Awasthi, Ankit

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","3572"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","9"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Journal of Clinical Investigation"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","3584"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","125"],["dc.contributor.author","Benito-Garagorri, Eva"],["dc.contributor.author","Urbanke, Hendrik"],["dc.contributor.author","Ramachandran, Binu"],["dc.contributor.author","Barth, Jonas"],["dc.contributor.author","Haider, Rashi"],["dc.contributor.author","Awasthi, Ankit"],["dc.contributor.author","Jain, Gaurav"],["dc.contributor.author","Capece, Vincenzo"],["dc.contributor.author","Burkhardt, Susanne"],["dc.contributor.author","Navarro-Sala, Magdalena"],["dc.contributor.author","Nagarajan, Sankari"],["dc.contributor.author","Schuetz, Anna-Lena"],["dc.contributor.author","Johnsen, Steven A."],["dc.contributor.author","Bonn, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Luehrmann, Reinhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Dean, Camin"],["dc.contributor.author","Fischer, Andre"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:34Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:34Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Aging and increased amyloid burden are major risk factors for cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Effective therapies for these diseases are lacking. Here, we evaluated mouse models of age-associated memory impairment and amyloid deposition to study transcriptome and cell type-specific epigenome plasticity in the brain and peripheral organs. We determined that aging and amyloid pathology are associated with inflammation and impaired synaptic function in the hippocampal CA1 region as the result of epigenetic-dependent alterations in gene expression. In both amyloid and aging models, inflammation was associated with increased gene expression linked to a subset of transcription factors, while plasticity gene deregulation was differentially mediated. Amyloid pathology impaired histone acetylation and decreased expression of plasticity genes, while aging altered H4K12 acetylation-linked differential splicing at the intron-exon junction in neurons, but not nonneuronal cells. Furthermore, oral administration of the clinically approved histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat not only restored spatial memory, but also exerted antiinflammatory action and reinstated epigenetic balance and transcriptional homeostasis at the level of gene expression and exon usage. This study provides a systems-level investigation of transcriptome plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 region in aging and AD models and suggests that histone deacetylase inhibitors should be further explored as a cost-effective therapeutic strategy against age-associated cognitive decline."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1172/JCI79942"],["dc.identifier.gro","3141833"],["dc.identifier.isi","000362303600031"],["dc.identifier.pmid","26280576"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/1579"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","WoS Import 2017-03-10"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.relation.eissn","1558-8238"],["dc.relation.issn","0021-9738"],["dc.title","HDAC inhibitor-dependent transcriptome and memory reinstatement in cognitive decline models"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1087"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","4"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Cerebral Cortex"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1104"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","28"],["dc.contributor.author","Burk, Katja"],["dc.contributor.author","Ramachandran, Binu"],["dc.contributor.author","Ahmed, Saheeb"],["dc.contributor.author","Hurtado-Zavala, Joaquin I"],["dc.contributor.author","Awasthi, Ankit"],["dc.contributor.author","Benito, Eva"],["dc.contributor.author","Faram, Ruth"],["dc.contributor.author","Ahmad, Hamid"],["dc.contributor.author","Swaminathan, Aarti"],["dc.contributor.author","McIlhinney, Jeffrey"],["dc.contributor.author","Fischer, Andre"],["dc.contributor.author","Perestenko, Pavel"],["dc.contributor.author","Dean, Camin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-01-09T14:34:30Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-01-09T14:34:30Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.description.abstract","Dendritic spines compartmentalize information in the brain, and their morphological characteristics are thought to underly synaptic plasticity. Here we identify copine-6 as a novel modulator of dendritic spine morphology. We found that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) - a molecule essential for long-term potentiation of synaptic strength - upregulated and recruited copine-6 to dendritic spines in hippocampal neurons. Overexpression of copine-6 increased mushroom spine number and decreased filopodia number, while copine-6 knockdown had the opposite effect and dramatically increased the number of filopodia, which lacked PSD95. Functionally, manipulation of post-synaptic copine-6 levels affected miniature excitatory post-synaptic current (mEPSC) kinetics and evoked synaptic vesicle recycling in contacting boutons, and post-synaptic knockdown of copine-6 reduced hippocampal LTP and increased LTD. Mechanistically, copine-6 promotes BDNF-TrkB signaling and recycling of activated TrkB receptors back to the plasma membrane surface, and is necessary for BDNF-induced increases in mushroom spines in hippocampal neurons. Thus copine-6 regulates BDNF-dependent changes in dendritic spine morphology to promote synaptic plasticity."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1093/cercor/bhx009"],["dc.identifier.pmid","28158493"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/11602"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation.eissn","1460-2199"],["dc.title","Regulation of Dendritic Spine Morphology in Hippocampal Neurons by Copine-6"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]