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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
卷 119, 期 21, 页码 4452-4461出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03219
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14-3-3 gamma; GFAP; vimentin; astrocytes; phosphorylation
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Recent findings indicated a protective role of GFAP in ischemic brain, injured spinal cord, and in neurodegenerative disease. We previously demonstrated that 14-3-3 gamma, once thought to be neuronal specific, was up-regulated by ischemia in astrocytes and may play a specific protective role in astrocytes. Here we report that 14-3-3 gamma associates with both soluble and filamentous GFAP in a phosphorylation- and cell-cycle- dependent manner in primary cultured astrocytes. The amount of association increases during G2/M phase due to more phosphorylated GFAP. Moreover, this interaction is independent of vimentin, another type III intermediate filament protein in astrocytes which forms glial filaments with GFAP. A series of domain deletion mutants and substitution mutations at phosphorylation sites ( from serine to alanine) on GFAP demonstrated that serine 8 in the head domain is essential for the direct association of GFAP to 14-3-3 gamma. Overexpression of 14-3-3 gamma destroyed the integrity and affected the movement of GFAP intermediate filaments. This data demonstrates that 14-3-3 gamma contributes to the regulation of dynamics of GFAP filaments, which may contribute to the stability of the cytoskeleton and the mechanisms of central nervous system neurodegenerative disease.
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