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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Dysregulation of kynurenine metabolism is related to proinflammatory cytokines, attention, and prefrontal cortex volume in schizophrenia |
Author: | Kindler, J. Lim, C.K. Weickert, C.S. Boerrigter, D. Galletly, C. Liu, D. Jacobs, K.R. Balzan, R. Bruggemann, J. O'Donnell, M. Lenroot, R. Guillemin, G.J. Weickert, T.W. |
Citation: | Molecular Psychiatry, 2019; 43(11) |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
ISSN: | 1359-4184 1476-5578 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jochen Kindler, Chai K. Lim, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Danny Boerrigter, Cherrie Galletly, Dennis Liu, Kelly R. Jacobs, Ryan Balzan, Jason Bruggemann, Maryanne O’Donnell, Rhoshel Lenroot, Gilles J. Guillemin and Thomas W. Weickert |
Abstract: | The kynurenine pathway (KP) of tryptophan (TRP) catabolism links immune system activation with neurotransmitter signaling. The KP metabolite kynurenic acid (KYNA) is increased in the brains of people with schizophrenia. We tested the extent to which: (1) brain KP enzyme mRNAs, (2) brain KP metabolites, and (3) plasma KP metabolites differed on the basis of elevated cytokines in schizophrenia vs. control groups and the extent to which plasma KP metabolites were associated with cognition and brain volume in patients displaying elevated peripheral cytokines. KP enzyme mRNAs and metabolites were assayed in two independent postmortem brain samples from a total of 71 patients with schizophrenia and 72 controls. Plasma KP metabolites, cognition, and brain volumes were measured in an independent cohort of 96 patients with schizophrenia and 81 healthy controls. Groups were stratified based on elevated vs. normal proinflammatory cytokine mRNA levels. In the prefrontal cortex (PFC), kynurenine (KYN)/TRP ratio, KYNA levels, and mRNA for enzymes, tryptophan dioxygenase (TDO) and kynurenine aminotransferases (KATI/II), were significantly increased in the high cytokine schizophrenia subgroup. KAT mRNAs significantly correlated with mRNA for glial fibrillary acidic protein in patients. In plasma, the high cytokine schizophrenia subgroup displayed an elevated KYN/TRP ratio, which correlated inversely with attention and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) volume. This study provides further evidence for the role of inflammation in a subgroup of patients with schizophrenia and suggests a molecular mechanism through which inflammation could lead to schizophrenia. Proinflammatory cytokines may elicit conversion of TRP to KYN in the periphery and increase the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist KYNA via increased KAT mRNA and possibly more enzyme synthesis activity in brain astrocytes, leading to DLPFC volume loss, and attention impairment in schizophrenia. |
Keywords: | Prefrontal Cortex Humans Kynurenic Acid Kynurenine Inflammation Mediators Cytokines Attention Schizophrenia Adult Middle Aged Female Male Young Adult |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41380-019-0401-9 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/568807 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0401-9 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Psychiatry publications |
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