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PEERJ
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PEERJ INC
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13907
Keywords
Schizophrenia; Schizotypal disorder; Proteomics; Mass spectrometry; System biology
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- RSF [18-15-00053-P, 2021-2022]
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This article uses mass spectrometry to analyze the proteins and molecular processes of schizophrenic spectrum disorders. The results show that different types of schizophrenia have distinct protein characteristics, which are closely related to translation, transcription, metabolism, and cell transport processes. These findings contribute to our understanding of the pathogenesis of these disorders.
This article describes the most likely classes of proteins and molecular processes that specifically characterize schizophrenic spectrum disorders such as simple and paranoid schizophrenia, schizotypal disorder, and acute polymorphic psychotic disorder (APPD). The identification of patients' serum proteins was carried out using mass spectrometry. For patients with paranoid schizophrenia, the proteins responsible for translation and transcription are characteristic. A significant part of the proteins of patients with simple schizophrenia regulate the cell's main metabolic and transport processes. These are proteins of the receptor system, vesicular transport, and extracellular matrix, which mainly carry out catabolic processes. The proteins of patients with schizotypal disorder mostly coincided with the classes of other patients, apart from chaperone proteins, which were not found in other studied groups. These proteins are mainly involved in anabolic processes. The main classes of proteins found in patients with APPD are responsible for the metabolism of nucleic acids. Active apoptosis processes were also revealed in these patients. These results from our basic knowledge about the molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of these disorders.
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