title: Nonspecific association of 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase with the rat forebrain postsynaptic density fraction.
abstract: The 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (CNP), a protein of unknown function in vivo, is abundantly expressed in myelinating glia in two isoforms, CNP1 and CNP2. In this study, immunoblot analysis showed that CNP1 is the major isoform in adult forebrain, and that both isoforms are included in the postsynaptic density (PSD) fraction and tyrosine-phosphorylated at the basal level. However, subcellular distribution and detergent extraction data showed that CNP is nonspecifically associated with the PSD fraction. Immunocytochemistry revealed that CNP is detected, in a weak but punctate pattern, in dissociated rat hippocampal neurons of 3 days to 2 weeks in vitro. The CNP-positive punctae were distributed throughout soma and dendrites, and distinct from PSD95-positive ones. Immunoblot analysis indicated that CNP is also expressed in neuronal stem cell lines, HiB5 and F11. Interestingly, in addition to the known two isoforms, a new CNP isoform of MW 45 kDa was expressed in these cell lines and was the major type of isoform in F11 cells. Taken together, our data suggest that CNP is expressed in the early stage of in vitro development and nonspecifically included in the adult rat PSD fraction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea.
authors.forename: Sun-Jung
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Jae Seob
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Seung Chul
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: IngNyol
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Bok Hyun
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Yunhee
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim Kwon
authors.forename: Haeyoung
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suh-Kim
authors.forename: Il Soo
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Moon
mesh_terms: D015087:2',3'-Cyclic-Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D019000:Phosphotyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D016548:Prosencephalon / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C033652:postsynaptic density proteins; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D015087:2',3'-Cyclic-Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases