May 2005
Volume 46, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   May 2005
Retinal Neuroblasts Have a Cdk–phosphorylated MARCKS Form Associated to Plasma Membrane Microdomains
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • C. Arruti
    Laboratorio de Cultivo de Tejidos, Sección Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • F.R. Zolessi
    Laboratorio de Cultivo de Tejidos, Sección Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • A. Toledo
    Laboratorio de Cultivo de Tejidos, Sección Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  C. Arruti, None; F.R. Zolessi, None; A. Toledo, None.
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    Support  PEDECIBA. Uruguay
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science May 2005, Vol.46, 5141. doi:
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      C. Arruti, F.R. Zolessi, A. Toledo; Retinal Neuroblasts Have a Cdk–phosphorylated MARCKS Form Associated to Plasma Membrane Microdomains . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2005;46(13):5141.

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Abstract

Abstract: : Purpose: To identify the kinase responsible for the neuron specific MARCKS phosphorylation at Ser 25 as well as to determine the subcellular region where this phospho MARCKS variant is located. Methods: A monoclonal antibody that binds to an epitopic region containing Ser 25 (S25) was used for Western blot analysis and indirect immunoflorescence detection on cultured chick embryo retina cells, treated or not with protein kinase inhibitors. Fluorescent cholera toxin was used to localize GM1. Triton X100 resistant membrane domains were isolated by sucrose gradient centrifugation. Results: S25 is located at the consensus sequence S–P–X–K, which matches the phosphorylation motif for Cdk1, Cdk2 and Cdk5. Accordingly roscovitin treatments of differentiating retina neuroblasts provoked an important decrease in MARCKS phosphorylation whereas inhibitors of other proline–directed kinases had no effect. While MARCKS protein was always found at the neuroblast periphery and at the cell cytoplasm, S25p–MARCKS appeared as clusters confined to the cell periphery. These clusters were positive with cholera toxin labelling, suggesting they are GM1 rich regions. In addition, the acutely extracted cholesterol by methyl–ß–cyclodextrin (MCD) provoked an enlargement of cluster sizes in cultured retina neuroblasts. S25p–MARCKS was found in detergent resistant membrane fractions. Conclusions: A fraction of total MARCKS present in neuroblasts would be phosporylated in vivo by Cdk5 and this phosphorylated form, S25p–MARCKS, would be associated to plasma membrane in microdomain regions.

Keywords: retinal development • protein modifications-post translational • retinal culture 
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