Identification of Functional Marker Proteins in the Mammalian Growth Cone
Identification of functional marker proteins in the mammalian growth cone Motohiro Nozumia,b, Tetsuya Toganoa,c, Kazuko Takahashi-Nikia, Jia Lua,c, Atsuko Hondaa,b, Masato Taokad,e, Takashi Shinkawad,e, Hisashi Kogaf,g, Kosei Takeuchia,b, Toshiaki Isobed,e, and Michihiro Igarashia,b,1 Divisions of aMolecular Cell Biology and cOphthalmology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, and bTransdisciplinary Research Program, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahi-machi, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Niigata 951-8510, Japan; dDepartment of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan; eCore Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Sanbancho 5, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan; and fChiba Industry Advancement Center and gCollaboration of Regional Entities for the Advancement of Technological Excellence Program, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan Edited by Lynn T. Landmesser, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and approved August 24, 2009 (received for review April 18, 2009) Identification of proteins in the mammalian growth cone has the mammalian growth cone functions, in particular interactions or potential to advance our understanding of this critical regulator of relationships among signaling pathways, at least in part because of neuronal growth and formation of neural circuit; however, to date, an insufficient understanding of what key molecules are important only one growth cone marker protein, GAP-43, has been reported. for function (1, 2). Here, we successfully used a proteomic approach to identify 945 Indeed, even what proteins might be present, i.e., molecular proteins present in developing rat forebrain growth cones, including markers of the growth cone, is a relatively unexplored territory, highly abundant, membrane-associated and actin-associated pro- particularly as compared with our understanding of synaptic mo- teins.
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