Abstract
Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (PV-INs) are highly vulnerable to stressors and have been implicated in many neuro-psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum disorder, and bipolar disorder. We examined the literature about the current knowledge of the physiological properties of PV-INs and gathered results from diverse research areas to provide insight into their vulnerability to stressors. Among the factors that confer heightened vulnerability are the substantial energy requirements, a strong excitatory drive, and a unique developmental trajectory. Understanding these stressors and elaborating on their impact on PV-IN health is a step toward develo** therapies to protect these neurons in various disease states and to retain critical brain functions.
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Parvalbumin interneurons are implicated in a variety of neuro-psychiatric disease states
Injury to, or dysfunction of, parvalbumin inhibitory interneurons (PV-INs) has been proposed to contribute to the pathophysiology of several important neuro-psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), bipolar disorder (BPD), various neurodegenerative diseases, and even aging-related cognitive changes. In this review, we will briefly summarize the literature implicating PV-IN deficits in neuro-psychiatric conditions and discuss specific properties of these neurons that may make them selectively vulnerable to multiple stressors, including the complex developmental pathways required for normal development of PV-INs and circuits. Emerging literature suggests that approaches to preserve function of these unique inhibitory neurons have benefits for both acute and chronic brain disorders.
Extensive accounts in the literature point to PV-IN-related changes in individuals with schizophrenia [1,2,3,4], a finding that is supported by various animal models that recapitulate aspects of the disease [5,6,7] (Table 1). In schizophrenia, lower levels of PVALB mRNA, the gene coding for PV, were seen in the hippocampus and layer 4 of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which might be partially explained by DNA hypermethylation [1, 8]. Reductions in the number of PV-INs were reported in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and subicular areas [1, 9,10,11]. Furthermore, individuals with schizophrenia have a lower density of excitatory synapses on PV-INs [12] and exhibit alterations in gamma oscillations during a working memory task [13]. Animal models that mimic schizophrenia replicate the loss of PV-INs in the hippocampus [6, 14, 15], and show a loss of PV fluorescence per cell in prelimbic regions [16]. Interestingly, early intervention during the prepubertal period might prevent loss of PV-INs, as shown in the methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) rat model of PV-IN loss in the ventral hippocampus [17]. While these findings point to a pathology in PV-INs, they cannot differentiate between loss of neurons or loss of PV expression. Some human and animal model data suggest that formerly PV-INs are still present but cease to express PV, though a definitive conclusion cannot be drawn at this point [7, 18,19,20].
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is also associated with changes in fast-spiking interneurons (Table 2). Transgenic mice with AD-like pathology were found to have reduced gamma power that, in one model, precedes cognitive impairment and amyloid plaque formation [21, 22]. Interestingly, amyloid plaques were reduced when hippocampal PV-INs artificially produced gamma oscillations in optogenetics paradigms [21]. Theta–gamma oscillation phase-amplitude cross-frequency coupling was impaired prior to neuronal loss or maximum tau pathology in a tau seeding model with AD-like pathology [23]. Evoked gamma oscillations to auditory stimuli were also disrupted in this model [23]. Separately, a voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav1.1) that is largely found on axons of PV-INs was decreased in a mouse model with amyloid pathology, and in AD patients [24,25,26]. Restoration of the levels of this voltage-gated sodium channel increased gamma oscillations, while memory deficits and premature deaths decreased [26]. Furthermore, abnormalities in the default mode network, which is regulated in part by PV-INs [27], have been observed in AD patients [28,29,30,31,32].
Reports of changes of PV-INs in AD are not without controversy. For example, decreases in the number of PV-INs in the hippocampus were observed in two mouse models of AD [33, 34], while an increase in hippocampal PV immunoreactivity was observed in another [35], and no change in the number of hippocampal PV-positive interneurons was observed in yet another model [36]. These contradicting observations may be explained by the different mouse models used in each study. In AD patients, however, a decrease in PV-INs was reported in the dentate gyrus, and an increase in PV-INs was reported in the piriform cortex [34, 37, 38]. The different findings reported in each study could be due to the different brain regions examined. Indeed, it would be surprising to find that PV-IN densities in disease are uniform across every brain region given that fast-spiking interneurons have different functions in different brain areas.
ASD shares many overlaps with schizophrenia, not just on a clinical scale, but also with similar PV-IN abnormalities [39]. The Df(16)A± transgenic mouse and the LgDel(±) mouse, both of which model the 22q11.2 deletion in humans [5, 40,41,42,43], the contactin associated protein 2 mouse [44,45,46], the neurexin transgene model [47], Shank models [20, 48,49,50], and platelet-derived growth factor receptor-beta (Pdgfrb) knockout mouse [51, 52] are examples of models for both ASD and schizophrenia, which have large effects on PV-IN function. In other mouse models of ASD, a reduction in PV-INs or a decrease in PV immunoreactivity has been reported [20]. Concurrently, PV knockout mice display behavioral phenotypes that resemble core behavioral phenotypes found in humans with ASD [53]. One of the best described ASD models, knockout of the gene responsible for Rett syndrome, methyl CpG binding protein 2 (Mecp2), shows repetitive behaviors and stereotypies even if the gene is selectively removed from INs only [54].
