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Volume 17, Number 15, Issue of August 1, 1997 pp. 5807-5819
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience

Microtubule Transport from the Cell Body into the Axons of Growing Neurons

Received April 3, 1997; revised May 5, 1997; accepted May 9, 1997.

Theresa Slaughter, Jun Wang, and Mark M. Black

Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140

The present studies test the hypothesis that microtubules (MTs) are transported from the cell body into the axons of growing neurons. Dissociated sympathetic neurons were cultured using conditions that allow us to control the initiation of axon outgrowth. Neurons were injected with biotin-labeled tubulin (Bt-tub) and then stimulated to extend axons. The newly formed axons were then examined using immunofluorescence procedures for MTs with or without Bt-tub. Because the Bt-tub is fully assembly competent, all MTs that assemble after injection will contain Bt-tub. However, MTs that exist in the neuron at the time of injection and persist during the subsequent incubation will not contain Bt-tub. Because the neurons were injected before extending axons, MTs without Bt-tub are initially localized to the cell body. We specifically determined whether these MTs appeared in the newly formed axon. Such a result can only be explained by the transport of these MTs from their initial location in the cell body into the axon. The newly formed axons of many neurons contained MTs both with and without Bt-tub. MTs without Bt-tub were detected all along the axon and in some neurons represented a substantial portion of the total polymer in the proximal and middle regions of the axon. These results show that MTs are transported from the cell body into growing axons and that this transport is robust, delivering MTs to all regions of the newly formed axon.

Key words: axon outgrowth; cultured sympathetic neurons; microtubules; microtubule transport; microinjection; biotin-labeled tubulin

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