we show that neuron-specific overexpression of HDAC2, but not that of HDAC1, decreased dendritic spine density, synapse number, synaptic plasticity and memory formation. Conversely, Hdac2 deficiency resulted in increased synapse number and memory facilitation, similar to chronic treatment with HDACis in mice. Notably, reduced synapse number and learning impairment of HDAC2-overexpressing mice were ameliorated by chronic treatment with HDACis. Correspondingly, treatment with HDACis failed to further facilitate memory formation in Hdac2-deficient mice. Furthermore, analysis of promoter occupancy revealed an association of HDAC2 with the promoters of genes implicated in synaptic plasticity and memory formation. Taken together, our results suggest that HDAC2 functions in modulating synaptic plasticity and long-lasting changes of neural circuits, which in turn negatively regulates learning and memory. These observations encourage the development and testing of HDAC2-selective inhibitors for human diseases associated with memory impairment.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498958/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498958/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Guan, Ji-Song -- Haggarty, Stephen J -- Giacometti, Emanuela -- Dannenberg, Jan-Hermen -- Joseph, Nadine -- Gao, Jun -- Nieland, Thomas J F -- Zhou, Ying -- Wang, Xinyu -- Mazitschek, Ralph -- Bradner, James E -- DePinho, Ronald A -- Jaenisch, Rudolf -- Tsai, Li-Huei -- R01 DA028301/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA028301-02/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS051874/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 May 7;459(7243):55-60. doi: 10.1038/nature07925.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19424149" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Butyrates/pharmacology ; Dendritic Spines/physiology ; Electrical Synapses/*physiology ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Hippocampus/metabolism ; Histone Deacetylase 1 ; Histone Deacetylase 2 ; Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors ; Histone Deacetylases/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Hydroxamic Acids/pharmacology ; Learning/drug effects ; Male ; Memory/drug effects/*physiology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Knockout ; Neurons/metabolism ; Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics ; Repressor Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/genetics/*metabolism ; Sodium/pharmacology
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Antigen-specific B-cell receptor sensitizes B cells to infection by influenza virus (2013)
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    Publication Date: 2013-10-22
    Description: Influenza A virus-specific B lymphocytes and the antibodies they produce protect against infection. However, the outcome of interactions between an influenza haemagglutinin-specific B cell via its receptor (BCR) and virus is unclear. Through somatic cell nuclear transfer we generated mice that harbour B cells with a BCR specific for the haemagglutinin of influenza A/WSN/33 virus (FluBI mice). Their B cells secrete an immunoglobulin gamma 2b that neutralizes infectious virus. Whereas B cells from FluBI and control mice bind equivalent amounts of virus through interaction of haemagglutinin with surface-disposed sialic acids, the A/WSN/33 virus infects only the haemagglutinin-specific B cells. Mere binding of virus is not sufficient for infection of B cells: this requires interactions of the BCR with haemagglutinin, causing both disruption of antibody secretion and FluBI B-cell death within 18 h. In mice infected with A/WSN/33, lung-resident FluBI B cells are infected by the virus, thus delaying the onset of protective antibody release into the lungs, whereas FluBI cells in the draining lymph node are not infected and proliferate. We propose that influenza targets and kills influenza-specific B cells in the lung, thus allowing the virus to gain purchase before the initiation of an effective adaptive response.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863936/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863936/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dougan, Stephanie K -- Ashour, Joseph -- Karssemeijer, Roos A -- Popp, Maximilian W -- Avalos, Ana M -- Barisa, Marta -- Altenburg, Arwen F -- Ingram, Jessica R -- Cragnolini, Juan Jose -- Guo, Chunguang -- Alt, Frederick W -- Jaenisch, Rudolf -- Ploegh, Hidde L -- DP1 GM106409/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI033456/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI087879/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM100518/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD045022/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R37 HD045022/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Nov 21;503(7476):406-9. doi: 10.1038/nature12637. Epub 2013 Oct 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2].〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24141948" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibodies/immunology/metabolism ; Antibody Specificity/immunology ; B-Lymphocytes/*immunology/pathology/secretion/*virology ; Cell Death ; Female ; Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/immunology/metabolism ; Immunoglobulin G/immunology/metabolism ; Lung/cytology/immunology/secretion/virology ; Lymph Nodes/cytology/immunology ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neutralization Tests ; Nuclear Transfer Techniques ; Orthomyxoviridae/pathogenicity/*physiology ; Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/*immunology/metabolism ; Virus Replication
