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Volume 17, Number 5, Issue of March 1, 1997 pp. 1539-1547
Copyright ©1997 Society for NeuroscienceFragile X Mental Retardation Protein: Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling and Association with Somatodendritic Ribosomes
Received Aug. 23, 1996; revised Nov. 11, 1996; accepted Dec. 9, 1996.
Yue Feng1, 2, Claire-Anne Gutekunst4, Derek E. Eberhart1, 2, Hong Yi4, Stephen T. Warren1, 2, 3, and Steven M. Hersch4 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of 2 Biochemistry, 3 Pediatrics, and 4 Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Fragile X syndrome, a leading cause of inherited mental retardation, is attributable to the unstable expansion of a CGG-repeat within the FMR1 gene that results in the absence of the encoded protein. The fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is a ribosome-associated RNA-binding protein of uncertain function that contains nuclear localization and export signals. We show here detailed cellular localization studies using both biochemical and immunocytochemical approaches. FMRP was highly expressed in neurons but not glia throughout the rat brain, as detected by light microscopy. Although certain structures, such as hippocampus, revealed a strong signal, the regional variation in staining intensity appeared to be related to neuron size and density. In human cell lines and mouse brain, FMRP co-fractionated primarily with polysomes and rough endoplasmic reticulum. Ultrastructural studies in rat brain revealed high levels of FMRP immunoreactivity in neuronal perikarya, where it is concentrated in regions rich in ribosomes, particularly near or between rough endoplasmic reticulum cisternae. Immunogold studies also provided evidence of nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of FMRP, which was localized in neuronal nucleoplasm and within nuclear pores. Moreover, labeling was observed in large- and small-caliber dendrites, in dendritic branch points, at the origins of spine necks, and in spine heads, all known locations of neuronal polysomes. Dendritic localization, which was confirmed by co-fractionation of FMRP with synaptosomal ribosomes, suggests a possible role of FMRP in the translation of proteins involved in dendritic structure or function and relevant for the mental retardation occurring in fragile X syndrome.
Key words: fragile X syndrome; mental retardation; ribosomes; RNA binding proteins; FMRP; fragile X mental retardation protein; trinucleotide repeats; dendritic protein synthesis
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