Intracellular redistribution of neuropeptides and secretory proteins during differentiation of neuronal cell lines

A. M. Suburo, S. C. Wheatley, D. A. Horn, S. J. Gibson, R. Jahn, R. Fischer-Colbrie, J. N. Wood, D. S. Latchman, J. M. Polak

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Abstract

We have demonstrated that the mouse neuroblastoma N18Tg2 cell line and severat clones of hybrid ND cells (ND7, ND9 and ND21), derived from the fusion of neonatal rat sensory neurons with that neuroblastoma, show immunostaining to protein gene product 9.5, neuropeptide Y, C-flanking peptide of neuropeptide Y, tyrosine hydroxylase and chromogranins. Synaptophysin could only be detected in ND cells. Immunoreactivities to substance P, calcitonin gene-related peptide, galanin and somatostatin could not be detected in any of these cell lines. After three days of incubation in a differentiation medium, cell processes of various lengths were observed both in neuroblastoma and ND cell cultures. In ND7 cells there was also a redistribution of neuropeptide Y and its C-flanking peptide to the tips of cell processes. The differentiation of cell processes was also accompanied by the appearance of immunostaining to rat chromogranins in their tips. In contrast, synaptophysin expression was found mainly in cell bodies. Neuropeptide Y, its C-flanking peptide and chromogranins have been associated with secretory granules, whereas synaptophysin is a marker for small synaptic-like vesicles. Therefore, our morphological findings further support and expand the view that these markers are primarily associated with different subcellular structures. Moreover, they indicate that the regulated secretory pathway associated with chromogranins is segregated into nerve processes at an early stage of differentiation, when the synaptophysin-associated pathway is not yet mature. ND7 cells thus provide a useful model system for studying changes in the distribution of neuropeptides, cytoskeletal elements and proteins associated with cell secretion during neuronal differentiation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)881-889
Number of pages9
JournalNeuroscience
Volume46
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 1992

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Neuroscience

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