PMID- 25041363 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150629 LR - 20141007 IS - 1460-9568 (Electronic) IS - 0953-816X (Linking) VI - 40 IP - 7 DP - 2014 Oct TI - Activation-induced cytidine deaminase regulates activity-dependent BDNF expression in post-mitotic cortical neurons. PG - 3032-9 LID - 10.1111/ejn.12678 [doi] AB - Activity-dependent gene expression depends, in part, on transcriptional regulation that is coordinated by rapid changes in the chromatin landscape as well as the covalent modification of DNA. Here we demonstrate that the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a gene that is critically involved in neural plasticity and subject to epigenetic regulation, is regulated by the RNA/DNA editing enzyme, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). Similar to previous reports, we observed an activity-dependent induction of BDNF exon IV mRNA expression, which correlated with a reduction in DNA methylation within the BDNF P4 promoter. Lentiviral-mediated knockdown of AID disrupted these effects and inhibited BDNF exon IV mRNA expression, an effect that was associated with decreased cAMP response element-binding protein occupancy within the BDNF P4 promoter. Thus, together with other epigenetic mechanisms, AID plays a key role in regulating activity-dependent BDNF expression in post-mitotic cortical neurons. CI - (c) 2014 Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Ratnu, Vikram S AU - Ratnu VS AD - Psychiatric Epigenomics Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia. FAU - Wei, Wei AU - Wei W FAU - Bredy, Timothy W AU - Bredy TW LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140717 PL - France TA - Eur J Neurosci JT - The European journal of neuroscience JID - 8918110 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - EC 3.5.4.- (AICDA (activation-induced cytidine deaminase)) RN - EC 3.5.4.5 (Cytidine Deaminase) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*genetics MH - Cerebral Cortex/*metabolism MH - Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/metabolism MH - Cytidine Deaminase/*genetics MH - DNA Methylation MH - *Gene Expression Regulation MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Mitosis MH - Neurons/*metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - AID OT - BDNF OT - DNA methylation OT - mice OT - post-mitotic cortical neurons EDAT- 2014/07/22 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/30 06:00 CRDT- 2014/07/22 06:00 PHST- 2014/02/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/06/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/06/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/07/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/07/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/30 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/ejn.12678 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Neurosci. 2014 Oct;40(7):3032-9. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12678. Epub 2014 Jul 17.