期刊
BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1268, 期 -, 页码 162-173出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.02.058
关键词
Down syndrome; alpha B-crystallin; Phosphorylation; Ependymal injury
Our previous proteomic studies disclosed upregulation of alpha B-crystallin, a small heat shock protein, in the brain tissue of Ts65Dn mice, a mouse model for Down syndrome (DS). To validate data obtained in model animals, we studied at present the levels and distribution of total alpha B-crystallin and its forms phosphorylated at Ser-45 and Ser-59 in the brain tissues of DS subjects and age-matched controls at 4 months to 23 years of age. On immunoblots from frontal cortex and white matter, alpha B-crystallin and its form phosphorylated at Ser-59 were detectable already in infants, whereas alpha B-crystallin phosphorylated at Ser-45 appeared in small amounts in older children. Although the levels of total alpha B-crystallin were modestly increased in DS subjects, the amounts of both phosphorylated forms were much higher (up to similar to 550%) in the group of older children and young adults with DS than in age-matched controls. Immunoreactivity to alpha B-crystallin occurred not only in a subset of oligodendrocytes and some subpial and perivascular astrocytes, which was reported earlier, but also in GFAP-positive astrocytes accumulating at the sites of ependymal injury as well as some GFAP/platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha-positive cells in both DS and control brains, which is a novel observation. Given that the chaperone and anti-apoptotic activities of alpha B-crystallin are phosphorylation-dependent, we propose that enhanced phosphorylation of alpha B-crystallin in the brains of young DS subjects might reflect a cytoprotective mechanism mobilized in response to stress conditions induced or augmented by the effect of genes encoded by the triplicated chromosome 21. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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