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Torii K, Ohi K, Fujikane D, Takai K, Kuramitsu A, Muto Y, Sugiyama S, Shioiri T. Tissue-specific gene expression of genome-wide significant loci associated with major depressive disorder subtypes. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2024; 133:111019. [PMID: 38663672 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024]
Abstract
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder. To reduce heterogeneity, large-scale genome-wide association studies have recently identified genome-wide significant loci associated with seven MDD subtypes. However, it was unclear in which tissues the genes near those loci are specifically expressed. We investigated whether genes related to specific MDD subtypes would be preferably expressed in a specific tissue. At 14 novel subtype-specific loci related to seven MDD subtypes-(1) non-atypical-like features MDD, (2) early-onset MDD, (3) recurrent MDD, (4) MDD with suicidal thoughts, (5) MDD without suicidal thoughts, (6) MDD with moderate impairment, and (7) postpartum depression, we investigated whether 22 genome-wide significant genetic variant-mapped genes were tissue-specifically expressed in brain, female reproductive, male specific, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, or urinary tissues in the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) subjects (n ≤ 948). To confirm the tissue-specific expression in the GTEx, we used independent Human Protein Atlas (HPA) RNA-seq subjects (n ≤ 95). Of 22 genes, nine and five genes were tissue-specifically expressed in brain and female reproductive tissues, respectively (p < 2.27 × 10-3). RTN1, ERBB4, and AMIGO1 related to early-onset MDD, recurrent MDD, or MDD with suicidal thoughts were highly expressed in brain tissues (d = 1.19-2.71), while OAS1, LRRC9, DHRS7, PSMA5, SYPL2, and GULP1 related to non-atypical-like features MDD, early-onset MDD, MDD with suicidal thoughts, or postpartum depression were expressed at low levels in brain tissues (d = -0.17--1.48). DFNA5, CTBP2, PCNX4, SDCCAG8, and GULP1, which are related to early-onset MDD, MDD with moderate impairment, or postpartum depression, were highly expressed in female reproductive tissues (d = 0.80-2.08). Brain and female reproductive tissue-specific expression was confirmed in the HPA RNA-seq subjects. Our findings suggest that brain and female reproductive tissue-specific expression might contribute to the pathogenesis of MDD subtypes.
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- Kaai Torii
- School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan; Department of General Internal Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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Chai K, Liang J, Zhang X, Cao P, Chen S, Gu H, Ye W, Liu R, Hu W, Peng C, Liu GL, Shen D. Application of Machine Learning and Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Algorithm to Explore the Hub Genes in the Aging Brain. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 13:707165. [PMID: 34733151 PMCID: PMC8558222 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.707165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Abstract
Aging is a major risk factor contributing to neurodegeneration and dementia. However, it remains unclarified how aging promotes these diseases. Here, we use machine learning and weighted gene co-expression network (WGCNA) to explore the relationship between aging and gene expression in the human frontal cortex and reveal potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets of neurodegeneration and dementia related to aging. The transcriptional profiling data of the human frontal cortex from individuals ranging from 26 to 106 years old was obtained from the GEO database in NCBI. Self-Organizing Feature Map (SOM) was conducted to find the clusters in which gene expressions downregulate with aging. For WGCNA analysis, first, co-expressed genes were clustered into different modules, and modules of interest were identified through calculating the correlation coefficient between the module and phenotypic trait (age). Next, the overlapping genes between differentially expressed genes (DEG, between young and aged group) and genes in the module of interest were discovered. Random Forest classifier was performed to obtain the most significant genes in the overlapping genes. The disclosed significant genes were further identified through network analysis. Through WGCNA analysis, the greenyellow module is found to be highly negatively correlated with age, and functions mainly in long-term potentiation and calcium signaling pathways. Through step-by-step filtering of the module genes by overlapping with downregulated DEGs in aged group and Random Forest classifier analysis, we found that MAPT, KLHDC3, RAP2A, RAP2B, ELAVL2, and SYN1 were co-expressed and highly correlated with aging.
