title: Activation of the canonical Wnt pathway by the antipsychotics haloperidol and clozapine involves dishevelled-3.
abstract: Protein kinase B (Akt), glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) and members of the Wnt signal transduction pathway were recently found to be altered in schizophrenia and targeted by antipsychotic drugs. In the current study, selected Wnt signalling proteins were investigated to determine if they are altered by the antipsychotics clozapine or haloperidol in the rat prefrontal cortex. Pheochromocytoma (PC12) and neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells were also used to elucidate how antipsychotics generated the pattern of changes observed in vivo. Western blotting (WB) revealed that treatment with haloperidol or clozapine caused an up-regulation of Wnt-5a, dishevelled-3, Axin, total and phosphorylated GSK-3 and beta-catenin protein levels. Treatment of PC12 and SH-SY5Y cells with a variety of pharmacological agents as well as the over-expression of several Wnt related proteins failed to mimic the pattern observed in vivo following antipsychotic treatment. However, the over-expression of dishevelled-3 nearly perfectly duplicated the changes observed in vivo. Immunoprecipitations (IP) conducted using protein isolated from the rat prefrontal cortex indicated that dishevelled-3 is associated with the D2 dopamine receptor thereby suggesting that antipsychotics may act on dishevelled-3 via D2 dopamine receptors to initiate a cascade of downstream changes involving Axin, GSK-3 and beta-catenin that may help to alleviate psychosis in schizophrenic patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Laurie P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.forename: Dariush
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Honardoust
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mouyal
authors.forename: Nagalingam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rajakumar
authors.forename: Walter J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Rushlow
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D018692:Antimanic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002460:Cell Line; D003024:Clozapine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000072261:Dishevelled Proteins; D038362:Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D047468:Immunoprecipitation; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018021:Lithium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D016716:PC12 Cells; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D014162:Transfection; D051153:Wnt Proteins / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D018692:Antimanic Agents; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; C000606584:DVL3 protein, human; D000072261:Dishevelled Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D051153:Wnt Proteins; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D038362:Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3; D018021:Lithium Chloride; D003024:Clozapine; D006220:Haloperidol