Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Attenuated palmitoylation of serotonin receptor 5-HT1A affects receptor function and contributes to depression-like behaviors

  • Nataliya Gorinski,
  • Monika Bijata,
  • Sonal Prasad,
  • Alexander Wirth,
  • Dalia Abdel Galil,
  • Andre Zeug,
  • Daria Bazovkina,
  • Elena Kondaurova,
  • Elizabeth Kulikova,
  • Tatiana Ilchibaeva,
  • Monika Zareba-Koziol,
  • Francesco Papaleo,
  • Diego Scheggia,
  • Gaga Kochlamazashvili,
  • Alexander Dityatev,
  • Ian Smyth,
  • Adam Krzystyniak,
  • Jakub Wlodarczyk,
  • Diethelm W. Richter,
  • Tatyana Strekalova,
  • Stephan Sigrist,
  • Claudia Bang,
  • Lisa Hobuß,
  • Jan Fiedler,
  • Thomas Thum,
  • Vladimir S. Naumenko,
  • Ghanshyam Pandey,
  • Evgeni Ponimaskin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11876-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Palmitoylation is a post translational modification that regulates GPCR activity. Here the authors show that palmitoylation of 5-HT1AR by the palmitoyltransferase enzyme ZDHHC21 contributes to depression-like behaviour in rodents and might be implicated in major depressive disorder.