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. 1984 Sep;81(17):5613-7.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.81.17.5613.

Heterogeneity of microtubule-associated protein 2 during rat brain development

L I Binder, A Frankfurter, H Kim, A Caceres, M R Payne, L I Rebhun

Heterogeneity of microtubule-associated protein 2 during rat brain development

L I Binder et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1984 Sep.

Abstract

The electrophoretic pattern of the large microtubule-associated protein, MAP2, changes during rat brain development. Immunoblots of NaDodSO4 extracts obtained from the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and thalamus at 10-15 days after birth reveal only a single electrophoretic species when probed with any of three MAP2 monoclonal antibodies. By contrast, adult MAP2 contains two immunoreactive species, MAP2a and MAP2b. The single band of MAP2 from immature brain electrophoretically comigrates with adult MAP2b. Between postnatal days 17 and 18, immature MAP2 simultaneously resolves into two species in both the cerebellum and cerebral cortex. Immunoblots of NaDodSO4 extracts from spinal cord demonstrate the adult complement of MAP2 by day 10, indicating that MAP2 does not change coordinately throughout the entire central nervous system. In vitro cAMP-dependent phosphorylation of immature MAP2 causes a band split reminiscent of that seen during brain development in vivo. The possibility that the developmentally regulated changes observed in MAP2 during brain maturation are due to timed phosphorylation events is discussed.

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