title: Deciphering the spatio-temporal expression and stress regulation of Fam107B, the paralog of the resilience-promoting protein DRR1 in the mouse brain.
abstract: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that promote stress resilience might open up new therapeutic avenues to prevent stress-related disorders. We recently characterized a stress and glucocorticoid-regulated gene, down-regulated in renal cell carcinoma - DRR1 (Fam107A). DRR1 is expressed in the mouse brain; it is up-regulated by stress and glucocorticoids and modulates neuronal actin dynamics. In the adult mouse, DRR1 was shown to facilitate specific behaviors which might be protective against some of the deleterious consequences of stress exposure: in the hippocampal CA3 region, DRR1 improved cognitive performance whereas in the septum, it specifically increased social behavior. Therefore DRR1 was suggested as a candidate protein promoting stress-resilience. Fam107B (family with sequence similarity 107, member B) is the unique paralog of DRR1, and both share high sequence similarities, predicted glucocorticoid response elements, heat-shock induction and tumor suppressor properties. So far, the role of Fam107B in the central nervous system was not studied. The aim of the present investigation, therefore, was to analyze whether Fam107B and DRR1 display comparable mRNA expression patterns in the brain and whether both are modulated by stress and glucocorticoids. Spatio-temporal mapping of Fam107B mRNA expression in the embryonic and adult mouse brain, by means of in situ hybridization, showed that Fam107B was expressed during embryogenesis and in the adulthood, with particularly high and specific expression in the forming telencephalon suggestive of an involvement in corticogenesis. In the adult mouse, expression was restricted to neurogenic niches, like the dentate gyrus. In contrast to DRR1, Fam107B mRNA expression failed to be modulated by glucocorticoids and social stress in the adult mouse. In summary, Fam107B and DRR1 show different spatio-temporal expression patterns in the central nervous system, suggesting at least partially different functional roles in the brain, and where the glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-induced regulation appears to be a unique property of DRR1.
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany. Electronic address: Merce.Masana@unimedizin-mainz.de.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Masana
authors: Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
authors: M M
authors: MM
authors: Jukic
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
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authors: A
authors: Kretzschmar
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
authors: K V
authors: KV
authors: Wagner
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Westerholz
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
authors: M V
authors: MV
authors: Schmidt
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
authors: T
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authors: Rein
authors: Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
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authors: Brodski
authors: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804 Munich, Germany.
authors: M B
authors: MB
authors: Müller
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000494:pharmacology; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000494:pharmacology; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D011965:Receptors, Glucocorticoid / Q000819:agonists / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D055153:Stem Cell Niche / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000378:metabolism*; D013997:Time Factors; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: C549076:DRR1 protein, mouse; C000603446:FAM107B protein, mouse; D005938:Glucocorticoids; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011965:Receptors, Glucocorticoid; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; D003907:Dexamethasone
keywords: DRR1 – Fam107A – Tu3A; Fam107B – HITS; corticogenesis; glucocorticoid receptor; stress