Urine proteomic analysis of patients with schizophrenia

Abstract

We tried to explore the difference of urinary proteome between unmedicated schizophrenia patients and normal people through a small number of cases. The results showed that a total of 35 differential proteins were screened in the schizophrenia group compared with the healthy control group. Through random grouping evaluation, it has 91.4 % credibility. Fifteen of the differentially expressed proteins were reported to be related to schizophrenia mechanism, drug target or nervous system regulation. Among them, the aromatic amino acid decarboxylase related to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia can distinguish all 10 patients and 9 normal people with 100 % accuracy in this study, and the AUC value of 17 proteins is greater than or equal to 0.9. The biological pathways enriched by differentially expressed proteins include ephrin receptor signaling pathway, positive regulation of long-term potentiation (LTP), etc. This study shows that urine proteomics can reflect the difference between schizophrenia and healthy controls, and has the potential as a diagnostic marker.