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Sci Rep ; 7: 41221, 2017 01 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28120884

ABSTRACT

Transcriptional changes in superficial spinal dorsal horn neurons (SSDHN) are essential in the development and maintenance of prolonged pain. Epigenetic mechanisms including post-translational modifications in histones are pivotal in regulating transcription. Here, we report that phosphorylation of serine 10 (S10) in histone 3 (H3) specifically occurs in a group of rat SSDHN following the activation of nociceptive primary sensory neurons by burn injury, capsaicin application or sustained electrical activation of nociceptive primary sensory nerve fibres. In contrast, brief thermal or mechanical nociceptive stimuli, which fail to induce tissue injury or inflammation, do not produce the same effect. Blocking N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors or activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2, or blocking or deleting the mitogen- and stress-activated kinases 1 and 2 (MSK1/2), which phosphorylate S10 in H3, inhibit up-regulation in phosphorylated S10 in H3 (p-S10H3) as well as fos transcription, a down-stream effect of p-S10H3. Deleting MSK1/2 also inhibits the development of carrageenan-induced inflammatory heat hyperalgesia in mice. We propose that p-S10H3 is a novel marker for nociceptive processing in SSDHN with high relevance to transcriptional changes and the development of prolonged pain.


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Histones/metabolism , Nociception , Posterior Horn Cells/metabolism , Protein Processing, Post-Translational , Animals , Male , Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1/antagonists & inhibitors , Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3/antagonists & inhibitors , Phosphorylation , Posterior Horn Cells/drug effects , Posterior Horn Cells/physiology , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Rats, Wistar , Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors , Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 90-kDa/antagonists & inhibitors
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