Elevated ubiquitinated proteins in brain and blood of individuals with schizophrenia

CA Bousman, S Luza, SG Mancuso, D Kang… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Dysregulation of the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) has been linked to schizophrenia
but it is not clear if this dysregulation is detectable in both brain and blood. We examined …

Increased protein insolubility in brains from a subset of patients with schizophrenia

LG Nucifora, ML MacDonald, BJ Lee… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The mechanisms leading to schizophrenia are likely to be diverse. However,
there may be common pathophysiological pathways for subtypes of the disease. The …

Shifting towards a model of mGluR5 dysregulation in schizophrenia: consequences for future schizophrenia treatment

N Matosin, F Fernandez-Enright, JS Lum, KA Newell - Neuropharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5), encoded by the GRM5 gene,
represents a compelling novel drug target for the treatment of schizophrenia. mGluR5 is a …

Ufl1/RCAD, a Ufm1 E3 ligase, has an intricate connection with ER stress

Z Xie, Z Fang, Z Pan - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2019 - Elsevier
Ufmylation is a type of post-translational modification that deals with complex and fine-tuned
cellular activities. This modification proceeds mainly through a three-step enzymatic reaction …

The role of epigenetic changes in the progression of alcoholic steatohepatitis

HG Kim, J Cho, J Kim, SJ Kim - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) is a progression hepatitis with severe fatty liver and its
mortality rate for 30-days in patients are over 30%. Additionally, ASH is well known for one …

The ufmylation cascade controls COPII recruitment, anterograde transport, and sorting of nascent GPCRs at ER

X Xu, W Huang, CN Bryant, Z Dong, H Li, G Wu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Ufmylation is implicated in multiple cellular processes, but little is known about its functions
and regulation in protein trafficking. Here, we demonstrate that the genetic depletion of core …

Quantitative subcellular proteomics of the orbitofrontal cortex of schizophrenia patients

E Velasquez, D Martins-de-Souza… - Journal of proteome …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Schizophrenia is a chronic disease characterized by the impairment of mental functions with
a marked social dysfunction. A quantitative proteomic approach using iTRAQ labeling and …

Ubiquitin–proteasome system, lipid metabolism and DNA damage repair are triggered by antipsychotic medication in human oligodendrocytes: implications in …

G Seabra, V de Almeida, G Reis-de-Oliveira, F Crunfli… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling psychiatric disorder, whose treatment is
based on psychosocial interventions and the use of antipsychotic drugs. While the effects of …

Network-based analysis of schizophrenia genome-wide association data to detect the joint functional association signals

S Chang, K Fang, K Zhang, J Wang - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Schizophrenia is a common psychiatric disorder with high heritability and complex genetic
architecture. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several significant …

Generation of the UFM1 toolkit for profiling UFM1‐specific proteases and ligases

KF Witting, GJ van der Heden van Noort… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ubiquitin‐fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is a reversible post‐translational modifier that is
covalently attached to target proteins through an enzymatic cascade and removed by …