Spatiotemporal Expression of Dexras1 After Spinal Cord Transection in Rats

Overview

Journal Cell Mol Neurobiol

Publisher Springer

Specialties Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Neurology

Date 2008 Jan 26

PMID 18219571

Citations 4

Authors

Xin Li

Chun Cheng

Min Fei

Shangfeng Gao

Shuqiong Niu

Mengling Chen

Yonghua Liu

Zhiqin Guo

Haibo Wang

Jian Zhao

Xiaowei Yu

Aiguo Shen

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Abstract

Dexras1, a brain-enriched member of the Ras subfamily of GTPases, as a novel physiologic nitric oxide (NO) effector, anchor neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) that increased after spinal cord injury (SCI), to specific targets to enhance NO signaling, and is strongly and rapidly induced during treatment with dexamethasone. It is unknown how the central nervous system (CNS) trauma affects the expression of Dexras1. Here we used spinal cord transection (SCT) model to detect expression of Dexras1 at mRNA and protein level in spinal cord homogenates by real-time PCR and Western blot analysis. The results showed that Dexras1 mRNA upregulated at 3 day, 5 day, and 7 day significantly (P < 0.05) that was consistent with the protein level except at 7 day. Immunofluorescence revealed that both neurons and glial cells showed Dexras1 immunoreactivivty (IR) around SCT site, but the proportion is different. Importantly, injury-induced expression of Dexras1 was co-labeled by caspase-3 (apoptotic marker) and Tau-1 (marker for pathological oligodendrocyte). Furthermore, colocalization of Dexras1, carboxy-terminal PSD95/DLG/ZO-1 (PDZ) ligand of nNOS (CAPON) and nNOS was observed in neurons and glial cells, supporting the existence of ternary complexes in this model. Thus, the results that the transient high expression of Dexras1 which localized in apoptotic neurons and pathological oligodendrocytes might provide new insight into the secondary response after SCT.

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