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- Keping Chai
- Department of Pediatrics, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Neurological Disorders, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Neurological Disorders, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory for Molecular Diagnosis of Hubei Province, Tongji Medical College, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.,Central Laboratory, Tongji Medical College, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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Faoro C, Ataide SF. Noncanonical Functions and Cellular Dynamics of the Mammalian Signal Recognition Particle Components. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:679584. [PMID: 34113652 PMCID: PMC8185352 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.679584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
The signal recognition particle (SRP) is a ribonucleoprotein complex fundamental for co-translational delivery of proteins to their proper membrane localization and secretory pathways. Literature of the past two decades has suggested new roles for individual SRP components, 7SL RNA and proteins SRP9, SRP14, SRP19, SRP54, SRP68 and SRP72, outside the SRP cycle. These noncanonical functions interconnect SRP with a multitude of cellular and molecular pathways, including virus-host interactions, stress response, transcriptional regulation and modulation of apoptosis in autoimmune diseases. Uncovered novel properties of the SRP components present a new perspective for the mammalian SRP as a biological modulator of multiple cellular processes. As a consequence of these findings, SRP components have been correlated with a growing list of diseases, such as cancer progression, myopathies and bone marrow genetic diseases, suggesting a potential for development of SRP-target therapies of each individual component. For the first time, here we present the current knowledge on the SRP noncanonical functions and raise the need of a deeper understanding of the molecular interactions between SRP and accessory cellular components. We examine diseases associated with SRP components and discuss the development and feasibility of therapeutics targeting individual SRP noncanonical functions.
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- Camilla Faoro
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Ohi K, Sugiyama S, Soda M, Kitaichi K, Kawasaki Y, Shioiri T. Effects of genome-wide neuroticism-associated variants on five-factor model personality traits in schizophrenia. Neurosci Res 2021; 172:87-91. [PMID: 33878392 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2021.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) have characteristic personality traits compared with healthy subjects. Genome-wide significant variants for neuroticism have been reported in healthy subjects. However, the associations of these genome-wide neuroticism-associated variants with five-factor personality traits in patients with SCZ are less clear. We investigated the influences of nine independent genome-wide significant variants for neuroticism on five-factor personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) assessed by the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) in 107 patients with SCZ and 119 healthy controls (HCs). As expected, patients with SCZ scored significantly higher for neuroticism and lower for extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness than HCs (p < 0.05). Of nine neuroticism-associated variants, the T allele at rs4653663 related to lower neuroticism was only significantly associated with lower neuroticism in patients with SCZ (β = -0.27, p = 3.88 × 10-3) and in combined subjects (β = -0.15, p = 0.026). Furthermore, of other personality traits, the genetic variant was significantly associated with higher agreeableness in combined subjects (β = 0.17, p = 9.41×10-3), higher conscientiousness in patients with SCZ (β = 0.21, p = 0.031) and lower conscientiousness in HCs (β = -0.20, p = 0.034), and nominally associated with higher extraversion in patients with SCZ (β = 0.18, p = 0.056) and in combined subjects (β = 0.13, p = 0.051). These outcomes were not affected by clinical variables. We suggest that genome-wide neuroticism-associated variant could be associated with neuroticism as well as other personality traits in schizophrenia.
