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JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 11, Pages 968-974Publisher
AMER ASSN NEUROPATHOLOGISTS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jnen/61.11.968
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alpha B-crystallin; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; glial cells; HSP27; neurodegeneration; stress response
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Mutations of the SOD] gene underlie 1 form of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Their pathogenic mechanism remains uncertain, but is thought to involve oxidative stress and abnormal protein aggregation, 2 processes known to induce heat shock proteins (HSPs). We studied the expression of 3 HSPs (alphaB-crystallin, HSP27, and HSP70) in transgenic mice overexpressing human mutant (G93A and G37R) SOD1, using a combination of immunohistochemistry and immuno-blotting.. Quantitative Western blot analysis demonstrated alphaB-crystallin and HSP27 to be upregulated, in the spinal cord of mutant. SOD1 mice compared to mice, overexpressing wild-type SOD1. HSP70 levels were normal. Immunocytochemical studies of the. ventral horn of the spinal cord demonstrated. HSP27 to be localized in the nucleus of neurons and glial cells in presymptomatic and early symptomatic animals, where it often was punctate in pattern. In the later stages of the disease, HSP27 was predominantly present in the cytoplasm of reactive glial cells. The early nuclear localization was confirmed by Western blot analysis of spinal cord nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions. In contrast to HSP27, alphaB-crystallin was localized exclusively in the cytoplasm of reactive glial cells.
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