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4. Expression of Dp71 in Müller glial cells: a comparison with utrophin- and dystrophin-associated proteins

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Claudepierre, T., Mornet, D., Pannicke, T., Forster, V., Dalloz, C., Bolanos, F., José-Alain Sahel, Reichenbach, A., Rendon, A., Claudepierre, Thomas, and Université de Lorraine (UL)

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MESH: DNA Primers, musculoskeletal diseases, Cytoplasm, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, MESH: Gene Expression, Utrophin, MESH: Cytoskeletal Proteins, MESH: Rats, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Blotting, Western, Gene Expression, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Dystrophin, MESH: Utrophin, MESH: Dystrophin, MESH: Eye Proteins, Animals, MESH: Blotting, Western, MESH: Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect, MESH: Animals, RNA, Messenger, Rats, Wistar, Eye Proteins, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect, Cells, Cultured, DNA Primers, MESH: RNA, Messenger, MESH: Cytoplasm, Membrane Proteins, MESH: Polymerase Chain Reaction, MESH: Rats, Wistar, Rats, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], Cytoskeletal Proteins, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, MESH: Neuroglia, MESH: Membrane Proteins, Neuroglia, MESH: Cells, Cultured, MESH: Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Abstract

The abnormal retinal electrophysiology observed in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been attributed to an altered expression of C-terminal products of the dystrophin gene. It has been shown that Dp260 is expressed by photoreceptor cells, whereas Dp71 is present in glial cells. The present study was intended to identify all known members of the dystrophin superfamily and their associated proteins expressed in Müller glial cells (MGC).The expression of the proteins and of their messengers was studied in MGC cultures from 2-week-old rats, by polymerase chain reaction amplification, Western blot analysis, and immunocytochemistry. An immunocytochemical localization of the proteins was also performed on enzymatically dissociated Müller cells from adult rat retinas.MGCs expressed a spliced isoform of Dp71 called Dp71f, as well as utrophin, beta-dystroglycan, delta and gamma-sarcoglycans, and alpha1-syntrophin. In morphologically preserved differentiated Müller cells, Dp71f was localized in clusters, utrophin was diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm, and dystrophin-associated proteins (DAPs) were membrane-bound. Most of these proteins were preferentially expressed in the vitread portion of the cells. Dp71f and utrophin expression was restricted to MGCs, whereas all DAPs were also present in other retinal cell types.The exclusive localization of Dp71f and utrophin in MGCs suggests that these proteins, together with DAPs, play a specific role in these cells. Further knowledge of possible interactions of these proteins within a functional complex may provide new insights into the molecular basis of the electroretinogram phenotype in DMD.

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2000

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