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    Parkinson-associated risk variant in distal enhancer of alpha-synuclein modulates target gene expression (2016)
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    Publication Date: 2016-04-21
    Description: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous genetic variants associated with complex diseases, but mechanistic insights are impeded by a lack of understanding of how specific risk variants functionally contribute to the underlying pathogenesis. It has been proposed that cis-acting effects of non-coding risk variants on gene expression are a major factor for phenotypic variation of complex traits and disease susceptibility. Recent genome-scale epigenetic studies have highlighted the enrichment of GWAS-identified variants in regulatory DNA elements of disease-relevant cell types. Furthermore, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-specific changes in transcription factor binding are correlated with heritable alterations in chromatin state and considered a major mediator of sequence-dependent regulation of gene expression. Here we describe a novel strategy to functionally dissect the cis-acting effect of genetic risk variants in regulatory elements on gene expression by combining genome-wide epigenetic information with clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 genome editing in human pluripotent stem cells. By generating a genetically precisely controlled experimental system, we identify a common Parkinson's disease associated risk variant in a non-coding distal enhancer element that regulates the expression of alpha-synuclein (SNCA), a key gene implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Our data suggest that the transcriptional deregulation of SNCA is associated with sequence-dependent binding of the brain-specific transcription factors EMX2 and NKX6-1. This work establishes an experimental paradigm to functionally connect genetic variation with disease-relevant phenotypes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Soldner, Frank -- Stelzer, Yonatan -- Shivalila, Chikdu S -- Abraham, Brian J -- Latourelle, Jeanne C -- Barrasa, M Inmaculada -- Goldmann, Johanna -- Myers, Richard H -- Young, Richard A -- Jaenisch, Rudolf -- 1R01NS088538-01/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- 2R01MH104610-15/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS088538/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2016 May 5;533(7601):95-9. doi: 10.1038/nature17939. Epub 2016 Apr 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Whitehead Institute, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. ; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Masssachusetts 02118, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27096366" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Brain/metabolism ; CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics ; Epigenesis, Genetic/genetics ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Genetic Engineering ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics ; Genome, Human/genetics ; Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism ; Humans ; Models, Genetic ; Parkinson Disease/*genetics ; Pluripotent Stem Cells/metabolism ; Risk ; Transcription Factors/metabolism ; alpha-Synuclein/*genetics
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    Hallmarks of pluripotency (2015)
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    Publication Date: 2015-09-25
    Description: Stem cells self-renew and generate specialized progeny through differentiation, but vary in the range of cells and tissues they generate, a property called developmental potency. Pluripotent stem cells produce all cells of an organism, while multipotent or unipotent stem cells regenerate only specific lineages or tissues. Defining stem-cell potency relies upon functional assays and diagnostic transcriptional, epigenetic and metabolic states. Here we describe functional and molecular hallmarks of pluripotent stem cells, propose a checklist for their evaluation, and illustrate how forensic genomics can validate their provenance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉De Los Angeles, Alejandro -- Ferrari, Francesco -- Xi, Ruibin -- Fujiwara, Yuko -- Benvenisty, Nissim -- Deng, Hongkui -- Hochedlinger, Konrad -- Jaenisch, Rudolf -- Lee, Soohyun -- Leitch, Harry G -- Lensch, M William -- Lujan, Ernesto -- Pei, Duanqing -- Rossant, Janet -- Wernig, Marius -- Park, Peter J -- Daley, George Q -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Sep 24;525(7570):469-78. doi: 10.1038/nature15515.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; School of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Statistical Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. ; Stem Cell Unit, Department of Genetics, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. ; College of Life Sciences and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. ; Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. ; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom. ; Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; South China Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510530, China. ; The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario ON M5G 0A4, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26399828" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Differentiation ; Embryonic Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; Genomics ; Humans ; Pluripotent Stem Cells/*cytology/*metabolism
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