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A P de Iraldi

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PubMed2000

Experience-dependent decrease in synaptically localized Fra-1.

The Fos family of transcription factors has been repeatedly shown to participate in the long-term neural responses associated with a variety of physiological stimuli, including activity-dependent plastic processes. Quite recently, several transcription factors have been found in synaptic regions, localized in dendrites and presynaptic terminals. Here we show that the transcription factor Fos-related antigen-1 (Fra-1) was detected in synaptosomes (Syn) and synaptic plasma membrane (SPM) fractions from the rat cerebral cortex and hippocampus as a single band migrating with M(r) 42-43 kDa. The 55-kDa c-Fos protein was also detected in syn and SPM fractions. Conversely, the inducible 62-65-kDa c-Fos is present in nuclear fractions from metrazole-treated animals (positive control), but not in Syn or SPM fractions. Furthermore, no Fra-2, Fos B or c-Jun immunoreactivities were detected in these same synaptic regions. DNA-mobility shift assays showed the presence of specific AP-1 binding activity in synaptic protein extracts. Immunoelectronmicroscopic analysis of cortical and hippocampal tissues revealed that Fra-1 and Fos-like immunoreactivities are localized in association with presynaptic plasma membranes. One trial inhibitory avoidance training, a hippocampal-dependent task, is associated with a time-dependent decrease (-31%) in Fra-1, but not in 55-kDa c-Fos, levels in hippocampal SPM fractions. In hippocampal homogenates, we do not detect significant changes in Fra-1 immunoreactivity, suggesting that this behavioural experience is probably accompanied by a subcellular redistribution of Fra-1 protein. These results suggest that Fra-1 may participate in the communication between synapse and the nucleus and in experience-dependent hippocampal plasticity.

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PubMed1988

Histochemical localization of cyclic 3',5'-AMP phosphodiesterase in rat pineal gland.

Female Wistar rats maintained in a light:dark 12:12 photoperiod cycle were used to investigate the histochemical localization of the cAMP phosphodiesterase activity in the pineal gland of rats killed in the light period or in the dark period of the diurnal lighting regimen. Enzyme activity was identified along the plasma membrane of pinealocytes. The distribution of phosphodiesterase activity for cyclic guanosine monophosphate was similar to that found for cyclic adenosine monophosphate, suggesting that the same enzyme hydrolyzes both nucleotides. In the theophylline control, the reaction product along the plasma membrane of pinealocytes disappeared almost totally. In control sections without substrate, no reaction product was found. The animals decapitated in the dark period of the diurnal cycle showed a distribution of phosphodiesterase activity similar to that found in animals killed in the light period.

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PubMed1976

Morphological changes induced by -SH reagents in rod photoreceptor outer segments.

Rat retinas were treated in vitro with -SH reagents and "stained" with zinc iodide-osmium tetroxide (ZIO). Dithioerythritol (DTE), an -S-S-reducing agent, increased the electron opaque deposits observed after ZIO staining in the intra- and extradiskal spaces of the rods. N-ethyl-maleimide (nem), an -SH blocking agent, applied directly or after DTE, blocks the ZIO reaction. Furthermore, after treatment with NEM, distorted tubular and vesicular structures are substituted for the stacks of disks. These results strongly suggest that ZIO reacts with -SH groups in rod outer segments. They also indicate that SH-groups play an important role in the structural organization of rod outer segments.

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PubMed1975

Localizing -SH groups in monoaminergic synaptic vesicles with the mixture of zinc iodide-osmium tetroxide (ZIO).

In monoaminergic granulated vesicles the mixture of zinc iodide-osmium tetroxide (ZIO) stains two compartments: the core and the matrix, the latter being more intensively stained than the core. Rat pineal glands were incubated in 0.1 M N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). It was observed that NEM blocks ZIO reaction both in the matrix and the core, whereas the controls were fully reactive. This finding strongly suggests that ZIO reaction is due to -SH groups and can be correlated with the effect of NEM on uptake processes.

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