University of Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR7364 - Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), Strasbourg, France.
University of Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, UMR-S1172 Lille Neuroscience & Cognition (LilNCog), Lille, France.
J Clin Invest. 2022 Jun 15;132(12). doi: 10.1172/JCI149371.
Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world. Strikingly, the molecular pathways engaged by its regular consumption remain unclear. We herein addressed the mechanisms associated with habitual (chronic) caffeine consumption in the mouse hippocampus using untargeted orthogonal omics techniques. Our results revealed that chronic caffeine exerts concerted pleiotropic effects in the hippocampus at the epigenomic, proteomic, and metabolomic levels. Caffeine lowered metabolism-related processes (e.g., at the level of metabolomics and gene expression) in bulk tissue, while it induced neuron-specific epigenetic changes at synaptic transmission/plasticity-related genes and increased experience-driven transcriptional activity. Altogether, these findings suggest that regular caffeine intake improves the signal-to-noise ratio during information encoding, in part through fine-tuning of metabolic genes, while boosting the salience of information processing during learning in neuronal circuits.
咖啡因是世界上最广泛消费的精神活性物质。令人惊讶的是,其常规消费所涉及的分子途径仍不清楚。我们使用非靶向正交组学技术在小鼠海马体中研究了习惯性(慢性)咖啡因消费相关的机制。我们的结果表明,慢性咖啡因在表观基因组、蛋白质组和代谢组学水平上对海马体产生协同的多效性影响。咖啡因降低了大块组织中的代谢相关过程(例如,在代谢组学和基因表达水平上),而在突触传递/可塑性相关基因中诱导神经元特异性表观遗传变化,并增加经验驱动的转录活性。总的来说,这些发现表明,定期摄入咖啡因可以提高信息编码过程中的信噪比,部分原因是通过微调代谢基因,同时在神经元回路的学习过程中提高信息处理的显著性。