Santos-Silva 2023 Transl Psychiatry
Santos-Silva T, Hazar Γlgen D, Lopes CFB, GuimarΓ£es FS, Alberici LC, Sandi C, Gomes FV (2023) Transcriptomic analysis reveals mitochondrial pathways associated with distinct adolescent behavioral phenotypes and stress response. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02648-3 |
Β» Transl Psychiatry 13:351. PMID: 37978166 Open Access
Santos-Silva Thamyris, Hazar Uelgen Dogukan, Lopes Caio Fabio Baeta, Guimaraes Francisco S, Alberici Luciane Carla, Sandi Carmen, Gomes Felipe V (2023) Transl Psychiatry
Abstract: Adolescent individuals exhibit great variability in cortical dynamics and behavioral outcomes. The developing adolescent brain is highly sensitive to social experiences and environmental insults, influencing how personality traits emerge. A distinct pattern of mitochondrial gene expression in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during adolescence underscores the essential role of mitochondria in brain maturation and the development of mental illnesses. Mitochondrial features in certain brain regions account for behavioral differences in adulthood. However, it remains unclear whether distinct adolescent behavioral phenotypes and the behavioral consequences of early adolescent stress exposure in rats are accompanied by changes in PFC mitochondria-related genes and mitochondria respiratory chain capacity. We performed a behavioral characterization during late adolescence (postnatal day, PND 47-50), including naΓ―ve animals and a group exposed to stress from PND 31-40 (10 days of footshock and 3 restraint sessions) by z-normalized data from three behavioral domains: anxiety (light-dark box tests), sociability (social interaction test) and cognition (novel-object recognition test). Employing principal component analysis, we identified three clusters: naΓ―ve with higher-behavioral z-score (HBZ), naΓ―ve with lower-behavioral z-score (LBZ), and stressed animals. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling unveiled differences in the expression of mitochondria-related genes in both naΓ―ve LBZ and stressed animals compared to naΓ―ve HBZ. Genes encoding subunits of oxidative phosphorylation complexes were significantly down-regulated in both naΓ―ve LBZ and stressed animals and positively correlated with behavioral z-score of phenotypes. Our network topology analysis of mitochondria-associated genes found Ndufa10 and Cox6a1 genes as central identifiers for naΓ―ve LBZ and stressed animals, respectively. Through high-resolution respirometry analysis, we found that both naΓ―ve LBZ and stressed animals exhibited a reduced prefrontal phosphorylation capacity and redox dysregulation. Our findings identify an association between mitochondrial features and distinct adolescent behavioral phenotypes while also underscoring the detrimental functional consequences of adolescent stress on the PFC.
β’ Bioblast editor: Plangger M β’ O2k-Network Lab: BR Ribeirao Preto Alberici LC, CH Lausanne Sandi C
Labels: MiParea: Respiration, nDNA;cell genetics, Developmental biology
Organism: Rat
Tissue;cell: Nervous system
Preparation: Permeabilized cells
Coupling state: LEAK, OXPHOS, ET
Pathway: N
HRR: Oxygraph-2k
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