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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 113, Issue 21 3861-3869, Copyright © 2000 by Company of Biologists
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J Chen, T Nakata, Z Zhang and N Hirokawa
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
In order to study the role of NF-H in a neurofilament network formation in neurons, we coexpressed NF-H with neurofilament protein-L (NF-L) in Sf9 cells using the baculovirus expression system. Electron microscopy observations revealed that parallel arrays of 10 nm filaments with frequent crossbridges between adjacent filaments were formed in the cytoplasm of Sf9 cells infected with the recombinant virus that co-expressed NF-L and NF-H. To explore the function of the C-terminal tail domain of NF-H, various deletion mutants lacking portions of the tail domain were constructed, and each of them was coexpressed with NF-L. The results show that the tail domain of NF-H is a structural component of crossbridges and is involved in parallel bundle formation of neurofilaments, as core filaments of the axon. The last 191 amino acids of the C-terminal tail domain of NF-H play a key role in crossbridge formation.
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