TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitative proteomics identifies a change in glial glutamate metabolism at the time of female puberty
AU - Roth, Christian L.
AU - McCormack, Ashley L.
AU - Lomniczi, Alejandro
AU - Mungenast, Alison E.
AU - Ojeda, Sergio R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Maria E. Costa and Luciana Tonelli for their invaluable technical support. This study was supported by NIH grants MH65438, HD25123, NICHD Cooperative Grant U54 HD18185 as part of the Specialized Cooperative Centers Programs in Reproduction Research, and RR00163 for the Operation of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. CLR was supported by the ESPE sabbatical leave program and by DFG grant RO 2220/3-1.
PY - 2006/7/25
Y1 - 2006/7/25
N2 - Mammalian puberty requires activation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) neurons. In turn, these neurons are controlled by transsynaptic and glia-to-neuron communication pathways, which employ diverse cellular proteins for proper function. We have now used a high throughput relative quantitative proteomics technique to identify such proteins. We selected the method of two-dimensional liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (2DLC-MS/MS) and cleavable isotope-coded affinity tags (cICAT), to both identify and quantify individual proteins within a complex protein mixture. The proteins used derived from the hypothalamus of juvenile (25-day-old) and peripubertal (first proestrus, LP) female rats, and their identity was established by analyzing their mass spectra via database searching. Five proteins involved in glutamate metabolism were detected and two of them appeared to be differentially expressed. They were selected for further analysis, because of their importance in controlling glutamate synthesis and degradation, and their preferential expression in astroglial cells. One, glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) catalyzes glutamate synthesis; its hypothalamic content detected by 2DLC-MS/MS increases at first proestrus. The other, glutamine synthetase (GS), catalyzes the metabolism of glutamate to glutamine; its content decreases in proestrus. Western blot analysis verified these results. Because these changes suggested an increased glutamate production at puberty, we measured glutamate release from hypothalamic fragments from juvenile 29-day old rats, and from rats treated with PMSG to induce a premature proestrus surge of luteinizing hormone (LH). To determine the net output of glutamate in the absence of re-uptake we used the excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) inhibitor l-trans-pyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid (PDC). PDC elicited significantly more glutamate- and LHRH-release from the proestrus hypothalamus. Thus, an increase excitatory drive to the LHRH neuronal network provided by glutamatergic inputs of glial origin, is an event contributing to the pubertal activation of LHRH secretion.
AB - Mammalian puberty requires activation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) neurons. In turn, these neurons are controlled by transsynaptic and glia-to-neuron communication pathways, which employ diverse cellular proteins for proper function. We have now used a high throughput relative quantitative proteomics technique to identify such proteins. We selected the method of two-dimensional liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (2DLC-MS/MS) and cleavable isotope-coded affinity tags (cICAT), to both identify and quantify individual proteins within a complex protein mixture. The proteins used derived from the hypothalamus of juvenile (25-day-old) and peripubertal (first proestrus, LP) female rats, and their identity was established by analyzing their mass spectra via database searching. Five proteins involved in glutamate metabolism were detected and two of them appeared to be differentially expressed. They were selected for further analysis, because of their importance in controlling glutamate synthesis and degradation, and their preferential expression in astroglial cells. One, glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) catalyzes glutamate synthesis; its hypothalamic content detected by 2DLC-MS/MS increases at first proestrus. The other, glutamine synthetase (GS), catalyzes the metabolism of glutamate to glutamine; its content decreases in proestrus. Western blot analysis verified these results. Because these changes suggested an increased glutamate production at puberty, we measured glutamate release from hypothalamic fragments from juvenile 29-day old rats, and from rats treated with PMSG to induce a premature proestrus surge of luteinizing hormone (LH). To determine the net output of glutamate in the absence of re-uptake we used the excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) inhibitor l-trans-pyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid (PDC). PDC elicited significantly more glutamate- and LHRH-release from the proestrus hypothalamus. Thus, an increase excitatory drive to the LHRH neuronal network provided by glutamatergic inputs of glial origin, is an event contributing to the pubertal activation of LHRH secretion.
KW - Female puberty
KW - Glial cells
KW - Glutamate synthesis
KW - Hypothalamus
KW - Quantitative proteomics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mce.2006.04.017
DO - 10.1016/j.mce.2006.04.017
M3 - Article
C2 - 16753258
AN - SCOPUS:33745924440
SN - 0303-7207
VL - 254-255
SP - 51
EP - 59
JO - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
JF - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
ER -