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Loss of schizophrenia-related miR-501-3p in mice impairs sociability and memory by enhancing mGluR5-mediated glutamatergic transmission.

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a polygenetic disease, the heterogeneity of which is likely complicated by epigenetic modifications yet to be elucidated. Here, we performed transcriptomic analysis of peripheral blood RNA from monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia and identified a schizophrenia-associated down-regulated microRNA, miR-501-3p. We showed that the loss of miR-501-3p in germline knockout (KO) male mice resulted in dendritic structure defects, glutamatergic transmission enhancement, and sociability, memory, and sensorimotor gating disruptions, which were attenuated when miR-501 expression was conditionally restored in the nervous system. Combining the results of proteomic analyses with the known genes linked to schizophrenia revealed that metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) was one of the miR-501-3p targets and was elevated in vivo upon loss of miR-501. Treatment with the mGluR5 negative allosteric modulator 3-2((-methyl-4-thiazolyl) ethynyl) pyridine or the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid ameliorated the deficits observed in Mir501-KO mice. The epigenetic and pathophysiological mechanism that links miR-501-3p to the modulation of glutamatergic transmission provides etiological implications for schizophrenia.

SUBMITTER: Liang W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9390987 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Loss of schizophrenia-related miR-501-3p in mice impairs sociability and memory by enhancing mGluR5-mediated glutamatergic transmission.

Liang Wenquan W Hou Yu Y Huang Weiyuan W Wang Yunqian Y Jiang Tingyun T Huang Xingbing X Wang Zhongju Z Wu Fengchun F Zheng Jiawei J Zhang Jie J Ou Haiyan H Li Shuyun S Ping Junjiao J Zhang Yuan Y Ye Junping J Li Zhongwei Z Yang Qiong Q Zhang Jian J Zheng Xianzhen X Li Shufen S Zhu Xin-Hong XH Chen Rongqing R Zhao Cunyou C

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Schizophrenia is a polygenetic disease, the heterogeneity of which is likely complicated by epigenetic modifications yet to be elucidated. Here, we performed transcriptomic analysis of peripheral blood RNA from monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia and identified a schizophrenia-associated down-regulated microRNA, miR-501-3p. We showed that the loss of miR-501-3p in germline knockout (KO) male mice resulted in dendritic structure defects, glutamatergic transmission enhancement, and soci ...[more]

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Loss of schizophrenia-related miR-501-3p in mice impairs sociability and memory by enhancing mGluR5-mediated glutamatergic transmission.

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Loss of schizophrenia-related miR-501-3p in mice impairs sociability and memory by enhancing mGluR5-mediated glutamatergic transmission.

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