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Proteomic signatures of schizophrenia-sourced iPSC-derived brain organoids

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a complex and severe neuropsychiatric disorder, with a wide range of debilitating symptoms. Several aspects of its multifactorial complexity are still unknown, and some are accepted to be an early developmental deficiency with a more specifically neurodevelopmental origin. Understanding timepoints of disturbances during neural cell differentiation processes could lead to an insight into the development of the disorder. In this context, human brain organoids and neural cells differentiated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells are of great interest as a model to study the developmental origins of the disease. Here we evaluated the differential expression of proteins of schizophrenia patient-derived neural progenitors, early neurons, and brain organoids. Using bottom-up shotgun proteomics with a label-free approach for quantitative analysis. Multiple dysregulated proteins were found in pathways related to synapses, in line with postmortem tissue studies of schizophrenia patients. However, organoids and immature neurons exhibit impairments in pathways never before found in patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell studies, such as spliceosomes and amino acid metabolism. In conclusion, here we provide comprehensive, large-scale, protein-level data that may uncover underlying mechanisms of the developmental origins of schizophrenia.

INSTRUMENT(S): Synapt MS

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Cell Culture, Neural Cell

DISEASE(S): Schizophrenia

SUBMITTER: Juliana Minardi Nascimento

LAB HEAD: Daniel Martins-de-Souza

PROVIDER: PXD026381 | Pride | 2023-03-11

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Proteomic signatures of schizophrenia-sourced iPSC-derived neural cells and brain organoids are similar to patients' postmortem brains.

Nascimento Juliana Minardi JM Saia-Cereda Verônica M VM Zuccoli Giuliana S GS Reis-de-Oliveira Guilherme G Carregari Victor Corasolla VC Smith Bradley J BJ Rehen Stevens K SK Martins-de-Souza Daniel D

Cell & bioscience 20221201 1

<h4>Background</h4>Schizophrenia is a complex and severe neuropsychiatric disorder, with a wide range of debilitating symptoms. Several aspects of its multifactorial complexity are still unknown, and some are accepted to be an early developmental deficiency with a more specifically neurodevelopmental origin. Understanding the timepoints of disturbances during neural cell differentiation processes could lead to an insight into the development of the disorder. In this context, human brain organoid ...[more]

PMID: 36451159

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Proteomic signatures of schizophrenia-sourced iPSC-derived brain organoids

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Proteomic signatures of schizophrenia-sourced iPSC-derived neural cells and brain organoids are similar to patients' postmortem brains.

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