PMID- 30419244 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200123 LR - 20210112 IS - 1873-7064 (Electronic) IS - 0028-3908 (Print) IS - 0028-3908 (Linking) VI - 146 DP - 2019 Mar 1 TI - Ethanol and a rapid-acting antidepressant produce overlapping changes in exon expression in the synaptic transcriptome. PG - 289-299 LID - S0028-3908(18)30844-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.11.007 [doi] AB - Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are prevalent, debilitating, and highly comorbid disorders. The molecular changes that underlie their comorbidity are beginning to emerge. For example, recent evidence showed that acute ethanol exposure produces rapid antidepressant-like biochemical and behavioral responses. Both ethanol and fast-acting antidepressants block N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) activity, leading to synaptic changes and long-lasting antidepressant-like behavioral effects. We used RNA sequencing to analyze changes in the synaptic transcriptome after acute treatment with ethanol or the NMDAR antagonist, Ro 25-6981. Ethanol and Ro 25-6981 induced differential, independent changes in gene expression. In contrast with gene-level expression, ethanol and Ro 25-6981 produced overlapping changes in exons, as measured by analysis of differentially expressed exons (DEEs). A prominent overlap in genes with DEEs indicated that changes in exon usage were important for both ethanol and Ro 25-6981 action. Structural modeling provided evidence that ethanol-induced exon expression in the NMDAR1 amino-terminal domain could induce conformational changes and thus alter NMDAR function. These findings suggest that the rapid antidepressant effects of ethanol and NMDAR antagonists reported previously may depend on synaptic exon usage rather than gene expression. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Wolfe, Sarah A AU - Wolfe SA AD - Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States. FAU - Farris, Sean P AU - Farris SP AD - Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, United States. FAU - Mayfield, Joshua E AU - Mayfield JE AD - Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, United States. FAU - Heaney, Chelcie F AU - Heaney CF AD - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1083, United States. FAU - Erickson, Emma K AU - Erickson EK AD - Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, United States. FAU - Harris, R Adron AU - Harris RA AD - Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, United States. FAU - Mayfield, R Dayne AU - Mayfield RD AD - Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, United States. FAU - Raab-Graham, Kimberly F AU - Raab-Graham KF AD - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1083, United States. Electronic address: kraabgra@wakehealth.edu. LA - eng GR - P50 AA026117/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 AA007471/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 AA007565/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS105005/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - U01 AA013517/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AA026551/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AA020683/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - U01 AA020926/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - U24 AA013517/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AA012404/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20181109 PL - England TA - Neuropharmacology JT - Neuropharmacology JID - 0236217 RN - 0 (Antidepressive Agents) RN - 0 (Phenols) RN - 0 (Piperidines) RN - 0 (Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate) RN - 0 (Receptors, Neurotransmitter) RN - 0 (Ro 25-6981) RN - 3K9958V90M (Ethanol) SB - IM MH - Alcoholism/*genetics MH - Alternative Splicing/drug effects/genetics MH - Animals MH - Antidepressive Agents/pharmacology MH - Comorbidity MH - Depressive Disorder, Major/*genetics MH - Ethanol/pharmacology MH - Exons/*drug effects/*genetics MH - Gene Expression/*drug effects MH - Hippocampus/drug effects MH - Male MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Models, Animal MH - Phenols/pharmacology MH - Piperidines/pharmacology MH - Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors MH - Receptors, Neurotransmitter MH - Transcriptome PMC - PMC6778957 MID - NIHMS1007880 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Alcohol use disorder OT - Alternative splicing OT - Differential exon usage OT - Major depressive disorder OT - Synaptic transcriptome COIS- Declarations of interest The authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interests. EDAT- 2018/11/13 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/24 06:00 PMCR- 2019/10/07 CRDT- 2018/11/13 06:00 PHST- 2018/05/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/10/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/11/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/11/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/24 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/11/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/10/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0028-3908(18)30844-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.11.007 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neuropharmacology. 2019 Mar 1;146:289-299. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.11.007. Epub 2018 Nov 9.