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Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Vol. 49, 379-396, March 2001, Copyright © 2001, The Histochemical Society, Inc.

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Expression and Distribution of Tartrate-resistant Purple Acid Phosphatase in the Rat Nervous System

Pernilla Långa, Marianne Schultzbergb, and Göran Anderssona
a Division of Pathology, IMPI, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
b Division of Geriatric Medicine, NEUROTEC, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

Correspondence to: Göran Andersson, Div. of Pathology F 46, Huddinge University Hospital, S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden. E-mail: Goran.Andersson@impi.ki.se

Tartrate-resistant purple acid phosphatase (TRAP) of osteoclasts and certain cells of the monocyte–macrophage lineage belongs to the family of purple acid phosphatases (PAPs). We provide here evidence for TRAP/PAP expression in the central and peripheral nervous systems in the rat. TRAP/PAP protein was partially purified and characterized from the trigeminal ganglion, brain, and spinal cord. The TRAP activity (U/mg tissue) in these tissues was about 10–20 times lower than in bone. Reducing agents, e.g. ascorbate and ferric iron, increased the TRAP activity from the neural tissues (nTRAP) and addition of oxidizing agents completely inactivated both bone and nTRAP. The IC50 for three known oxyanion inhibitors of TRAP/PAP was similar for bone and nTRAP with the same rank order of potency (molybdate > tungstate > phosphate). This indicates that the redox-sensitive binuclear iron center characteristic of mammalian PAPs is present also in nTRAP. Western blots of partially purified nTRAP revealed a band with the expected size of 35 kD. The expression of TRAP in the trigeminal ganglion, brain, and spinal cord was confirmed at the mRNA level by RT-PCR. In situ hybridization histochemistry demonstrated TRAP mRNA expression in small ganglion cells of the trigeminal ganglion, in {alpha}-motor neurons of the ventral spinal cord, and in Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. TRAP-like immunoreactivity was encountered in the cytoplasm of neuronal cell bodies in specific areas of both the central and the peripheral nervous system. Together, the data demonstrate that active TRAP/PAP is expressed in certain parts of the rat nervous system. (J Histochem Cytochem 49:379–396, 2001)

Key Words: bone, brain, ganglion, macrophage, osteoclasts, osteopontin, protein phosphatase, sensory, sympathetic


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