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Neuregulin 1-ErbB4-PI3K signaling in schizophrenia and phosphoinositide 3-kinase-p110δ inhibition as a potential therapeutic strategy
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) and ErbB4, critical neurodevelopmental genes, are implicated in schizophrenia, but the mediating mechanisms are unknown. Here we identify a genetically regulated, pharmacologically targetable, risk pathway associated with schizophrenia and with ErbB4 genetic variation involving increased expression of a PI3K-linked ErbB4 receptor (CYT-1) and the phosphoinositide 3-kinase subunit, p110δ (PIK3CD). In human lymphoblasts, NRG1-mediated phosphatidyl-inositol,3,4,5 triphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P3] signaling is predicted by schizophrenia-associated ErbB4 genotype and PIK3CD levels and is impaired in patients with schizophrenia. In human brain, the same ErbB4 genotype again predicts increased PIK3CD expression. Pharmacological inhibition of p110δ using the small molecule inhibitor, IC87114, blocks the effects of amphetamine in a mouse pharmacological model of psychosis and reverses schizophrenia-related phenotypes in a rat neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion model. Consistent with these antipsychotic-like properties, IC87114 increases AKT phosphorylation in brains of treated mice, implicating a mechanism of action. Finally, in two family-based genetic studies, PIK3CD shows evidence of association with schizophrenia. Our data provide insight into a mechanism of ErbB4 association with schizophrenia; reveal a previously unidentified biological and disease link between NRG1-ErbB4, p110δ, and AKT; and suggest that p110δ is a previously undescribed therapeutic target for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
- Subjects :
- Psychosis
Receptor, ErbB-4
Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
Neuregulin-1
Blotting, Western
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Mice
Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
Neuregulin 3
Commentaries
mental disorders
medicine
Animals
Humans
Neuregulin 1
Phosphorylation
Protein kinase B
ERBB4
Genetic Association Studies
Cell Line, Transformed
Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors
Genetics
Analysis of Variance
B-Lymphocytes
Multidisciplinary
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase
biology
Molecular Structure
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Adenine
medicine.disease
Flow Cytometry
Rats
ErbB Receptors
Amphetamine
P110δ
biology.protein
Cancer research
Quinazolines
Schizophrenia
Signal transduction
Antipsychotic Agents
Signal Transduction
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0bdaf636eb476b699b16dca71f123175