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Journal Article
Transcriptional mechanisms of addiction: role of ΔFosB
2008
Overview
Regulation of gene expression is considered a plausible mechanism of drug addiction, given the stability of behavioural abnormalities that define an addicted state. Among many transcription factors known to influence the addiction process, one of the best characterized is ΔFosB, which is induced in the brain's reward regions by chronic exposure to virtually all drugs of abuse and mediates sensitized responses to drug exposure. Since ΔFosB is a highly stable protein, it represents a mechanism by which drugs produce lasting changes in gene expression long after the cessation of drug use. Studies are underway to explore the detailed molecular mechanisms by which ΔFosB regulates target genes and produces its behavioural effects. We are approaching this question using DNA expression arrays coupled with the analysis of chromatin remodelling-changes in the posttranslational modifications of histones at drug-regulated gene promoters-to identify genes that are regulated by drugs of abuse via the induction of ΔFosB and to gain insight into the detailed molecular mechanisms involved. Our findings establish chromatin remodelling as an important regulatory mechanism underlying drug-induced behavioural plasticity, and promise to reveal fundamentally new insight into how ΔFosB contributes to addiction by regulating the expression of specific target genes in brain reward pathways.
Publisher
The Royal Society
Subject
/ bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
/ BNST
/ Bnst, Bed Nucleus Of The Stria Terminalis
/ Cocaine
/ Genes
/ interstitial nucleus of the posterior limb of the anterior commissure
/ IPAC
/ Ipac, Interstitial Nucleus Of The Posterior Limb Of The Anterior Commissure
/ Mice
/ Neurons
/ PAG
/ Proteins
/ Review
/ VTA