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- Kazutaka Ohi
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan; Department of General Internal Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Biomedical Pharmaceutics, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Biomedical Pharmaceutics, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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Burton CL, Lemire M, Xiao B, Corfield EC, Erdman L, Bralten J, Poelmans G, Yu D, Shaheen SM, Goodale T, Sinopoli VM, Soreni N, Hanna GL, Fitzgerald KD, Rosenberg D, Nestadt G, Paterson AD, Strug LJ, Schachar RJ, Crosbie J, Arnold PD. Genome-wide association study of pediatric obsessive-compulsive traits: shared genetic risk between traits and disorder. Transl Psychiatry 2021; 11:91. [PMID: 33531474 PMCID: PMC7870035 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-01121-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Using a novel trait-based measure, we examined genetic variants associated with obsessive-compulsive (OC) traits and tested whether OC traits and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) shared genetic risk. We conducted a genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) of OC traits using the Toronto Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (TOCS) in 5018 unrelated Caucasian children and adolescents from the community (Spit for Science sample). We tested the hypothesis that genetic variants associated with OC traits from the community would be associated with clinical OCD using a meta-analysis of all currently available OCD cases. Shared genetic risk was examined between OC traits and OCD in the respective samples using polygenic risk score and genetic correlation analyses. A locus tagged by rs7856850 in an intron of PTPRD (protein tyrosine phosphatase δ) was significantly associated with OC traits at the genome-wide significance level (p = 2.48 × 10-8). rs7856850 was also associated with OCD in a meta-analysis of OCD case/control genome-wide datasets (p = 0.0069). The direction of effect was the same as in the community sample. Polygenic risk scores from OC traits were significantly associated with OCD in case/control datasets and vice versa (p's < 0.01). OC traits were highly, but not significantly, genetically correlated with OCD (rg = 0.71, p = 0.062). We report the first validated genome-wide significant variant for OC traits in PTPRD, downstream of the most significant locus in a previous OCD GWAS. OC traits measured in the community sample shared genetic risk with OCD case/control status. Our results demonstrate the feasibility and power of using trait-based approaches in community samples for genetic discovery.
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- The Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Canada
- Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Neurosciences and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Divisions of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, Toronto, Canada
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- Neurosciences and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Neurosciences and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Canada
- Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Song L, Zhou Z, Meng J, Zhu X, Wang K, Wei D, Qiu J. Rostral middle frontal gyrus thickness mediates the relationship between genetic risk and neuroticism trait. Psychophysiology 2020; 58:e13728. [PMID: 33226147 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2020] [Revised: 10/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Neuroticism is a robust personality trait associated with multiple mental disorders. Heretofore, research on the relationship among genes, brain, and behavior to explore individual differences in neuroticism is scarce. Hence, in this study (N = 630), genetic data, self-reported neuroticism, and brain structural data were combined to explore whether the cortical thickness (CT) of brain regions mediated the relationship between the polygenic risk score (PRS) of neuroticism and NEO neuroticism (NEO-N), and the enrichment analysis was performed to reveal the underlying mechanism of their relationship. Results showed that the PRSs were significantly associated with NEO-N scores (p < .05). The CT of left rostral middle frontal gyrus was negatively related to the best PRS in PRSice (PRSbest ) or the PRS at 0.05 threshold (PRS0.05 ) (corrected p < .05), which was also found to mediate the association between the PRS and NEO-N (PRSbest : ab = .012, p < .05; PRS0.05 : ab = .012, p < .05). Enrichment analysis revealed that these genes were mainly involved in biological adhesion, cell adhesion, neuron part, and synapse part, which were associated with the abnormal thickness of frontal cortex. By integrating genetic, brain imaging, and behavioral data, our research initially revealed the neurogenetic underpinnings of neuroticism, which is helpful for understanding individual differences in neuroticism.
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- Li Song
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China
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- School of psychology, Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China.,Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Abstract
Wine, and specifically red wine, is a beverage with a great chemical complexity comprising a particular combination of phenolic compounds which are directly associated with its health-promoting properties. Wine polyphenols could induce changes in the composition of intestinal microbiota that would affect the production of physiologically active phenolic metabolites modifying the content and phenolic profile at the systemic level. In addition, in the human population, it seems that different “metabotypes”, or patterns of metabolizing wine polyphenols, exist, which would be reflected in the different biological fluids (i.e., plasma, urine and feces) and tissues of the human body. Moreover, wine polyphenols might change the composition of oral microbiota by an antimicrobial action and/or by inhibition of the adhesion of pathogens to oral cells, thus contributing to the maintenance of oral health. In turn, polyphenols and/or its metabolites could have a direct action on brain function, by positively affecting signaling routes involved in stress-induced neuronal response, as well as by preventing neuroticism-like disorders (i.e., anxiety and depression) through anti-inflammatory and epigenetic mechanisms. All of this would condition the positive effects on health derived from moderate wine consumption. This paper reviews all these topics, which are directly related with the effects of wine polyphenols at both digestive and brain level. Further progresses expected in the coming years in these fields are also discussed.
