Exp Mol Med.  2018 Mar;50(3):e455. 10.1038/emm.2017.289.

Capsaicin upregulates HDAC2 via TRPV1 and impairs neuronal maturation in mice

Affiliations
  • 1Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Hanyang Biomedical Research Institute, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. hyeonson@hanyang.ac.kr
  • 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • 3Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Disease, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • 4Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) affects mood and neuroplasticity in the brain, where its role is poorly understood. In the present study we investigated whether capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-trans-6-nonenamide), an agonist of TRPV1, induced chromatin remodeling and thereby altered gene expression related to synaptic plasticity. We found that capsaicin treatment resulted in upregulation of histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) in the mouse hippocampus and HDAC2 was enriched at Psd95, synaptophysin, GLUR1, GLUR2 promoters. Viral-mediated hippocampal knockdown of HDAC2 induced expression of Synapsin I and prevented the detrimental effects of capsaicin on Synapsin I expression in mice, supporting the role of HDAC2 in regulation of capsaicin-induced Synapsin I expression. Taken together, our findings implicate HDAC2 in capsaicin-induced transcriptional regulation of synaptic molecules and support the view that HDAC2 is a molecular link between TRPV1 activity and synaptic plasticity.

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