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Título: | Expression in retinal neurons of fukutin and FKRP, the protein products of two dystroglycanopathy-causative genes |
Autor: | Haro, Carmen CSIC ORCID; Uribe, Mary Luz; Quereda, Cristina; Cruces, Jesús CSIC; Martín-Nieto, José | Fecha de publicación: | 2018 | Editor: | Molecular Vision | Citación: | Molecular Vision 24: 43-58 (2018) | Resumen: | [Purpose]: Dystroglycanopathies are a heterogeneous group of recessive neuromuscular dystrophies that affect the muscle, brain and retina, and are caused by deficiencies in the O-glycosylation of α-dystroglycan. This post-translational modification is essential for the formation and maintenance of ribbon synapses in the retina. Fukutin and fukutin-related protein (FKRP) are two glycosyltransferases whose deficiency is associated with severe dystroglycanopathies. These enzymes carry out in vitro the addition of a tandem ribitol 5-phosphate moiety to the so-called core M3 phosphotrisaccharide of α-dystroglycan. However, their expression pattern and function in the healthy mammalian retina has not so far been investigated. In this work, we have addressed the expression of the FKTN (fukutin) and FKRP genes in the retina of mammals, and characterized the distribution pattern of their protein products in the adult mouse retina and the 661W photoreceptor cell line. [Methods]: By means of reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and immunoblotting, we have studied the expression at the mRNA and protein levels of the fukutin and FKRP genes in different mammalian species, from rodents to humans. Immunofluorescence confocal microscopy analyses were performed to characterize the distribution profile of their protein products in mouse retinal sections and in 661W cultured cells. [Results]: Both genes were expressed at the mRNA and protein levels in the neural retina of all mammals studied. Fukutin was present in the cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions in the mouse retina and 661W cells, and accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum. FKRP was located in the cytoplasmic fraction in the mouse retina and concentrated in the Golgi complex. However, and in contrast to retinal tissue, FKRP additionally accumulated in the nucleus of the 661W photoreceptors. [Conclusions]: Our results suggest that fukutin and FKRP not only participate in the synthesis of O-mannosyl glycans added to α-dystroglycan in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex, but that they could also play a role, that remains to be established, in the nucleus of retinal neurons. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/188176 | E-ISSN: | 1090-0535 |
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