Dynamics of bovine glial fibrillary acidic protein phosphorylation.
Recently, the dynamic features of the intermediate filaments (IF) have been revealed. The effect of phosphorylation on the dynamics of bovine glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), the astroglial IF, was studied in vitro with fluorescently labeled GFAP. Soluble GFAP in low ionic strength buffer was rapidly and fully phosphorylated to be used as phosphorylated GFAP. Assembly of GFAP was observed to be inhibited in proportion to the extent of phosphorylation by mixing phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated GFAP at various ratios, and phosphorylated GFAP could not be assembled with non-phosphorylated GFAP into filaments at all. Furthermore, the subunit exchange was suppressed in proportion to the extent of phosphorylation. Phosphorylation affects the dynamic equilibrium of GFAP, and contributes to breaking down GFAP frameworks in mitotic glial cells.
Nakamura
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Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
Takeda
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Nishimura
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D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D019793:Fluorescein; D005452:Fluoresceins; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008274:Magnesium; D010766:Phosphorylation; D012235:Rhodamines; D012995:Solubility
D005452:Fluoresceins; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein; D012235:Rhodamines; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; D008274:Magnesium; D019793:Fluorescein