title: Expression of rab GTP-binding proteins during oligodendrocyte differentiation in culture.
abstract: Oligodendrocytes (OLs) synthesize and transport vast amounts of proteins and lipids from the cell body to the morphologically and biochemically distinct domains of the myelin membrane. From our prediction that regulators of vesicular transport should be up-regulated at the time of myelin production, we hypothesized that the up-regulated and unidentified small GTPases found by Huber et al. [1994a] may be Rab proteins. We have analyzed the mRNA expression of rabs in OLs, and have detected rabs 10, 11b, 18, 24, 26, and 28 in addition to rabs that were found previously. Our data show that among the Rabs so far detected during differentiation, only Rabs 5a and 8a exhibited up-regulation in addition to the previously published Rab3a (Madison et al. [1999], J. Neurochem. 72:988-998). We discuss the limited extent of up-regulation of rabs in the context of the presumed necessity for an increase in Rab activity during myelin assembly.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Microbiology and Program in Neurological Sciences, Farmington, Connecticut 06030-3205, USA.
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Bouverat
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Krueger
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Coetzee
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bansal
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Pfeiffer
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009836:Oligodendroglia / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017385:Sequence Homology; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins