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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 4, 1516-1526, Copyright © 1984 by Society for Neuroscience

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3,4-Dimethyl-2,5-hexanedione impairs the axonal transport of neurofilament proteins

JW Griffin, DC Anthony, KE Fahnestock, PN Hoffman and DG Graham

Accumulations of neurofilaments are observed in a variety of neurological disorders, and their pathogenesis is a fundamental problem of neuropathology. 2,5-Hexanedione (HD) neurotoxicity provides an extensively studied model of axonal neurofibrillary changes in which the pathogenetic mechanisms have been conjectural. Chronic exposure to HD results in neurofilament-filled swellings in the distal regions of large axons of exposed humans and experimental animals. In this report we describe the changes produced by a potent analogue of HD, 3,4- dimethyl-2,5-hexanedione ( DMHD ), in slow axonal transport in the rat sciatic motor axons. Young rats received 0.6 mmol/kg of DMHD for 5 days before [35S]methionine was injected into the lumbar ventral horns. Slow axonal transport of the neurofilament proteins, tubulin, and selected slow component b (SCb) proteins in DMHD -treated animals was compared to the profiles found in age-matched control animals. DMHD administration reduced the rate of transport of the neurofilament proteins 75 to 90%, while tubulin and the SCb proteins were only modestly retarded. No alterations in electrophoretic mobilities of slowly transported proteins were found, nor were any proteins accelerated in transport. These findings were systematically compared to the changes produced by administration of beta,beta'- immino - dipropionitrile (IDPN) (2.0 gm/kg, i.p.), an agent known to impair neurofilament transport. Although slightly less severe, the changes produced by DMHD were nearly identical to those of IDPN. In correlative morphological studies, the neurofilamentous changes were also comparable. The results indicate that DMHD and IDPN share the capacity to interfere selectively with neurofilament transport and thereby share pathogenetic mechanisms. DMHD provides a new agent for exploration of the organization and transport of the neuronal cytoskeleton.

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