Degradation products of myelin proteins in a light CNS subcellular fraction.

Neurochemical Research
H Persson, O Corneliuson

Abstract

The fraction floating on 0.32 M sucrose when normal mammalian spinal cord homogenate is submitted to discontinuous density gradient centrifugation is highly enriched in Marchi-positive material. In situ this material is located along paranodal myelin sheath segments. We here show by immunoblotting that degradation products of the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and of the enzyme 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (CNP) is present in the Marchi-positive floating fraction but is not found in the myelin fraction. Since previous biochemical analyses of the floating fraction show a gross composition closely resembling myelin and since metabolic studies show the specific activity of incorporated amino acids to proceed with time from heavier to lighter myelin subfractions the results strongly suggest that normally occurring Marchi-positive bodies represents an intermediate stage in myelin catabolism.

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