期刊
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
卷 70, 期 1, 页码 85-90出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.01.006
关键词
Growth cone; Neuronal growth-associated proteins (nGAPs); Cyclase-associating proteins (Cap1); Septin 2; F-actin
资金
- MEXT of Japan (KAKENHI) [17023019, 22240040, 20570187, 22700329]
- Research and Development Program for New Bio-industry Initiatives
- Agri-Health Translational Research Project
- Niigata University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23592556, 22240040, 22700329, 20570187, 17023019] Funding Source: KAKEN
The growth cone plays crucial roles in neural wiring, synapse formation, and axonal regeneration. Continuous rearrangement of cytoskeletal elements and targeting of transported vesicles to the plasma membrane are essential to growth cone motility; however, the proteins directly involved in these processes and their specific functions are not well established. We recently identified 17 proteins as functional marker proteins of the mammalian growth cone and as neuronal growth-associated proteins in rat cortical neurons (nGAPs; Nozumi et al., 2009). To determine whether these 17 proteins are growth cone markers in other neuronal cell types, we examined their expression and function in PC12D cells. We found that all 17 nGAPs were highly concentrated in the growth cones of PC12D cells, and that knockdown of all of them by RNAi reduced or inhibited neurite outgrowth, indicating that all of the 17 nGAPs may be general growth cone markers. Among them, eight proteins were shown to regulate the amount of F-actin in PC12D growth cones. Two of these nGAP that are cytoskeletal proteins. Cap1 and Sept2, increased the mean growth cone area and the mean neurite length by regulating the amount of F-actin; Sept2 also induced filopodial growth. Taken together, our data suggested that some of the nGAPs were generalized markers of the growth cone in multiple neuronal cell types and some of them, such as Cap1 and Sept2, regulated growth cone morphology through rearrangement of F-actin and thereby controlled neurite outgrowth. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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