Immunocytochemical colocalization of clusterin in apoptotic photoreceptor cells in retinal degeneration slow rds mutant mouse retinas
| Autor: | Steve Jones, Brenden F. Murphy, Robert J. Wordinger, Katherine O'Rourke, Catherine Jomary, Michael H. Chaitin, Neeraj Agarwal |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Retinal degeneration
Retinal Ganglion Cells genetic structures Immunocytochemistry Population Biophysics Apoptosis Nerve Tissue Proteins Biochemistry Immunoenzyme Techniques chemistry.chemical_compound Mice Reference Values medicine Animals Photoreceptor Cells Outer nuclear layer education Pigment Epithelium of Eye Molecular Biology Glycoproteins Retina education.field_of_study Mice Inbred BALB C Retinal pigment epithelium Clusterin biology Retinal Degeneration Retinal Cell Biology Anatomy medicine.disease Immunohistochemistry eye diseases Mice Mutant Strains Cell biology medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry biology.protein sense organs Molecular Chaperones |
| Zdroj: | Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 225(1) |
| ISSN: | 0006-291X |
| Popis: | In the rds mutant mouse the photoreceptor cells differentiate normally for the first few postnatal days, with the inner segments projecting an extended cilium. However, outer segments fail to form and only rudimentary disks and opsin-laden vesicles assemble at the tip of the cilium. These are shed into the interphotoreceptor space where they are phagocytosed by the retinal pigment epithelial cells. In this animal model, the photoreceptors undergo a slow degeneration via apoptosis leading to eventual loss of the entire photoreceptor population. Since increased expression of clusterin has been implicated in apoptosis, we studied the expression of clusterin in the rds mutant mouse retina and compared it to normal BALB/c retinas. Small intestinal microvillus epithelium was used as a positive control tissue for apoptosis. Immunocytochemistry revealed the presence of clusterin in the ganglion cell, inner nuclear and outer plexiform layers and in the retinal pigment epithelium of both the rds and the BALB/c retinas. Interestingly, scattered clusterin-positive cells were observed in the outer nuclear layer (onl) of dystrophic retinas. Since the increased presence of clusterin protein in the onl of dystrophic retina may indicate dying photoreceptor cells due to apoptosis, we utilized a co-localization procedure for apoptotic nuclei and clusterin. For apoptosis we utilized an in situ 3′ end labeling of fragmented DNA (TUNEL) and immunohistochemistry for clusterin using brown and red colored substrates respectively. Small intestine tissue sections were also included as positive controls for apoptosis. Our results show that clusterin is co-localized with apoptotic nuclei both in the onl of rds mutant retinas as well as in the small intestine epithelial cells undergoing cell turnover and exfoliation. These results are of interest since overexpression of clusterin is also observed in other neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Pick's disease. |
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