The role of protein intrinsic disorder in major psychiatric disorders
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- 作者：Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues ; Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza ; Vanessa Rodrigues Paixã ; o-Cô ; rtes ; Estela M. Bruxel ; Jaqueline B. Schuch ; Deise C. Friedrich ; Luis A. Rohde and Mara H. Hutz
- 刊名：American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：171
- 期：6
- 页码：848-860
- 全文大小：843K
- ISSN：1552-485X
文摘
Although new candidate genes for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Schizophrenia (SCZ), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Bipolar Disorder (BD) emerged from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), their underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. Evidences of the involvement of intrinsically disordered proteins in diseases have grown in the last decade. These proteins lack tridimensional structure under physiological conditions and are involved in important cellular functions such as signaling, recognition and regulation. The aim of the present study was to identify the role and abundance of intrinsically disordered proteins in a set of psychiatric diseases and to test whether diseases are different regarding protein intrinsic disorder. Our hypothesis is that differences across psychiatric illnesses phenotypes and symptoms may arise from differences in intrinsic protein disorder content and properties of each group. A bioinformatics prediction of intrinsic disorder was performed in proteins retrieved based on top findings from GWAS, Copy Number Variation and candidate gene investigations for each disease. This approach revealed that about 80% of studied proteins presented long stretches of disorder. This amount was significantly higher than that observed in general eukaryotic proteins, and those involved in cardiovascular diseases. These results suggest that proteins with intrinsic disorder are a common feature of neurodevelopment and synaptic transmission processes which are potentially involved in the etiology of psychiatric diseases. Moreover, we identified differences between ADHD and ASD when the binary prediction of structure and putative binding sites were compared. These differences may be related to variation in symptom complexity between both diseases.