O-glycosylation of the tail domain of neurofilament protein M in human neurons and in spinal cord tissue of a rat model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

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Lüdemann, N
Clement, A
Hans, VH
Leschik, J
Behl, C
Brandt, R
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[1] Univ Osnabruck, Dept Neurobiol, D-49076 Osnabruck, Germany
[2] Heidelberg Univ, IZN, Dept Neurobiol, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[3] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Physiol Chem & Pathobiochem, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[4] Univ Hosp Bonn, Inst Neuropathol, D-53105 Bonn, Germany
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10.1074/jbc.M504395200
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Mammalian neurofilaments ( NFs) are modified by post-translational modifications that are thought to regulate NF assembly and organization. Whereas phosphorylation has been intensely studied, the role of another common modification, the attachment of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine ( GlcNAc) to individual serine and threonine residues, is hardly understood. We generated a novel monoclonal antibody that specifically recognizes an O-glycosylated epitope in the tail domain of NF-M and allows determination of the glycosylation state at this residue. The antibody displays strong species preference for human NF-M, shows some reactivity with rat but not with mouse or bovine NF-M. By immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis of biopsy-derived human temporal lobe tissue we show that immunoreactivity is highly enriched in axons parallel to hyperphosphorylated NFs. Treatment of cultured neurons with the GlcNAcase inhibitor PUGNAc causes a 40% increase in immunoreactivity within 1 h, which is completely reversible and parallels the total increase in cellular O-GlcNAc modification. Treatment with the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase inhibitor PD-98059 leads to a similar increase in immunoreactivity. In spinal cord tissue of a transgenic rat model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, immunoreactivity is strongly decreased compared with wild-type animals while phosphorylation is increased. The data suggest that hyper-phosphorylation and tail domain O-glycosylation of NFs are synchronously regulated in axons of human neurons in situ and that O-glycosylation of NF-M is highly dynamic and closely interweaved with phosphorylation cascades and may have a pathophysiological role.
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