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Reversal of maternal programming of stress responses in adult offspring through methyl supplementation: altering epigenetic marking later in life.


ABSTRACT: Stress responses in the adult rat are programmed early in life by maternal care and associated with epigenomic marking of the hippocampal exon 1(7) glucocorticoid receptor (GR) promoter. To examine whether such epigenetic programming is reversible in adult life, we centrally infused the adult offspring with the essential amino acid L-methionine, a precursor to S-adenosyl-methionine that serves as the donor of methyl groups for DNA methylation. Here we report that methionine infusion reverses the effect of maternal behavior on DNA methylation, nerve growth factor-inducible protein-A binding to the exon 1(7) promoter, GR expression, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and behavioral responses to stress, suggesting a causal relationship among epigenomic state, GR expression, and stress responses in the adult offspring. These results demonstrate that, despite the inherent stability of the epigenomic marks established early in life through behavioral programming, they are potentially reversible in the adult brain.

SUBMITTER: Weaver IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6725868 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reversal of maternal programming of stress responses in adult offspring through methyl supplementation: altering epigenetic marking later in life.

Weaver Ian C G IC   Champagne Frances A FA   Brown Shelley E SE   Dymov Sergiy S   Sharma Shakti S   Meaney Michael J MJ   Szyf Moshe M  

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20051101 47


Stress responses in the adult rat are programmed early in life by maternal care and associated with epigenomic marking of the hippocampal exon 1(7) glucocorticoid receptor (GR) promoter. To examine whether such epigenetic programming is reversible in adult life, we centrally infused the adult offspring with the essential amino acid L-methionine, a precursor to S-adenosyl-methionine that serves as the donor of methyl groups for DNA methylation. Here we report that methionine infusion reverses the  ...[more]

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