Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Deficiency of the palmitoyl acyltransferase ZDHHC7 modulates depression-like behaviour in female mice after a mild chronic stress paradigm |
| Authors: |
Christa Hohoff, Nicole Kerkenberg, Mingyue Zhang, Weronika Palkowska, Lydia Wachsmuth, Maja Peng, Lena Stiehl, Christiane Schettler, Johannes C. S. Zang, Andreas Huge, Evgeni Ponimaskin, Cornelius Faber, Bernhard T. Baune, Weiqi Zhang |
| Source: |
Translational Psychiatry, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2025) |
| Publisher Information: |
Nature Publishing Group, 2025. |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Subject Terms: |
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571 |
| More Details: |
Abstract Chronic stress (CS) is a debilitating condition that negatively affects body and brain. In mice, CS effects range from changes in behaviour and brain microstructure down to the level of gene expression. These effects are partly mediated by sex and sex steroid hormones, which in turn are affected by the palmitoyl acyltransferase ZDHHC7. ZDHHC7 might modulate also the response to CS via palmitoylation of sex steroid hormone receptors and other proteins critical for neuronal structure and functions. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the role of ZDHHC7 in response to CS on different system levels in a mouse model of Zdhhc7-deficiency. Female and male Zdhhc7-knockout (KO) and -wildtype (WT) mice underwent a four-week-mild CS paradigm or non-stress control (C) condition. After C or CS, behaviours, hippocampal microstructures (via MRI-based diffusion tensor imaging) and brain gene expression profiles (via mRNA-seq transcriptomics) were investigated. Analyses focused on effects of genotype (KO vs. WT) or condition (C vs. CS) separately in both sexes. Our results revealed significant effects particularly in females. Female KOs displayed increased locomotion and reduced depression-like behaviour after CS (KO vs. WT, C vs. CS: p all |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2158-3188 |
| Relation: |
https://doaj.org/toc/2158-3188 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41398-025-03240-7 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/194594a81743493e970e1d2318db933e |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.194594a81743493e970e1d2318db933e |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
