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Increased regional activity of a pro-autophagy pathway in schizophrenia as a contributor to sex differences in the disease pathology.
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- Gender differences in cognitive function in antipsychotic-treated chronic schizophrenia patients with hyperprolactinemia: a large-scale cross-sectional study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder risk gene AKAP11 sustains cognitive function by regulating TFEB-mediated autophagy.Cell death and differentiation · 2026Article
- The Mechanisms by Which RhoA Activity and Associated Synaptic Effects Are Controlled by the DISC1 Scaffolding-Like Protein.Biological psychiatry · 2026Article
- Autophagy in Schizophrenia: A Continuum From Developmental Vulnerability to Progressive Neuronal Stress? A Scoping Review.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Autophagy and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Unraveling Molecular Mechanisms and Signaling Pathways.CNS & neurological disorders drug targets · 2026Review
- Human endogenous retrovirus W family envelope protein (ERVWE1) regulates macroautophagy activation and micromitophagy inhibition via NOXA1 in schizophrenia.Virologica Sinica · 2025Article
- Atg5 in microglia regulates sex-specific effects on postnatal neurogenesis in Alzheimer's disease.npj aging · 2025Article
- Identification ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Explore autophagy-related lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA ceRNA networks for diagnosis of early-onset schizophrenia through transcriptome analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Based on recent genome-wide association studies, it is theorized that altered regulation of autophagy contributes to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. As activity of autophagy-regulatory pathways is controlled by discrete phosphorylation sites on the relevant proteins, phospho-protein profiling is one of the few approaches available for enabling a quantitative assessment of autophagic activity in the brain. Despite this, a comprehensive phospho-protein assessment in the brains of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder subjects is currently lacking. Using this direction, our broad screening identifies an increase in AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-mediated phospho-activation of the pro-autophagy protein beclin-1 solely in the prefrontal cortex of female, but not male, schizophrenia subjects. Using a reverse translational approach, we surprisingly find that this increase in beclin-1 activity facilitates synapse formation and enhances cognition. These findings are interpreted in the context of human studies demonstrating that female schizophrenia subjects have a lower susceptibility to cognitive dysfunction than males.
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