Publications related to Epigenetics of cocaine addiction

Epigenetic memory aids: Synaptic and molecular effects of HDAC inhibition that support memory formation

Learning and memory rely on synaptic communication in which intracellular signals are transported to the nucleus to stimulate transcriptional activation. Memory induced transcriptional increases are accompanied by alterations to the epigenetic landscape an ...

EPFL2022

Metabolic Rewiring by Loss of Sirt5 Promotes Kras-Induced Pancreatic Cancer Progression

Johan Auwerx

BACKGROUND & AIMS: SIRT5 plays pleiotropic roles via post-translational modifications, serving as a tumor suppressor, or an oncogene, in different tumors. However, the role SIRT5 plays in the initiation and progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma ( ...

W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC2021

Pharmacological and genetic perturbation establish SIRT5 as a promising target in breast cancer

Johan Auwerx, Bo Li

SIRT5 is a member of the sirtuin family of NAD(+)-dependent protein lysine deacylases implicated in a variety of physiological processes. SIRT5 removes negatively charged malonyl, succinyl, and glutaryl groups from lysine residues and thereby regulates mul ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Mitochondrial Deacetylase Sirt3 Reduces Vascular Dysfunction and Hypertension While Sirt3 Depletion in Essential Hypertension Is Linked to Vascular Inflammation and Oxidative Stress

Johan Auwerx

Rationale: Hypertension represents a major risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarction, and heart failure and affects 30% of the adult population. Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to hypertension, but specific mechanisms are unclear. The mitochondri ...

2020

Nicotinamide Pathway-Dependent Sirt1 Activation Restores Calcium Homeostasis to Achieve Neuroprotection in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 7

Johan Auwerx, Karim Laurent Gariani

Sirtuin 1 (Sirt1) is a NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase capable of countering age-related neurodegeneration, but the basis of Sirt1 neuroprotection remains elusive. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is an inherited CAG-polyglutamine repeat disorder. Transcr ...

2020

Niacin: an old lipid drug in a new NAD(+) dress

Johan Auwerx, Mario Romani, Elena Katsyuba, Dina Hofer

Niacin, the first antidyslipidemic drug, has been at the center stage of lipid research for many decades before the discovery of statins. However, to date, despite its remarkable effects on lipid profiles, the clinical outcomes of niacin treatment on cardi ...

AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC2019

KAP1 facilitates reinstatement of heterochromatin after DNA replication

Didier Trono, Suk Min Jang, Priscilla Turelli, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Julien Léonard Duc, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Andrea Coluccio, Julien Paul André Pontis, Benjamin Rauwel, Geneviève Almouzni

During cell division, maintenance of chromatin features from the parental genome requires their proper establishment on its newly synthetized copy. The loss of epigenetic marks within heterochromatin, typically enriched in repetitive elements, endangers ge ...

2018

Circadian and Feeding Rhythms Orchestrate the Diurnal Liver Acetylome

Felix Naef, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Jingkui Wang, Loïc Dayon, Frédéric Bruno Martin Gachon, Martin Kussmann, Daniel Alain Dominique Marie Mauvoisin, Joanna Ratajczak, Sebastiano Collino, Florian Atger

Lysine acetylation is involved in various biological processes and is considered a key reversible post-translational modification in the regulation of gene expression, enzyme activity, and subcellular localization. This post-translational modification is t ...

Elsevier2017

Acetylated tubulin is essential for touch sensation in mice

Kai Johnsson, Luc Reymond, Antonino Asaro

At its most fundamental level, touch sensation requires the translation of mechanical energy into mechanosensitive ion channel opening, thereby generating electro-chemical signals. Our understanding of this process, especially how the cytoskeleton influenc ...

Elife Sciences Publications Ltd2016

Methyl Supplementation Attenuates Cocaine-Seeking Behaviors and Cocaine-Induced c-Fos Activation in a DNA Methylation-Dependent Manner

Fiona Hollis

Epigenetic mechanisms, such as histone modifications, regulate responsiveness to drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, but relatively little is known about the regulation of addictive-like behaviors by DNA methylation. To investigate the influence of DNA methyl ...

Soc Neuroscience2015

SIRT2 Deficiency Modulates Macrophage Polarization and Susceptibility to Experimental Colitis

Johan Auwerx, Kristina Schoonjans, Alessia Perino, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Alessandra Piersigilli, Keir Joe Menzies, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Giuseppe Lo Sasso

Background: SIRT2 belongs to a highly conserved family of NAD(+)-dependent deacylases, consisting of seven members (SIRT1-SIRT7), which vary in subcellular localizations and have substrates ranging from histones to transcription factors and enzymes. Recent ...

Public Library of Science2014

Regulation of Energy Metabolism and Mitochondrial Function in Skeletal Muscle During Lipid Overfeeding in Healthy Men

Context/Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the regulation of the fuel partitioning and energy metabolism in skeletal muscle during lipid overfeeding in healthy men. Design/Participants/Intervention: Thirty-nine healthy volunteers were overfed ...

Endocrine Soc2014

Hdac6 deletion delays disease progression in the SOD1(G93A) mouse model of ALS

Johan Auwerx

Defects in axonal transport are thought to contribute to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease. Because -tubulin acetylation facilitates axonal transport, inhibition of the -tubulin deacetylating enzymes, histone deacetylase 6 (Hdac6) and silent in ...

Oxford University Press2013

HDAC4 Does Not Act as a Protein Deacetylase in the Postnatal Murine Brain In Vivo

Reversible protein acetylation provides a central mechanism for controlling gene expression and cellular signaling events. It is governed by the antagonistic commitment of two enzymes families: the histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and the histone deacetyl ...

Public Library Science2013

Protein deacetylation by SIRT1: An emerging key post- translational modification in metabolic regulation

Johan Auwerx, Jiujiu Yu

The biological function of most proteins relies on reversible post-translational modifications, among which phosphorylation is most prominently studied and well recognized. Recently, a growing amount of evidence indicates that acetylation-deacetylation rea ...

Elsevier2010

Reversible acetylation of PGC-1: connecting energy sensors and effectors to guarantee metabolic flexibility

Johan Auwerx, Kristina Schoonjans, Ellen Helena Jeninga

rganisms adapt their metabolism to meet ever changing environmental conditions. This metabolic adaptation involves at a cellular level the fine tuning of mitochondrial function, which is mainly under the control of the transcriptional co-activator prolifer ...

2010

AMPK regulates energy expenditure by modulating NAD(+) metabolism and SIRT1 activity

Johan Auwerx, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Lilia Noriega Lopez

AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a metabolic fuel gauge conserved along the evolutionary scale in eukaryotes that senses changes in the intracellular AMP/ATP ratio. Recent evidence indicated an important role for AMPK in the therapeutic benefits of m ...

2009

KAP1-mediated epigenetic repression in the forebrain modulates behavioral vulnerability to stress

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Didier Trono, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Jean-Charles Bensadoun, Reto Bisaz, Anna Claire Groner, Johan Jakobsson

KAP1 is an essential cofactor of KRAB-zinc finger proteins, a family of vertebrate-specific epigenetic repressors of largely unknown functions encoded in the hundreds by the mouse and human genomes. Here, we report that KAP1 is expressed at high levels and ...

2008