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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 10, 2176-2189, Copyright © 1990 by Society for Neuroscience

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Basic fibroblast growth factor: receptor-mediated internalization, metabolism, and anterograde axonal transport in retinal ganglion cells

IA Ferguson, JB Schweitzer and EM Johnson Jr
Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) was radiolabeled and used in axonal transport studies to determine whether certain neuronal populations express functional receptors for bFGF. Unlike 125I-NGF, 125I-bFGF was not retrogradely transported in the adult rat sciatic nerve or from iris to trigeminal ganglion or superior cervical ganglion. However, after intraocular injection of 125I-bFGF into the posterior chamber of the eye of adult rats, radioactivity was detected within the retinal ganglion cell projections. This radioactivity was localized to the ipsilateral optic nerve and in the contralateral lateral geniculate body and the contralateral superior colliculus by using autoradiographic techniques. Direct measurement of the radioactivity in dissected brain regions was used to study the process of 125I-bFGF uptake and transport by retinal ganglion cells. The uptake and transport were specific for biologically active bFGF since neither denatured, biologically inactive 125I-bFGF nor 125I-NGF was taken up and transported. The uptake and transport of 125I-bFGF were saturable phenomena since they were blocked in the presence of excess, unlabeled bFGF. Wheat germ agglutinin, but not heparinase, blocked uptake and transport of 125I-bFGF, a finding that is consistent with the uptake being mediated by high-affinity bFGF receptors. Radioactivity from 125I- bFGF was transported in retinal ganglion cell axons in an anterograde direction at a maximum rate in excess of 1.7 mm/hr. No specific retrograde transport of bFGF to the retina was detected after 125I-bFGF was injected into the superior colliculus. The radioactivity from 125I- bFGF that accumulated in the superior colliculus was lost from this tissue with a half-life of about 22 hr. Autoradiography of proteins separated by SDS-PAGE demonstrated that 125I-bFGF was not substantially degraded in the retina after internalization within retinal ganglion cells. During anterograde transport, however, 125I-bFGF underwent limited proteolytic cleavage resulting in 3 prominent 125I-bFGF derivatives of molecular weights greater than 7000 Da. Although these were the major radioactive species recovered from the superior colliculus after intraocular injection, some intact 125I-bFGF was also detected within the innervated target. These results indicate that retinal ganglion cells express high-affinity receptors for bFGF, that these receptors mediate the internalization of bFGF, that internalized bFGF undergoes limited proteolytic cleavage, and that bFGF and its derivatives are anterogradely transported to the lateral geniculate body and the superior colliculus. These data raise the possibility that bFGF or its derivatives may act as an anterograde trophic factor in the visual system, a system that is known to undergo anterograde transneuronal cell death.

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