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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 2001, 21(7):2195-2205
Neurofilaments Consist of Distinct Populations That Can Be Distinguished by C-Terminal Phosphorylation, Bundling, and Axonal Transport Rate in Growing Axonal Neurites
Jason T. Yabe1, Teresa Chylinski1, Feng-Song Wang2, Aurea Pimenta3, Solomon D. Kattar1, Maria-Dawn Linsley1, Walter K-H Chan1, and Thomas B. Shea1 1 Center for Cellular Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration Research, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University-Calumet, Hammond, Indiana 46323, and 3 Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
We examined the steady-state distribution and axonal transport of neurofilament (NF) subunits within growing axonal neurites of NB2a/d1 cells. Ultrastructural analyses demonstrated a longitudinally oriented "bundle" of closely apposed NFs that was surrounded by more widely spaced individual NFs. NF bundles were recovered during fractionation and could be isolated from individual NFs by sedimentation through sucrose. Immunoreactivity toward the restrictive C-terminal phospho-dependent antibody RT97 was significantly more prominent on bundled than on individual NFs. Microinjected biotinylated NF subunits, GFP-tagged NF subunits expressed after transfection, and radiolabeled endogenous subunits all associated with individual NFs before they associated with bundled NFs. Biotinylated and GFP-tagged NF subunits did not accumulate uniformly along bundled NFs; they initially appeared within the proximal portion of the NF bundle and only subsequently were observed along the entire length of bundled NFs. These findings demonstrate that axonal NFs are not homogeneous but, rather, consist of distinct populations. One of these is characterized by less extensive C-terminal phosphorylation and a relative lack of NF-NF interactions. The other is characterized by more extensive C-terminal NF phosphorylation and increased NF-NF interactions and either undergoes markedly slower axonal transport or does not transport and undergoes turnover via subunit and/or filament exchange with individual NFs. Inhibition of phosphatase activities increased NF-NF interactions within living cells. These findings collectively suggest that C-terminal phosphorylation and NF-NF interactions are responsible for slowing NF axonal transport.
Key words: neurofilaments; axonal transport; cytoskeleton; axon; phosphorylation; neuronal differentiation
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/2172195-11$05.00/0
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