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Balz J, Roa Romero Y, Keil J, Schubert F, Ittermann B, Mekle R, Montag C, Gallinat J, Senkowski D. Glutamate Concentration in the Superior Temporal Sulcus Relates to Neuroticism in Schizophrenia. Front Psychol 2018; 9:578. [PMID: 29867621 PMCID: PMC5949567 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Clinical studies suggest aberrant neurotransmitter concentrations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia (SCZ). Numerous studies have indicated deviant glutamate concentrations in SCZ, although the findings are inconsistent. Moreover, alterations in glutamate concentrations could be linked to personality traits in SCZ. Here, we examined the relationships between personality dimensions and glutamate concentrations in a voxel encompassing the occipital cortex (OCC) and another voxel encompassing the left superior temporal sulcus (STS). We used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to examine glutamate concentrations in the OCC and the STS in 19 SCZ and 21 non-psychiatric healthy control (HC) participants. Personality dimensions neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness were assessed using the NEO-FFI questionnaire. SCZ compared to HC showed higher glutamate concentrations in the STS, reduced extraversion scores, and enhanced neuroticism scores. No group differences were observed for the other personality traits and for glutamate concentrations in the OCC. For the SCZ group, glutamate concentrations in STS were negatively correlated with the neuroticism scores [r = -0.537, p = 0.018] but this was not found in HC [r(19) = 0.011, p = 0.962]. No other significant correlations were found. Our study showed an inverse relationship between glutamate concentrations in the STS and neuroticism scores in SCZ. Elevated glutamate in the STS might serve as a compensatory mechanism that enables patients with enhanced concentrations to control and prevent the expression of neuroticism.
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- Johanna Balz
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Zybura-Broda K, Wolder-Gontarek M, Ambrozek-Latecka M, Choros A, Bogusz A, Wilemska-Dziaduszycka J, Rylski M. HuR (Elavl1) and HuB (Elavl2) Stabilize Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 mRNA During Seizure-Induced Mmp-9 Expression in Neurons. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:224. [PMID: 29686606 PMCID: PMC5900018 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (Mmp-9) is involved in different general and cell-type–specific processes, both in neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Moreover, it is implicated in an induction or progression of various human disorders, including diseases of the central nervous system. Mechanisms regulating activity-driven Mmp-9 expression in neurons are still not fully understood. Here, we show that stabilization of Mmp-9 mRNA is one of the factors responsible for the neuronal activity-evoked upregulation of Mmp-9 mRNA expression in hippocampal neurons. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the molecular mechanism related to this stabilization is dependent on the neuronal seizure-triggered transiently increased binding of the mRNA stability-inducing protein, HuR, to ARE1 and ARE4 motifs of the 3′UTR for Mmp-9 mRNA as well as the stably augmented association of another mRNA-stabilizing protein, HuB, to the ARE1 element of the 3′UTR. Intriguingly, we demonstrate further that both HuR and HuB are crucial for an incidence of Mmp-9 mRNA stabilization after neuronal activation. This study identifies Mmp-9 mRNA as the first HuB target regulated by mRNA stabilization in neurons. Moreover, these results are the first to describe an existence of HuR-dependent mRNA stabilization in neurons of the brain.
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- Katarzyna Zybura-Broda
- Department of Clinical Cytology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Cytology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Cytology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Cytology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
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