Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler complex within the reward pathway is required for behavioral adaptations to stress

  • Abdallah Zayed,
  • Camille Baranowski,
  • Anne-Claire Compagnion,
  • Cécile Vernochet,
  • Samah Karaki,
  • Romain Durand-de Cuttoli,
  • Estefani Saint-Jour,
  • Soumee Bhattacharya,
  • Fabio Marti,
  • Peter Vanhoutte,
  • Moshe Yaniv,
  • Philippe Faure,
  • Jacques Barik,
  • Laurence Amar,
  • François Tronche,
  • Sébastien Parnaudeau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29380-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Repeated exposure to social stressors in rodents results in behavioural changes. Here the authors show that behavioural adaptations to stress are associated with nuclear organization changes through SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler in specific neuronal populations of the mesolimbic system.