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Epigenetic function during heroin self-administration controls future relapse-like behaviors in a cell type-specific manner

ABSTRACT: Opioid abuse produces enduring associations between the drug euphoria and features of the drug-taking experience, and these powerful associations can trigger relapse in individuals recovering from opioid use disorder. We show here that the epigenetic enzyme, histone deacetylase 5 (HDAC5), functions in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) during active heroin use to limit future relapse-like behavior. Moreover, enhancing HDAC5 function in NAc dramatically suppresses context-associated and reinstated heroin seeking behaviors, but it does not impact sucrose seeking. We also find that HDAC5 functions within dopamine D1 receptor-expressing medium spiny neurons (MSNs) to suppress cue-induced heroin seeking, but within dopamine D2 receptor-expressing MSNs to suppress drug-primed heroin seeking. Using cell type-specific transcriptomics analysis, we found that HDAC5 reduces expression of numerous genes linked to ion transport, and it decreases intrinsic excitability of NAc MSNs, suggesting that HDAC5 limits relapse vulnerability by suppressing NAc MSN firing rates during active heroin use. We used microarrays to define genes differentially expressed in the presence or absence of AAV2-DIO-HDAC5-3SA in both D1 and D2 cell-types derived from Nucleus accumbens following vTRAP.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

PROVIDER: GSE199985 | GEO | 2023/03/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The striatum is the main input structure of the basal ganglia, receiving information from the cortex and the thalamus and consisting of D1- and D2- medium spiny neurons (MSNs). D1-MSNs and D2-MSNs are essential for motor control and cognitive behaviors and have implications in Parkinson’s Disease. In the present study, we demonstrated that Sp9 positive progenitors produced both D1-MSNs and D2-MSNs and that Sp9 expression was rapidly downregulated in postmitotic D1-MSNs. Furthermore, we found that sustained Sp9 expression in lateral ganglionic eminence (LGE) progenitor cells and their descendants led to promoting D2-MSNs identity and repressing D1-MSNs identity during striatal development. As a result, sustained Sp9 expression resulted in an imbalance between D1-MSNs and D2-MSNs in the mouse striatum. In addition, the fate-changed D2 like-MSNs survived normally in adulthood. Taken together, our finding supported that Sp9 was sufficient to promote D2-MSNs identity and repress D1-MSNs identity, and Sp9 was a negative regulator of D1-MSNs fate. The striatum is the main input structure of the basal ganglia, receiving information from the cortex and the thalamus and consisting of D1- and D2- medium spiny neurons (MSNs). D1-MSNs and D2-MSNs are essential for motor control and cognitive behaviors and have implications in Parkinson’s Disease. In the present study, we demonstrated that Sp9 positive progenitors produced both D1-MSNs and D2-MSNs and that Sp9 expression was rapidly downregulated in postmitotic D1-MSNs. Furthermore, we found that sustained Sp9 expression in lateral ganglionic eminence (LGE) progenitor cells and their descendants led to promoting D2-MSNs identity and repressing D1-MSNs identity during striatal development. As a result, sustained Sp9 expression resulted in an imbalance between D1-MSNs and D2-MSNs in the mouse striatum. In addition, the fate-changed D2 like-MSNs survived normally in adulthood. Taken together, our finding supported that Sp9 was sufficient to promote D2-MSNs identity and repress D1-MSNs identity, and Sp9 was a negative regulator of D1-MSNs fate.

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Epigenetic function during heroin self-administration controls future relapse-like behaviors in a cell type-specific manner

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