title: Cell type-specific expression of Eps8 in the mouse hippocampus.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Epidermal growth factor receptor substrate 8 (Eps8) is a multifunctional protein that regulates actin cytoskeleton dynamics and architecture through its barbed-end capping and bundling activities. In cultured hippocampal neurons, Eps8 is enriched at dendritic spine heads and is required for spine morphogenesis; however, the detailed expression pattern of Eps8 in the hippocampus has not yet been explored.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here, we demonstrate that endogenous Eps8 protein is restrictively expressed in neurons (NeuN-positive), but not in glial cells (glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive) in area CA1 of the mouse hippocampus. Surprisingly, Eps8 immunoreactivity is rarely found in pyramidal cell somata, but is expressed predominantly in the somata and dendrites of 67 kDa isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase-expressing GABAergic interneurons in the stratum radiatum and at the border of stratum radiatum and lacunosum-moleculare of area CA1. On the basis of co-localizing markers, we found that Eps8 is not present in perisomatic inhibitory parvalbumin-expressing cells or calretinin-expressing interneurons. However, Eps8 is richly expressed in calbindin-expressing interneurons. Furthermore, Eps8 is also present in cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons, but not in somatostatin-expressing interneurons in area CA1 stratum pyramidale and stratum radiatum.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results reveal a previously unknown cell type-specific expression pattern of endogenous Eps8 protein in the mouse hippocampus and speculate that the role of Eps8 in controlling and orchestrating neuronal morphogenesis and structural plasticity might be more prominent in interneurons than in pyramidal cells of the hippocampus.
authors.forename: Chiung-Chun
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yun-Shen
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Cheng-Che
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan. richard@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Kuei-Sen
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D007395:Interneurons / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism*; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; C083430:Eps8 protein, mouse