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. 1977 Feb 15;162(2):247–255. doi: 10.1042/bj1620247

Protein determinants of myelination in different regions of developing rat central nervous system.

N L Banik, M E Smith
PMCID: PMC1164596  PMID: 192217

Abstract

Measurements of several different protein determinants correlated with the time and rate of myelination in five areas of the central nervous system are presented. The deposition of protein in the subcellular fraction corresponding to the density of adult myelin, the appearance of basic protein characteristic myelin, the change in proportions of the individual myelin proteins, the appearance and distribution of the myelin marker 2':3'-cyclic nucleotide3'-phosphohydrolase, and the results of morphological studies of purified myelin are compared. According to these various criteria, and in agreement with the morphological observations of others, myelin appears earliest in the spinal cord, then in the brain stem, and latest in the cerebral hemispheres. Multilamellar myelin was observed in the rat brain stem and spinal cord as early as 5 days of age. The relative proportion of the individual myelin proteins changed with myelin maturation in all areas, with the larger basic protein decreasing reciprocally with increase of the smaller basic protein. The proportion of Wolfgram protein also decreased with maturation. Larger proportions of the enzyme 2':3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphohydrolase were located in the microsomal fraction at early ages. During development the enzyme activity gradually became associated more with a fraction of a density corresponding to adult myelin, suggesting the presence of precursor membrane fragments in microsomal fractions in the early stages of myelination before compact myelin formation. A significant proportion of the total nucleotide phosphohydrolase activity of the homogenate could not be recovered in subcellular fraction at early ages, but the recovers of the enzyme increased with maturation and the activity was found more in the myelin fraction.

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