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Orphan receptor GPR158 controls stress-induced depression

  1. Laurie P Sutton
  2. Cesare Orlandi
  3. Chenghui Song
  4. Won Chan Oh
  5. Brian S Muntean
  6. Keqiang Xie
  7. Alice Filippini
  8. Xiangyang Xie
  9. Rachel Satterfield
  10. Jazmine D W Yaeger
  11. Kenneth J Renner
  12. Samuel M Young
  13. Baoji Xu
  14. Hyungbae Kwon
  15. Kirill A Martemyanov  Is a corresponding author
  1. The Scripps Research Institute, United States
  2. Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, United States
  3. University of Brescia, Italy
  4. University of South Dakota, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33273
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  1. Laurie P Sutton
  2. Cesare Orlandi
  3. Chenghui Song
  4. Won Chan Oh
  5. Brian S Muntean
  6. Keqiang Xie
  7. Alice Filippini
  8. Xiangyang Xie
  9. Rachel Satterfield
  10. Jazmine D W Yaeger
  11. Kenneth J Renner
  12. Samuel M Young
  13. Baoji Xu
  14. Hyungbae Kwon
  15. Kirill A Martemyanov
(2018)
Orphan receptor GPR158 controls stress-induced depression
eLife 7:e33273.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33273
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Abstract

Stress can be a motivational force for decisive action and adapting to novel environment; whereas, exposure to chronic stress contributes to the development of depression and anxiety. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying stress-responsive behaviors are not fully understood. Here, we identified the orphan receptor GPR158 as a novel regulator operating in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) that links chronic stress to depression. GPR158 is highly upregulated in the PFC of human subjects with major depressive disorder. Exposure of mice to chronic stress also increased GPR158 protein levels in the PFC in a glucocorticoid-dependent manner. Viral overexpression of GPR158 in the PFC induced depressive-like behaviors. In contrast GPR158 ablation, led to a prominent antidepressant-like phenotype and stress resiliency. We found that GPR158 exerts its effects via modulating synaptic strength altering AMPA receptor activity. Taken together, our findings identify a new player in mood regulation and introduce a pharmacological target for managing depression.

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  1. Laurie P Sutton

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  2. Cesare Orlandi

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  3. Chenghui Song

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  4. Won Chan Oh

    Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, United States
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  5. Brian S Muntean

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  6. Keqiang Xie

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  7. Alice Filippini

    Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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  8. Xiangyang Xie

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  9. Rachel Satterfield

    Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, United States
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  10. Jazmine D W Yaeger

    Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, United States
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  11. Kenneth J Renner

    Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, United States
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  12. Samuel M Young

    Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, United States
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    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-7589-7612

  13. Baoji Xu

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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  14. Hyungbae Kwon

    Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, United States
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    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

  15. Kirill A Martemyanov

    Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, United States
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    kirill@scripps.edu
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Funding

National Institute of Mental Health (MH105482)

  • Kirill A Martemyanov

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL105550)

  • Kirill A Martemyanov

National Institute of Mental Health (MH107460)

  • Hyungbae Kwon

National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA019921)

  • Kenneth J Renner

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC014093)

  • Samuel M Young

University of Iowa

  • Samuel M Young

Max Planck Society

  • Samuel M Young

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

  • Laurie P Sutton

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) protocol (#16-032) at The Scripps Research Institute.

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  1. Richard D Palmiter, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: November 1, 2017
  2. Accepted: February 6, 2018
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: February 8, 2018 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: February 22, 2018 (version 2)

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© 2018, Sutton et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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  1. Laurie P Sutton
  2. Cesare Orlandi
  3. Chenghui Song
  4. Won Chan Oh
  5. Brian S Muntean
  6. Keqiang Xie
  7. Alice Filippini
  8. Xiangyang Xie
  9. Rachel Satterfield
  10. Jazmine D W Yaeger
  11. Kenneth J Renner
  12. Samuel M Young
  13. Baoji Xu
  14. Hyungbae Kwon
  15. Kirill A Martemyanov
(2018)
Orphan receptor GPR158 controls stress-induced depression
eLife 7:e33273.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33273

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