Molecular dissection of NRG1-ERBB4 signaling implicates PTPRZ1 as a potential schizophrenia susceptibility gene

Buxbaum, J. D., Georgieva, Lyudmila, Young, J. J., Plescia, C., Kajiwara, Y., Jiang, Y., Escott-Price, Valentina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-5483, Norton, Nadine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3848-4288, Peirce, Timothy Rowan, Williams, Hywel John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-0312, Craddock, Nicholas John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-0610, Carroll, Liam Stuart, Corfas, G., Davis, K. L., Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862, Harroch, S., Sakurai, T. and O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 2008. Molecular dissection of NRG1-ERBB4 signaling implicates PTPRZ1 as a potential schizophrenia susceptibility gene. Molecular psychiatry 13 , pp. 162-172. 10.1038/sj.mp.4001991

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Abstract

Neuregulin and the neuregulin receptor ERBB4 have been genetically and functionally implicated in schizophrenia. In this study, we used the yeast two-hybrid system to identify proteins that interact with ERBB4, to identify genes and pathways that might contribute to schizophrenia susceptibility. We identified the MAGI scaffolding proteins as ERBB4-binding proteins. After validating the interaction of MAGI proteins with ERBB4 in mammalian cells, we demonstrated that ERBB4 expression, alone or in combination with ERBB2 or ERBB3, led to the tyrosine phosphorylation of MAGI proteins, and that this could be further enhanced with receptor activation by neuregulin. As MAGI proteins were previously shown to interact with receptor phosphotyrosine phosphatase beta/zeta (RPTPbeta), we postulated that simultaneous binding of MAGI proteins to RPTPbeta and ERBB4 forms a phosphotyrosine kinase/phosphotyrosine phosphatase complex. Studies in cultured cells confirmed both a spatial and functional association between ERBB4, MAGI and RPTPbeta. Given the evidence for this functional association, we examined the genes coding for MAGI and RPTPbeta for genetic association with schizophrenia in a Caucasian United Kingdom case–control cohort (n=approx1400). PTPRZ1, which codes for RPTPbeta, showed significant, gene-wide and hypothesis-wide association with schizophrenia in our study (best individual single-nucleotide polymorphism allelic P=0.0003; gene-wide P=0.0064; hypothesis-wide P=0.026). The data provide evidence for a role of PTPRZ1, and for RPTPbeta signaling abnormalities, in the etiology of schizophrenia. Furthermore, the data indicate a role for RPTPbeta in the modulation of ERBB4 signaling that may in turn provide further support for an important role of neuregulin/ERBB4 signaling in the molecular basis of schizophrenia.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Case–control studies ; Association ; Protein-tyrosine-phosphatase ; Receptor protein-tyrosine kinases ; Neuregulins ; ERBB4
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	13594184
Related URLs:	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2024 07:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/611

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