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Volume 17, Number 20,
Issue of October 15, 1997
pp. 7784-7795
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
The Brain Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan Brevican Associates
with Astrocytes Ensheathing Cerebellar Glomeruli and Inhibits Neurite
Outgrowth from Granule Neurons
Received May 5, 1997; revised July 18, 1997; accepted July 31, 1997.
Hidekazu Yamada,
Barbara Fredette,
Kenya Shitara,
Kazuki Hagihara,
Ryu Miura,
Barbara Ranscht,
William B. Stallcup, and
Yu Yamaguchi
The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
Brevican is a nervous system-specific chondroitin sulfate
proteoglycan that belongs to the aggrecan family and is one of the most
abundant chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in adult brain. To gain
insights into the role of brevican in brain development, we
investigated its spatiotemporal expression, cell surface binding, and
effects on neurite outgrowth, using rat cerebellar cortex as a model
system. Immunoreactivity of brevican occurs predominantly in the
protoplasmic islet in the internal granular layer after the third
postnatal week. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that brevican is
localized in close association with the surface of astrocytes that form
neuroglial sheaths of cerebellar glomeruli where incoming mossy fibers
interact with dendrites and axons from resident neurons. In
situ hybridization showed that brevican is synthesized by these
astrocytes themselves. In primary cultures of cerebellar astrocytes,
brevican is detected on the surface of these cells. Binding assays with
exogenously added brevican revealed that primary astrocytes and several
immortalized neural cell lines have cell surface binding sites for
brevican core protein. These cell surface brevican binding sites
recognize the C-terminal portion of the core protein and are
independent of cell surface hyaluronan. These results indicate that
brevican is synthesized by astrocytes and retained on their surface by
an interaction involving its core protein. Purified brevican inhibits
neurite outgrowth from cerebellar granule neurons in
vitro, an activity that requires chondroitin sulfate chains. We
suggest that brevican presented on the surface of neuroglial sheaths
may be controlling the infiltration of axons and dendrites into
maturing glomeruli.
Key words:
brevican;
chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan;
cerebellar
development;
glomerulus;
astrocytes;
neurite outgrowth
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