Hippocampal Proteomic and Metabonomic Abnormalities in Neurotransmission, Oxidative Stress, and Apoptotic Pathways in a Chronic Phencyclidine Rat Model
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population. Due to both a broad range of symptoms and disease heterogeneity, current therapeutic approaches to treat schizophrenia fail to address all symptomatic manifestations of the disease. Therefore, disease models that reproduce core pathological features of schizophrenia are needed for the elucidation of pathological disease mechanisms. Here, we employ a comprehensive global label-free liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry proteomic (LC–MSE) and metabonomic (LC–MS) profiling analysis combined with the targeted proteomics (selected reaction monitoring and multiplex immunoassay) of serum and brain tissues to investigate a chronic phencyclidine (PCP) rat model in which glutamatergic hypofunction is induced through noncompetitive NMDAR-receptor antagonism. Using a multiplex immunoassay, we identified alterations in the levels of several cytokines (IL-5, IL-2, and IL-1β) and fibroblast growth factor-2. Extensive proteomic and metabonomic brain tissue profiling revealed a more prominent effect of chronic PCP treatment on both the hippocampal proteome and metabonome compared to the effect on the frontal cortex. Bioinformatic pathway analysis confirmed prominent abnormalities in NMDA-receptor-associated pathways in both brain regions, as well as alterations in other neurotransmitter systems such as kainate, AMPA, and GABAergic signaling in the hippocampus and in proteins associated with neurodegeneration. We further identified abundance changes in the level of the superoxide dismutase enzyme (SODC) in both the frontal cortex and hippocampus, which indicates alterations in oxidative stress and substantiates the apoptotic pathway alterations. The present study could lead to an increased understanding of how perturbed glutamate receptor signaling affects other relevant biological pathways in schizophrenia and, therefore, support drug discovery efforts for the improved treatment of patients suffering from this debilitating psychiatric disorder.
Date Issued
2015-06-04
Date Acceptance
2015-06-04
Citation
Journal of Proteome Research, 2015, 14 (8), pp.3174-3187
ISSN
1535-3907
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
3174
End Page
3187
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Proteome Research
Volume
14
Issue
8
Copyright Statement
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00105
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biochemical Research Methods
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
chronic phencyclidine (PCP) rat model
schizophrenia
LC-MSE
SRM
metabonomics
multiplex immunoassay
proteomics
NMDA-RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS
FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR-2
MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX
DOPAMINE HYPOTHESIS
COGNITIVE DEFICITS
NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS
GENE-EXPRESSION
ANIMAL-MODEL
SCHIZOPHRENIA
BRAIN
Publication Status
Published