Schizophrenia also shares significant overlap with BPD [55, 56], including PV-IN pathology. Mouse models relevant for both disorders, including the disrupted in schizophrenia 1 gene (Disc1) [57,58,59,60,61], or brain derived neurotrophic factor (Bdnf) [62], show abnormal PV-IN function ranging from migration deficits to reduction in IN number.
But schizophrenia, AD, ASD, and BPD are not the only diseases for which PV-INs seem to play an important role. Epilepsy [63, 64] and prion disease [65] are among other disorders that are associated with alterations in PV-INs. There is therefore ample evidence that PV-INs are vital for brain function and intricately linked to brain malfunction.
Characteristics of PV-INs
Inhibitory GABAergic interneurons can be classified based on their co-expression of a variety of small proteins that principally function as neuromodulators or as calcium (Ca2+)-binding proteins [66]. The Ca2+-binding protein PV (“small albumin”), which is approximately 12 kD in humans, defines one class of GABAergic interneurons. PV increases the rate of Ca2+ sequestration, reduces presynaptic Ca2+ levels, modulates short-term synaptic plasticity, and prevents cumulative facilitation (Fig. 1), [67, 68]. Since PV rapidly sequesters Ca2+, it strongly attenuates the Ca2+-activated potassium conductance responsible for post-spike hyperpolarization, which explains in part why PV-INs repolarize faster and fire faster than other neurons. For this reason, the characteristic phenotype of PV-INs is fast-spiking action potentials at high energetic costs [66].
PV-INs in the cortex are highly interconnected via electrical and chemical synapses [69]. These networks are associated with plasticity from early life throughout adulthood [70,71,72,73]. PV-INs have roles in both feedforward and feedback inhibition, regulation of sensory responses, and in learning and plasticity [66]. Individual PV-INs contact nearly every local pyramidal neuron which enables them to synchronize networks [74]. They help to create and maintain gamma oscillations, which are high-frequency waves between 20 and 100 Hz [66, 75]. Stimulation of PV-INs leads to an increase in gamma oscillation patterns, while inhibition of PV-INs or downregulation of PV at cortical synapses reduces gamma oscillations [76,77,78]. Gamma oscillations in humans are also associated with increased working memory load [79]. Animal studies suggest that a key mechanism of neural oscillations is through glutamatergic regulation. Indeed, PV-INs receive the greatest excitatory input of any population of inhibitory neurons in the cortex, which puts them under intense stress [16, 80].
PV-INs have unique energy requirements that render them vulnerable to many stressors
PV-INs have extraordinary energy requirements to support a high metabolic activity and to protect against significant glutamatergic stress [16, 80, 81]. The large amounts of ATP needed to sustain gamma oscillations are supplied by a high density of mitochondria [81,82,83]. Studies have shown that the rate of oxygen consumption during hippocampal gamma oscillations can be equivalent to the rate of oxygen spent during a seizure [83, 84]. A substantial quantity of cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase supports the high bioenergetic needs of PV-INs [81, 85], but comes at a price as cytochrome c is also central to the induction of apoptosis [86].
The high metabolic activity of PV-INs is not only explained by their physiological characteristics, but by their structural characteristics as well. In CA1 of the rat hippocampus, PV-INs have larger dendritic trees and thicker dendrites than calbindin- or calretinin-positive interneurons [80]. PV-INs have a higher density of inputs, more excitatory and inhibitory synapses, and a higher ratio of inhibitory to excitatory inputs than calbindin- and calretinin-positive interneurons [80]. In addition, PV-INs connect to many principal neurons [74, 75, 87, 88]. They synchronize principal neuron activity [89] and they have a great impact on the energy-intensive processes of information selection and noise removal [66, 90]. In the MAM model of schizophrenia, reduced expression of PV-INs has been correlated with a reduction in coordinated neuronal activity during task performance in rats [6]. This observation provides a hypothesis about how loss of PV-INs might contribute to behavioral and clinical observations in neuro-psychiatric disorders.
The energy requirements of PV-INs make them highly susceptible to the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (a component of, and a proxy for, a decrease in mitochondrial function), and to metabolic and oxidative stress that accompanies disease states [81, 91]. In rodent models that recapitulate aspects of brain disorders, higher oxidative stress consistently correlates with decreased PV-positive cortical interneurons [92, 93]. In the hippocampus, oxidative stress was associated with a decrease in PV-INs as well as a reduction in gamma oscillations [94]. Conversely, in animal models where no change in oxidative stress was observed, PV-positive interneuron number was not changed [92].
