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ReviewNeuron2024

Neuronal enhancers fine-tune adaptive circuit plasticity.

Eric C Griffith, Anne E West, Michael E Greenberg

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Review in Neuron, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Altered Postnatal Chromatin Development in the Nucleus Accumbens Primes Enduring Stress Sensitivity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Neuronal Activity Suppresses NEUROD-Dependent Transcription and Genome Organization.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eric C GriffithDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Anne E WestDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: west@neuro.duke.edu.
Michael E GreenbergDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: michael_greenberg@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Core (GAEC)P50HD105351 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Hisashi Umemori · 2021 to 2026
$9.4M
Psychostimulant-Induced Plasticity of Nucleus Accumbens InterneuronsR01DA047115 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI WEST, ANNE ELIZABETH · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
Chromatin dysregulation in neurodevelopmental disordersR01NS136375 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Anne Elizabeth West · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Chromatin regulation of BDNF in cocaine cravingR21DA061547 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FOWLER, CHRISTIE D, WEST, ANNE ELIZABETH · 2024 to 2025
$444k
Using epigenome editing of transcriptional enhancers to regulate adult visual cortical plasticityR21EY032335 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GLICKFELD, LINDSEY L, WEST, ANNE ELIZABETH · 2022 to 2023
$443k
NEI NIH HHS R21 EY032335NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD105351NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA047115NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA061547NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS136375
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuronal activity-regulated gene expression plays a crucial role in sculpting neural circuits that underpin adaptive brain function. Transcriptional enhancers are now recognized as key components of gene regulation that orchestrate spatiotemporally precise patterns of gene transcription. We propose that the dynamics of enhancer activation uniquely position these genomic elements to finely tune activity-dependent cellular plasticity. Enhancer specificity and modularity can be exploited to gain selective genetic access to specific cell states, and the precise modulation of target gene expression within restricted cellular contexts enabled by targeted enhancer manipulation allows for fine-grained evaluation of gene function. Mounting evidence also suggests that enduring stimulus-induced changes in enhancer states can modify target gene activation upon restimulation, thereby contributing to a form of cell-wide metaplasticity. We advocate for focused exploration of activity-dependent enhancer function to gain new insight into the mechanisms underlying brain plasticity and cognitive dysfunction.

Indexed as

Enhancer Elements, GeneticNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsAnimalsBrainGene Expression RegulationHumansNerve Netcircuit plasticityenhancergene regulationmetaplasticityneuronal activitytranscriptional memory

Identifiers

PMID39208805
PMCPMC11550865

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