Localization of Dlg at the mammalian neuromuscular junction

Neuroreport. 1998 Jun 22;9(9):2121-5. doi: 10.1097/00001756-199806220-00039.

Abstract

Recent studies have begun to elucidate the localization of ion channels and receptors in central nervous system synapses. A family of proteins containing PDZ domains has been suggested to play essential roles in these processes. PSD-95 and chapsyn-110 have been implicated in the clustering of Shaker K+ channels and NMDA receptors in the mammalian brain, and Dlg plays a role in the clustering of Shaker K+ channels at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ). We have explored whether Dlg might participate in mammalian NMJ organization. We demonstrate that Dlg is expressed in muscle and co-localizes with utrophin at the post-synaptic face of the mammalian NMJ. Dlg may therefore be important for establishing or maintaining the organization of protein complexes at the mammalian NMJ.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Blotting, Western
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins / genetics
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins / metabolism
  • DNA / isolation & purification
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct
  • Genes, Lethal / physiology*
  • Membrane Proteins / genetics
  • Membrane Proteins / metabolism
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Inbred mdx
  • Muscle, Skeletal / innervation
  • Muscle, Skeletal / metabolism
  • Muscle, Skeletal / ultrastructure
  • Neuromuscular Junction / physiology*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • RNA / biosynthesis
  • RNA / genetics
  • Utrophin

Substances

  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Utrn protein, mouse
  • Utrophin
  • RNA
  • DNA