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Tomas del Olmo, Mathilde Decourcelle, Joel Bockaert, Philippe Marin, Carine Becamel
Abstract
Considered by the WHO as the world’s most disabling psychiatric disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD) severely affects patients’ quality of life. Treating patients with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the first-line treatment, improve symptoms but have many limitations, such as delayed clinical benefit and resistance to treatment. Recently, clinical evidences showed that hallucinogenic agonists of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, such as LSD or psilocybin, induce rapid and lasting antidepressant effects. 5-HT2A receptor activation is known to promote synaptic plasticity, but the molecular mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effects of its agonists still remain to be elucidated. Deciphering 5-HT2A downstream targets would provide insights to identify new actors involved in the antidepressant effects of hallucinogenic drugs. Phosphorylation events are key modulators of GPCRs signaling and play a central role in regulating synaptic plasticity. Thus, we investigated synaptic phosphoproteome induced upon 5-HT2A receptor stimulation by the DOI, a hallucinogenic agonist, in the prefrontal cortex of wild-type and htr2A-/- mice. We identified 14 phosphorylation sites specifically induced by 5-HT2A receptor’s activation. Among the phosphorylated identified proteins, several are involved in metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGLUR5) signalosome. Using primary cultures of cortical neurons, we demonstrated a functional interaction between the mGlu5 and 5-HT2A receptors. This work provides a better understanding of molecular mechanisms induced upon 5-HT2A activation by agonist with hallucinogenic property.