Hindawi Publishing Corporation BioMed Research International Volume 2014, Article ID 351821, 13 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/351821 Research Article The Proteome of the Differentiating Mesencephalic Progenitor Cell Line CSM14.1 In Vitro B. Weiss,1 S. Haas,1 G. Lessner,1,2 S. Mikkat,3 M. Kreutzer,3 M. O. Glocker,3 A. Wree,1 and O. Schmitt1 1 Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Gertrudenstraße 9, 18057 Rostock, Germany 2 Department of Pathology, University of Wurzburg,¨ Josef-Schneider Straße 2, 97080 Wurzburg,¨ Germany 3 Proteome Center Rostock, University of Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18055 Rostock, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to O. Schmitt;
[email protected] Received 5 July 2013; Accepted 16 December 2013; Published 30 January 2014 Academic Editor: Stephan M. Huber Copyright © 2014 B. Weiss et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The treatment of Parkinson’s disease by transplantation of dopaminergic (DA) neurons from human embryonic mesencephalic tissue is a promising approach. However, the origin of these cells causes major problems: availability and standardization of the graft. Therefore, the generation of unlimited numbers of DA neurons from various types of stem or progenitor cells has been brought into focus. A source for DA neurons might be conditionally immortalized progenitor cells. The temperature-sensitive immortalized cell line CSM14.1 derived from the mesencephalon of an embryonic rat has been used successfully for transplantation experiments. This cell line was analyzed by unbiased stereology of cell type specific marker proteins and 2D-gel electrophoresis followed by mass spectrometry to characterize the differentially expressed proteome.