The energy requirements of PV-INs also make them highly susceptible to inflammation. For example, the NMDA receptor antagonist ketamine, a pro-inflammatory stimulus, injures PV-INs in vitro and in vivo [16, 95]. This injury is connected to IL-6-mediated Nox2-dependent NADPH oxidase activation and production of superoxide [16, 95]. IL-6 is likely signaling through STAT3 [96]. STAT3 can directly regulate mitochondrial function [97, 98], and Nox2 can modulate mitochondrial activity [99,100,101]. Since PV-INs have many mitochondria, inflammatory stimuli that negatively affect mitochondrial activity and function would negatively affect PV-IN health.
Excitatory drive onto parvalbumin interneurons contributes to their vulnerability
The strong excitatory drive of PV-INs is mediated by Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors as well as NMDA receptors [102,103,104]. While NMDA receptors are the primary source of dendritic Ca2+ in many cell types, in PV-INs dendritic Ca2+ enters through both NMDA receptors and Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors (Fig. 1) [105]. PV-INs have faster Ca2+ influx kinetics than other cell types in part because of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors [105]. Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors are required for long-term potentiation in PV-INs, as excitatory post-synaptic currents are reduced when Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors are blocked [106, 107].
While Ca2+ homeostasis is an important factor in regulating mitochondrial activity and function, Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors in PV-INs also lead to vulnerability [108]. Rapid Ca2+ influx through AMPA receptors can lead to a pathological accumulation in the mitochondrial matrix, particularly if PV levels are reduced (Fig. 1b) [109]. If the pathological threshold is crossed, the electron transfer chain is disrupted, reactive oxygen species accumulate, the permeability transition pore opens, the outer mitochondrial membrane ruptures, cytochrome c is released, and an apoptotic cell death program is activated [86, 109]. The combination of large Ca2+ waves, high mitochondrial density, and dependence on uninterrupted ATP supply creates a delicate balance in PV-INs that can rapidly turn into pathology. Even slower, consistent Ca2+ influx through Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors can be damaging via activation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase and generation of nitric oxide and resultant activation of Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1), (Fig. 1b), [109, 110]. PARP-1 leads to the release of apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) via a nuclear signal that proliferates to mitochondria [110].
Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors are a major entry point of zinc [111,112,113]. Like Ca2+ influx, zinc influx into neurons leads to the generation of nitric oxide and subsequent activation of PARP-1 and cell death [114]. Zinc is more potent than Ca2+ in its ability to disrupt mitochondrial function [109]. Unlike Ca2+, the influx of zinc through Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors can lead to a long-lasting production of superoxide in mitochondria [112]. At equivalent concentrations, zinc induces a larger increase in cytochrome c and AIF than Ca2+ [115]. Consistent with the notion that the presence of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors contributes to the vulnerability of PV-INs, blocking of these receptors attenuates cortical neuron death in an in vitro model of traumatic brain injury; attenuates hippocampal pyramidal neuron loss in a mouse hippocampal slice model of oxygen-glucose deprivation; and attenuates retinal ganglion cells loss in a rat model of glaucoma [111, 116, 117].
The majority of PV-INs in humans and monkeys express NMDA receptors [118, 119]. The ratio of GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors to GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors is five times higher in cultured PV-INs than in pyramidal neurons, and GluN2A-containing NMDA receptor activity is critical for the preservation of PV immunoreactivity in cultured PV-INs [120]. Importantly, NMDA receptors in PV-INs are regulating gamma rhythms and cognitive behaviors [121].
The dependence of most PV-INs on NMDA receptor function presents another vulnerability. In schizophrenia, NMDA receptors are believed to be hypo-functioning, and the inhibition of NMDA receptors recapitulates many of the symptoms of schizophrenia [104, 122, 123]. NMDA receptor antagonists, such as ketamine and phencyclidine, can transiently reproduce key clinical features of schizophrenia, and are believed to reduce PV-IN excitation [123]. Working memory is notably impaired in schizophrenia and in other neuro-psychiatric diseases likely due to the expected change in gamma oscillation power resulting from disinhibition [123], in line with transgenic mouse studies in which NMDA receptors are genetically removed in PV-INs [121]. Recent evidence in rats suggests that working memory is dependent on GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors in the prefrontal cortex [124]. Administration of a GluN2A-selective NMDA receptor antagonist caused an abnormal increase in gamma power, while administration of NMDA receptor antagonists that are selective for other subunits resulted in little-to-no change [125]. Human brains from individuals with schizophrenia have a lower density of GluN2A-expressing PV-INs in layers 3 and 4 of prefrontal cortex compared to the brains from a control group [126]. When this evidence is combined with the finding that gamma oscillations correlate with working memory load in humans, it is likely that the decreases in working memory that are observed in diseases such as schizophrenia are in part mediated by the decrease in glutamatergic inputs through GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors onto PV-INs.
