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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 2, 398-412, February 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg041

Regulation of gene expression in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis indicates early neuronal dysfunction

Arnaud Nicot1,2, Pillarisetty V. Ratnakar1, Yacov Ron3, Chiann-Chyi Chen3 and Stella Elkabes1,2

1 Department of Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, 2 Veterans Affairs, Neurology Service, East Orange, 3 Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert W. Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA

Correspondence to: Stella Elkabes, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, MSB, H-506, New Jersey Medical School/UMDNJ, 185 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103, USA E-mail: elkabest{at}umdnj.edu

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the CNS. Whereas oligodendrocytes have been considered the primary neural cell type most affected, recent evidence indicates that axonal and neuronal degeneration also occurs in both multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model reproducing many features of multiple sclerosis. The molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal deficits in multiple sclerosis and EAE remain elusive. To address this issue, we have analysed the expression of genes encoding proteins that play critical roles in ion homeostasis, exocytosis, mitochondrial function and impulse conduction in the Lewis rat lumbar spinal cord during the clinical course of acute EAE. Transcript and protein levels of plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPase 2 (PMCA2), an essential ion pump expressed exclusively in grey matter and involved in Ca2+ extrusion, synapsin IIa and syntaxin 1B, important regulators of vesicular exocytosis, were dramatically decreased coincident with the onset of clinical symptoms. In contrast, changes in the expression of several other ion pumps, vesicular proteins, mitochondrial enzymes and sodium channels occurred at more advanced disease stages. Moreover, exposure of spinal cord slice cultures to kainic acid significantly reduced PMCA2 mRNA levels. Taken together, our findings suggest that glutamate, which recently has been implicated in EAE pathogenesis, suppresses neuronal PMCA2 expression leading to Ca2+ dyshomeostasis at initial clinical phases. Consequently, perturbations in Ca2+ balance and neurotransmitter exocytosis may partially underlie aberrant neuronal function and communication at onset of symptoms. Altered mitochondrial function and impulse conduction may exacerbate neurological deficits at subsequent disease stages.


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