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  • Title: Slow component B protein kinetics in optic nerve and tract windows.
    Author: Paggi P, Lasek RJ, Katz MJ.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1989 Dec 18; 504(2):223-30. PubMed ID: 2480832.
    Abstract:
    The transport kinetics of 3 radiolabeled slow component b (SCb) proteins (a 30 kDa protein, clathrin, and actin) were examined in the axons of mouse retinal ganglion cells. To view the transit of these proteins through the entire optic pathway between the eye and the target cells, we used two different windows: (1) a 2 mm segment from the optic nerve located 3-5 mm from the eye, and (2) a 2 mm segment from the optic tract located past the chiasm 6-8 mm from the eye. The radiolabeled proteins from these windows were separated by 1- and 2-dimensional SDS-PAGE, and the individual radiolabeled bands were quantified. Radiolabeled proteins entered and cleared the optic axons between 1 and 119 days post-labeling. All these proteins had broader transport waves in the more distal optic tract window than in the more proximal optic nerve window. The spreading of transport waves as they advance along the axon appears to be produced by a playing out of the natural heterogeneity of axonal transport rates within each population of labeled proteins. Our results confirm the proposals that clathrin and the 30 kDa protein are transported principally with SCb and that actin is transported both with SCb and with SCa. Although these proteins can be generally classified with SCb, their detailed kinetics differed (for example, their median transit times differed) and, in summary, their characteristic rates of movement can be ordered as: clathrin greater than 30 kDa protein greater than actin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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