TY - JOUR
T1 - Mice carrying a schizophrenia-associated mutation of the Arhgap10 gene are vulnerable to the effects of methamphetamine treatment on cognitive function
T2 - association with morphological abnormalities in striatal neurons
AU - Hada, Kazuhiro
AU - Wulaer, Bolati
AU - Nagai, Taku
AU - Itoh, Norimichi
AU - Sawahata, Masahito
AU - Sobue, Akira
AU - Mizoguchi, Hiroyuki
AU - Mori, Daisuke
AU - Kushima, Itaru
AU - Nabeshima, Toshitaka
AU - Ozaki, Norio
AU - Yamada, Kiyofumi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - We recently found a significant association between exonic copy-number variations in the Rho GTPase activating protein 10 (Arhgap10) gene and schizophrenia in Japanese patients. Special attention was paid to one patient carrying a missense variant (p.S490P) in exon 17, which overlapped with an exonic deletion in the other allele. Accordingly, we generated a mouse model (Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice) carrying a missense variant and a coexisting frameshift mutation. We examined the spatiotemporal expression of Arhgap10 mRNA in the brain and found the highest expression levels in the cerebellum, striatum, and nucleus accumbens (NAc), followed by the frontal cortex in adolescent mice. The expression levels of phosphorylated myosin phosphatase-targeting subunit 1 and phosphorylated p21-activated kinases in the striatum and NAc were significantly increased in Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice compared with wild-type littermates. Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice exhibited a significant increase in neuronal complexity and spine density in the striatum and NAc. There was no difference in touchscreen-based visual discrimination learning between Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ and wild-type mice, but a significant impairment of visual discrimination was evident in Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice but not wild-type mice when they were treated with methamphetamine. The number of c-Fos-positive cells was significantly increased after methamphetamine treatment in the dorsomedial striatum and NAc core of Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice. Taken together, these results suggested that schizophrenia-associated Arhgap10 gene mutations result in morphological abnormality of neurons in the striatum and NAc, which may be associated with vulnerability of cognition to methamphetamine treatment.
AB - We recently found a significant association between exonic copy-number variations in the Rho GTPase activating protein 10 (Arhgap10) gene and schizophrenia in Japanese patients. Special attention was paid to one patient carrying a missense variant (p.S490P) in exon 17, which overlapped with an exonic deletion in the other allele. Accordingly, we generated a mouse model (Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice) carrying a missense variant and a coexisting frameshift mutation. We examined the spatiotemporal expression of Arhgap10 mRNA in the brain and found the highest expression levels in the cerebellum, striatum, and nucleus accumbens (NAc), followed by the frontal cortex in adolescent mice. The expression levels of phosphorylated myosin phosphatase-targeting subunit 1 and phosphorylated p21-activated kinases in the striatum and NAc were significantly increased in Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice compared with wild-type littermates. Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice exhibited a significant increase in neuronal complexity and spine density in the striatum and NAc. There was no difference in touchscreen-based visual discrimination learning between Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ and wild-type mice, but a significant impairment of visual discrimination was evident in Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice but not wild-type mice when they were treated with methamphetamine. The number of c-Fos-positive cells was significantly increased after methamphetamine treatment in the dorsomedial striatum and NAc core of Arhgap10 S490P/NHEJ mice. Taken together, these results suggested that schizophrenia-associated Arhgap10 gene mutations result in morphological abnormality of neurons in the striatum and NAc, which may be associated with vulnerability of cognition to methamphetamine treatment.
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U2 - 10.1186/s13041-021-00735-4
DO - 10.1186/s13041-021-00735-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 33482876
AN - SCOPUS:85099758282
SN - 1756-6606
VL - 14
JO - Molecular brain
JF - Molecular brain
IS - 1
M1 - 21
ER -