The developmental trajectory of interneurons introduces unique vulnerabilities
Like other interneurons, PV-INs are derived from progenitor cells in the embryonic ganglionic eminences of the ventral telencephalon of the develo** brain (Fig. 2). Their ‘parvalbumin’ fate seems to be established at their origin, as the progenitors leave the cell cycle [127, 128]. Once postmitotic, cells migrate tangentially toward cortical areas and then radially into predetermined cortical layers (Fig. 2, steps 1a, 1b, and 2), [129, 130]. During migration, cell-intrinsic programs and external cues must be coordinated in a time- and location-sensitive manner [131]. Externally, an exquisite coordination of attractant and repellant guidance factors transmitted from various brain regions guide migrating neurons to their ultimate destination [132]. Intracellularly, an expression of responsive receptors on the neurons must be timed with the transmission of guidance factors from remote brain tissues. These receptors activate intraneuronal signaling cascades that dynamically remodel microtubule and actin cytoskeletal components to extend and retract processes that move the cells toward their destination [133]. As interneurons assume their final position within a specific region and layer of the cortex and hippocampus, they have to switch to a molecular program designed to establish axon pathfinding and synaptic connections with local excitatory neurons born in the subventricular zone, and with other interneurons that had migrated from areas deep inside the develo** brain (Fig. 2, steps 3 and 4), [129, 130]. PV-INs colonize the cortex in an inside-out fashion, by which layers VI/V are colonized first, followed by layers IV, III, and II [134].
Migration of interneurons and incorporation into the local environment constitute times of high vulnerability. During mouse brain development, the fraction of GABAergic interneurons to glutamatergic neurons is constant from early corticogenesis throughout brain development and into the adult brain [135]. Any disruption during migration cannot only leave interneurons in the wrong location, as has been shown in schizophrenia [136,137,138], but also have permanent consequences on the ratio of specific neuron types. The characteristics of the large number of interneuron types with diverse transcriptional signatures are not random but rather predetermined at the earliest developmental stages [127, 128, 130]. Such an early determination of fate would limit their ability for self-renewal or de-differentiation if damaged during migration. The hippocampus is the farthest brain area reached by interneurons, and as such has the longest developmentally open window, with the highest likelihood to be affected by deleterious impacts on migration [139]. The preponderance of interneuron pathologies in the hippocampus and adjacent cortical areas, such as the interneuron pathologies observed in schizophrenia and BPD, might be, at least in part, a reflection of this extended developmental vulnerability [1, 9, 122, 140,141,142].
Taken together, for cells to find their proper location and integrate into the local neuronal network, intrinsic programs that determine interneuron cell-type, timing, and response to guidance factors, cytoskeletal reorganization, migration, and connection to synaptic partners, have to be coordinated with external cues, which themselves are subject to intrinsic programs in distant cell types. It seems almost beyond a miracle of nature for this process to work correctly, and yet in most cases it succeeds. While there likely is some space to correct for minor variabilities, it seems reasonable to assume that the process also has some vulnerabilities.
Conclusion and future directions
PV-INs are important for proper brain function. Their ontogeny and physiological properties render them uniquely susceptible to environmental disturbances. This vulnerability contributes to their role in numerous brain disorders. PV-INs are implicated in neurodevelopmental diseases such as early-onset psychiatric disorders and in neurodegenerative diseases such as AD, demonstrating the vulnerability of this interneuron subset throughout life. Therapeutic strategies to protect PV-INs from injury should be explored to prevent and/or lessen their role in the various brain disorders in which dysfunctional PV-INs are implicated. For example, recently discovered GluN2A-selective NMDA receptor positive allosteric modulators could help to restore normal gamma oscillations and improve working memory in patients with schizophrenia, as these compounds should selectively target PV-INs [143, 144].
New approaches should also be explored to better understand PV-IN vulnerability. Human PV-INs can be derived from induced pluripotent stem cells to examine metabolism, genetics, physiology, and responses to stress. Novel mouse models, including models that label PV-INs with tdTomato such as [145], can be exposed to various conditions to differentiate between loss of neurons and loss of PV expression. Imaging modalities, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, can be used to observe the integrity of PV-IN-containing circuits in forebrain and hippocampus in humans with disease compared to healthy controls. We will soon have a greater understanding of PV-IN vulnerability because of the novel tools at our disposal.
Funding and disclosure
This work is supported by MH064913 (JBR), AG033679 (LLD), AG058856 (LLD), VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) (LLD), and Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (LLD). The authors have nothing to disclose.
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Ruden, J.B., Dugan, L.L. & Konradi, C. Parvalbumin interneuron vulnerability and brain disorders. Neuropsychopharmacol. 46, 279–287 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-0778-9
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