title: Early decrease of the immunophilin FKBP 52 in the spinal cord of a transgenic model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
abstract: Expressions of immunophilin FKBP-12 and FKBP-52 were examined in the spinal cord of transgenic mice with an ALS-linked mutant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene. The immunoreactivity of FKBP-12 was present predominantly in the cytoplasm, but did not show a difference between age-matched wild type and transgenic (Tg) mice at 25 and 35 weeks. In contrast, the immunoreactivity of FKBP-52 was predominantly present in the nucleus, which progressively declined only in the Tg mice as early as an early presymptomatic stage at 25 weeks of age in the anterior horn neurons. The present result suggests that the downregulation of FKBP-52 may be involved in the pathogenesis in the early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. manabe@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Manabe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Warita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shiote
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Omori
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nagano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
mesh_terms: D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D002451:Cell Compartmentation / Q000235:genetics; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015536:Down-Regulation / Q000235:genetics*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000235:genetics; D000072105:Superoxide Dismutase-1; D022061:Tacrolimus Binding Protein 1A / Q000378:metabolism*; D022021:Tacrolimus Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: C000606291:Sod1 protein, mouse; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D000072105:Superoxide Dismutase-1; D022061:Tacrolimus Binding Protein 1A; D022021:Tacrolimus Binding Proteins; C403485:tacrolimus binding protein 4