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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 6, 3721-3730, Copyright © 1986 by Society for Neuroscience

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Synthesis of a growth-associated protein by embryonic rat cerebrocortical neurons in vitro

NI Perrone-Bizzozero, SP Finklestein and LI Benowitz

Proteins synthesized by embryonic rat cortical cultures were studied under conditions that were either permissive or nonpermissive to neurite outgrowth. Freshly dissected cortex from embryonic day 17 rat pups was mechanically dissociated and plated on poly(L-lysine) substrate in the presence of (1) serum-free media, which allowed neuronal survival but no outgrowth; (2) serum, which allowed survival of both neurons and glia as well as neurite outgrowth; or (3) a hormone- supplemented defined media, which allowed preferential survival and outgrowth of neurons. In addition, postnatal tissue was cultured as a source of glia. Cultures were pulse-labeled with 35S-methionine 48 hr after plating and the protein synthesis patterns examined by 2- dimensional gel electrophoresis followed by fluorography. The expression of an acidic 50 kDa protein, associated with the particulate fraction of cells, was found to be a prominent correlate of neurite outgrowth. This protein was synthesized in serum- or hormone-treated embryonic cultures showing neurite outgrowth but was undetectable in embryonic cultures without outgrowth or in postnatal glial cultures. By virtue of its migration position on 2-dimensional gels, its presence in a light membrane fraction, and its cleavage products after Staphylococcus aureus protease treatment, the 50 kDa protein appears to be identical to an acidic 43-49 kDa protein that has been identified in several developing and regenerating neural pathways, as well as to the B-50 phosphoprotein. These findings lend support for a critical role of this protein in neural development and demonstrate the feasibility of using primary CNS cell cultures to study its biosynthesis and function.

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