May 2006
Volume 47, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   May 2006
AAV–GC1 Restores Subcellular Distribution of Cone Arrestin and GCAP1 Expression in Cone Cells of the GC1 Ko Mouse
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • S.E. Haire
    University, Gainesville, FL
    Neuroscience,
  • J. Pang
    University, Gainesville, FL
    Ophthalmology,
  • S. Boye
    University, Gainesville, FL
    Ophthalmology,
  • A. Robinson
    University, Gainesville, FL
    Neuroscience,
  • I. Sokal
    Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • C. Craft
    Ophthalmology, USC Keck Med, Los Angeles, CA
  • K. Palczewski
    Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • W.W. Hauswirth
    University, Gainesville, FL
    Ophthalmology,
  • S.L. Semple–Rowland
    University, Gainesville, FL
    Neuroscience,
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  S.E. Haire, None; J. Pang, None; S. Boye, None; A. Robinson, None; I. Sokal, None; C. Craft, None; K. Palczewski, None; W.W. Hauswirth, AGTC, P; S.L. Semple–Rowland, None.
  • Footnotes
    Support  NIH Grant EY11388 (SLSR), Core Grant EY08571, Mary D. Allen Endowment, Doheny Eye Institute (CMC), Core Grant EY08061 (KP)
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science May 2006, Vol.47, 838. doi:
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      S.E. Haire, J. Pang, S. Boye, A. Robinson, I. Sokal, C. Craft, K. Palczewski, W.W. Hauswirth, S.L. Semple–Rowland; AAV–GC1 Restores Subcellular Distribution of Cone Arrestin and GCAP1 Expression in Cone Cells of the GC1 Ko Mouse . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2006;47(13):838.

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Abstract

Purpose: : We have shown that the absence of guanylate cyclase–1 (GC1) in the GC1 knockout mouse prevents normal, light–driven translocation of cone arrestin in cone cells. In these retinas, cone arrestin immunoreactivity is localized to the outer segments and synaptic terminals of cone cells regardless of the state of light adaptation. In addition, levels of guanylate cyclase activating protein–1 (GCAP1) are downregulated in cone cells of the GC1 KO mouse prior to the onset of cone cell degeneration. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of AAV delivered GC1 on the distribution of arrestin and GCAP1 expression in GC1 KO cone photoreceptors.

Methods: : Three–week–old GC1 KO mice received subretinal injections of AAV–GC1 and their retinas were examined 5 weeks post–injection. Immunohistochemical techniques employing GC1 (IS4 – I. Sokal), cone arrestin (LUMIj –Zhu & Craft) and cone transducin alpha (UW14– K. Palczewski) antibodies were used to identify photoreceptors transduced by the AAV vector and to localize cone arrestin and GCAP1, respectively.

Results: : In dark–adapted, GC1 KO retinas treated with AAV–GC1, cone arrestin was distributed throughout the transduced cells, the staining pattern resembling that observed in dark–adapted, wild–type retinas. AAV–GC1 treated cone cells had increased levels of GCAP1 expression as compared to GC1 KO cone photoreceptors.

Conclusions: : AAV– mediated delivery of GC1 to cone photoreceptors in the GC1 KO mouse retina restores the normal sub–cellular distribution of cone arrestin and increases levels of GCAP1 protein in these cells. These results confirm that light–driven translocation of arrestin and GCAP1 expression in cone cells is dependent on expression of GC1 in these cells.

Keywords: gene transfer/gene therapy • retina • visual impairment: neuro-ophthalmological disease 
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