Journal
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 481-492Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.08.005
Keywords
Innate immunity; Oxidative/nitrosative stress; Transcription factors; Network interaction analysis; Negative symptoms
Funding
- MINECO-FEDER Funds [SAF2016-75500-R]
- CIBERSAM, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spanish Ministry of Health) [PI14/00044]
- Miguel Servet grant [MS16/00153- CP16/00153]
- ISCIII General Branch Evaluation and Promotion of Health Research
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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Alterations in innate immunity may underlie the pathophysiology of schizophrenia (SZ). Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) is a master element of innate immunity. The specificity proteins (SPs), transcription factors recently implicated in SZ, are putative regulatory agents of this. This work was aimed at describing alterations in the TLR4 signalling pathway in postmortem brain prefrontal cortex (PFC) and cerebellum (CB) of 16 chronic SZ patients and 14 controls. The possible association of TLR4 pathway with SP1 and SP4 and SZ negative symptomatology is explored. In PFC, TLR4/myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88)/inhibitory subunit of nuclear factor kappa B alpha (I kappa B alpha) protein levels were lower in SZ patients, while nuclear transcription factor-kappa B (NF kappa B) activity, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression and the lipid peroxidation index malondialdehyde (MDA) appeared increased. The pattern of changes in CB is opposite, except for COX-2 expression that remained augmented and MDA levels unaltered. Network interaction analysis showed that TLR4/MyD88/I kappa B alpha/NF kappa B/COX-2 pathway was coupled in PFC and uncoupled in CB. SP4 co-expressed with TLR4 and NF kappa B in PFC and both SP1 and SP4 co-expressed with NF kappa B in CB. In PFC, correlation analysis found an inverse relationship between NF kappa B and negative symptoms. In summary, we found brain region-specific alterations in the TLR4 signalling pathway in chronic SZ, in which SP transcription factors could participate at different levels. Further studies are required to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms of innate immunity in SZ and its relationship with symptoms.
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