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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 264, Issue 7, 3880-3883, 03, 1989

Transforming growth factor-alpha in the mammalian brain. Immunohistochemical detection in neurons and characterization of its mRNA

JE Kudlow, AW Leung, MS Kobrin, AJ Paterson and SL Asa
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, Ontario, Canada.

In this communication, we demonstrate that adult mammalian brain neurons express transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha). We used the anti-TGF-alpha monoclonal antibody, MF9, to immunohistochemically localize TGF-alpha in human and rat brain. We found specific immunoreactivity in neurons throughout the brain which was not a result of cross-reactivity of MF9 with the neuropeptide, synenkephalin. Northern blot analysis of bovine and rat brain RNA using human and rat TGF-alpha cDNA probes, respectively, revealed a single 4.8-kilobase pair mRNA with approximately equal abundance in the bovine brainstem, cerebellum, hypothalamus, and cerebral cortex. Fetal rat brain had about 2-fold more TGF-alpha mRNA than did adult rat. The brain TGF- alpha cDNA was cloned from a human neonatal brainstem library. Four identical clones were isolated after screening 10(6) recombinant lambda gt11 phage. The sequence of the 894-base pair cDNA was virtually identical with the cDNA isolated from a human renal cell carcinoma. A single alanine codon was deleted in the brain cDNA at an exon-exon junction. The alanine deletion is within the amino-terminal region of the TGF-alpha precursor that is thought to be removed by proteolytic processing of the precursor to the mature growth factor. These studies indicate that the normal mammalian brain neurons express TGF-alpha.
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