TY - JOUR
T1 - Expression of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase in mature granule cells of the adult mouse dentate gyrus
AU - Ohira, Koji
AU - Hagihara, Hideo
AU - Toyama, Keiko
AU - Takao, Keizo
AU - Kanai, Masaaki
AU - Funakoshi, Hiroshi
AU - Nakamura, Toshikazu
AU - Miyakawa, Tsuyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Kayo Abe and Nanae Kato for technical assistance. This work was supported by KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) on Priority Areas ‘Systems Genomics’ (20016013), on Priority Areas ‘Pathomechanisms of Brain Disorders’ (20023017), Young Scientists A (16680015), Young Scientists B (21700384), and Exploratory Research (19653081) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, Promotion of Fundamental Studies in Health Sciences of the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), and by grants from CREST of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - New granule cells are continuously generated in the dentate gyrus of the adult hippocampus. During granule cell maturation, the mechanisms that differentiate new cells not only describe the degree of cell differentiation, but also crucially regulate the progression of cell differentiation. Here, we describe a gene, tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO), whose expression distinguishes stem cells from more differentiated cells among the granule cells of the adult mouse dentate gyrus. The use of markers for proliferation, neural progenitors, and immature and mature granule cells indicated that TDO was expressed in mature cells and in some immature cells. In mice heterozygous for the alpha-isoform of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, in which dentate gyrus granule cells fail to mature normally, TDO immunoreactivity was substantially downregulated in the dentate gyrus granule cells. Moreover, a 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine labeling experiment revealed that new neurons began to express TDO between 2 and 4 wk after the neurons were generated, when the axons and dendrites of the granule cells developed and synaptogenesis occurred. These findings indicate that TDO might be required at a late-stage of granule cell development, such as during axonal and dendritic growth, synaptogenesis and its maturation.
AB - New granule cells are continuously generated in the dentate gyrus of the adult hippocampus. During granule cell maturation, the mechanisms that differentiate new cells not only describe the degree of cell differentiation, but also crucially regulate the progression of cell differentiation. Here, we describe a gene, tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO), whose expression distinguishes stem cells from more differentiated cells among the granule cells of the adult mouse dentate gyrus. The use of markers for proliferation, neural progenitors, and immature and mature granule cells indicated that TDO was expressed in mature cells and in some immature cells. In mice heterozygous for the alpha-isoform of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, in which dentate gyrus granule cells fail to mature normally, TDO immunoreactivity was substantially downregulated in the dentate gyrus granule cells. Moreover, a 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine labeling experiment revealed that new neurons began to express TDO between 2 and 4 wk after the neurons were generated, when the axons and dendrites of the granule cells developed and synaptogenesis occurred. These findings indicate that TDO might be required at a late-stage of granule cell development, such as during axonal and dendritic growth, synaptogenesis and its maturation.
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U2 - 10.1186/1756-6606-3-26
DO - 10.1186/1756-6606-3-26
M3 - Article
C2 - 20815922
AN - SCOPUS:77956463689
SN - 1756-6606
VL - 3
JO - Molecular brain
JF - Molecular brain
IS - 1
M1 - 26
ER -