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Title: | Up-regulation of DRP-3 long isoform during the induction of neural progenitor cells by glutamate treatment in the ex vivo rat retina |
Authors: | Tokuda, Kazuhiro Kuramitsu, Yasuhiro Baron, Byron Kitagawa, Takao Tokuda, Nobuko Kobayashi, Daiki Nagayama, Megumi Araki, Norie Sonoda, Koh-Hei Nakamura, Kazuyuki |
Keywords: | Cell organelles -- Formation Neural stem cells -- Regeneration Nervous system Mass spectrometry Molecular biology |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. |
Citation: | Tokuda, K., Kuramitsu, Y., Byron, B., Kitagawa, T., Tokuda, N., Kobayashi, D., ... & Nakamura, K. (2015). Up-regulation of DRP-3 long isoform during the induction of neural progenitor cells by glutamate treatment in the ex vivo rat retina. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 463(4), 593-599. |
Abstract: | Glutamate has been shown to induce neural progenitor cells in the adult vertebrate retina. However, protein dynamics during progenitor cell induction by glutamate are not fully understood. To identify specific proteins involved in the process, we employed two-dimensional electrophoresis-based proteomics on glutamate untreated and treated retinal ex vivo sections. Rat retinal tissues were incubated with 1 mM glutamate for 1 h, followed by incubation in glutamate-free media for a total of 24 h. Consistent with prior reports, it was found that mitotic cells appeared in the outer nuclear layer without any histological damage. Immunohistological evaluations and immunoblotting confirmed the emergence of neuronal progenitor cells in the mature retina treated with glutamate. Proteomic analysis revealed the up-regulation of dihydropyrimidinase-related protein 3 (DRP-3), DRP-2 and stress-induced-phosphoprotein 1 (STIP1) during neural progenitor cell induction by glutamate. Moreover, mRNA expression of DRP-3, especially, its long isoform, robustly increased in the treated retina compared to that in the untreated retina. These results may indicate that glutamate induces neural progenitor cells in the mature rat retina by up-regulating the proteins which mediate cell mitosis and neurite growth. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/98584 |
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