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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 11, 2453-2459, Copyright © 1991 by Society for Neuroscience

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Tau gene expression in rat sensory neurons during development and regeneration

MM Oblinger, A Argasinski, J Wong and KS Kosik
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Chicago Medical School, Illinois 60064.

In the mature rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG), only one tau isoform is expressed, and this protein (110 kDa in apparent molecular weight) is considerably larger in size than the predominant tau isoforms found in brain. The size of the mRNA encoding the "big" tau mRNA in DRG [approximately 8 kilobases (kb)] is also much larger than that of the major rat brain tau mRNA species (approximately 6 kb). In this study, we examined the pattern of normal developmental changes in expression of this high-molecular-weight (HMW) tau and its encoding mRNA and also determined how axonal injury of adult DRG neurons effected the expression of this gene. RNA blotting experiments revealed that higher levels of HMW tau mRNA were present in the DRG at early postnatal times than in the adult. Immunoblotting of total DRG protein using a monoclonal tau antibody revealed that the immature DRG (7 d postnatal) contained a 62-kDa tau isoform in addition to the HMW tau isoform that was expressed in the adult DRG. Neither of the tau isoforms expressed in the immature DRG was present to any significant extent in either immature or adult rat brain. To examine how tau expression changed in adult DRG neurons during regeneration, the sciatic nerves of rats were unilaterally crushed, and the L4 and L5 DRG were harvested 1, 7, and 14 d later.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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