Department of Biotechnology
inStem (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine)

Altered steady state and activity-dependent de novo protein expression in fragile X syndrome.

Publication Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

April 12, 2019

Journal

Nature communications

Volume/Issue

10/1

ISSN

2041-1723

Whether fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) target mRNAs and neuronal activity contributing to elevated basal neuronal protein synthesis in fragile X syndrome (FXS) is unclear. Our proteomic experiments reveal that the de novo translational profile in FXS model mice is altered at steady state and in response to metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) stimulation, but the proteins expressed differ under these conditions. Several altered proteins, including Hexokinase 1 and Ras, also are expressed in the blood of FXS model mice and pharmacological treatments previously reported to ameliorate phenotypes modify their abundance in blood. In addition, plasma levels of Hexokinase 1 and Ras differ between FXS patients and healthy volunteers. Our data suggest that brain-based de novo proteomics in FXS model mice can be used to find altered expression of proteins in blood that could serve as disease-state biomarkers in individuals with FXS.

Alternate Journal

Nat Commun

PubMed ID

30979884

PubMed Central ID

PMC6461708

Authors

Heather Bowling
Aditi Bhattacharya
Guoan Zhang
Danyal Alam
Joseph Z Lebowitz
Nathaniel Bohm-Levine
Derek Lin
Priyangvada Singha
Maggie Mamcarz
Rosemary Puckett
Lili Zhou
Sameer Aryal
Kevin Sharp
Kent Kirshenbaum
Elizabeth Berry-Kravis
Thomas A Neubert
Eric Klann

Keywords

Mice
Female
Adolescent
Male
Young Adult
Humans
Hippocampus
Disease Models, Animal
Phenotype
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Fragile X Syndrome
Adult
Hexokinase
Mice, Knockout
Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate
ras Proteins
Animals
Biomarkers