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- Assis-de-Lemos 2021 Biosci Rep + (Dopamine signaling has numerous roles duri … Dopamine signaling has numerous roles during brain development. In addition, alterations in dopamine signaling may be also involved in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders. Neurodevelopment is modulated in multiple steps by reactive oxygen species (ROS), byproducts of oxidative metabolism which are signaling factors involved in proliferation, differentiation, and migration. Hexokinase (HK), when associated with the mitochondria (mt-HK), is a potent modulator of the generation of mitochondrial ROS in the brain. In this study we investigated whether dopamine could affect both the activity and redox function of mt-HK in human neural progenitor cells (NPCs). We found that dopamine signaling via D<sub>1</sub>R decreases mt-HK activity and impairs ROS modulation, which is followed by an expressive release of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> and impairment in calcium handling by the mitochondria. Nevertheless, mitochondrial respiration is not affected, suggesting specificity for dopamine on mt-HK function. In neural stem cells (NSCs) derived from iPSCs of schizophrenia patients, mt-HK is unable to decrease mitochondrial ROS, in contrast to NSCs derived from healthy individuals. Our data point to mitochondrial hexokinase as a novel target of dopaminergic signaling, as well as a redox modulator in human neural progenitor cells, which may be relevant to the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia. to the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia.)
