Histone 3 lysine 9 acetylation of BRG1 in the medial prefrontal cortex is associated with heroin self ‑administration in rats.

Histone 3 lysine 9 acetylation of BRG1 in the medial prefrontal cortex is associated with heroin self‑administration in rats. Mol Med Rep. 2019 Nov 22;: Authors: Hong Q, Liu J, Lin Z, Zhuang D, Xu W, Xu Z, Lai M, Zhu H, Zhou W, Liu H Abstract Heroin addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder with negative social consequences. Histone acetylation serves a role in drug‑induced behavior and neuroplasticity impairment. Brahma/SWI2‑related gene‑1 (BRG1) participates in cerebellar development, embryogenesis and transcriptional regulation of neuronal genes concurrent with histone modifications. However, little is known about the relationship between histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation (H3K9ac) and BRG1 in response to heroin. The present study aimed to assess the contribution of histone 3 lysine 9 acetylation of BRG1 to heroin self‑administration. The present study established a Sprague‑Dawley rat model of heroin self‑administration under a fixed‑ratio‑1 paradigm. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by reverse transcription‑quantitative PCR (RT‑qPCR) was used to detect the accumulation of H3K9ac on BRG1 in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) following heroin self‑administration. The relative expression levels of BRG1 were analyzed by RT‑qPCR. H3K9ac at the promoter region of BRG1 was significantly elevated (P=0.002), and the expression of BRG1 in the mPFC increased 1.47‑fold in the ...
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