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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 7, 2651-2663, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Neuroscience
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Temporal and topographic relationships between the phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated epitopes of the 200 kDa neurofilament protein during development in vitro
GA Foster, D Dahl and VM Lee
The ontogeny of the triplet of neurofilament proteins (NF), and the phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated derivatives of the 200 kDa neurofilament subunit (NF200P, NF200D) have been investigated in dissociated cultures prepared from gestational day 13 mouse spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia (DRG), using immunocytochemical methods. Neurofilament-like immunoreactivity (NF-LI), as detected with antiserum, occurred in the somata and processes of all neurons from day 1 in culture, and reached a maximum density and intensity at days 16- 20. The first labeling of neurons by NF200D antibodies occurred at day 3, and was confined to DRG cells. Only a small, proximal portion of the axons from these cells exhibited NF200D-LI. At later stages, however, this immunoreactive region extended to include progressively more distal parts. Spinal cord neurons first became NF200D-positive at day 9; however, many NF200D-negative neurons still remained in mature cultures. Also at these later stages, some axons were stained for less than their full length with the NF200D antibody. NF200P-LI was first apparent at day 17, in smooth and varicose axons and only where NF-LI was also present. In contrast, NF200P- and NF200D-LI were usually localized in mutually exclusive populations of axons and other fibers. In some, predominantly thick axons, however, the proximal segment was NF200D-positive, whereas the distal part exhibited solely NF200P-LI. In contrast to NF70 and NF150, the 200 kDa neurofilament is dilatory in its appearance in most neurons in culture. The development of the nonphosphoderivative precedes that of the phosphoderivative, and the respective ontogenies are specific for different neuronal types. Posttranslational phosphorylation of NF200 seems therefore to occur at a later stage of development than the induction of NF200 itself, while there is a wide variation in its rates of phosphorylation during passage down different axons.
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