PMID- 15006695 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040601 LR - 20151119 IS - 0969-9961 (Print) IS - 0969-9961 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 2 DP - 2004 Mar TI - Sialin expression in the CNS implicates extralysosomal function in neurons. PG - 251-61 AB - SLC17A5 encodes a lysosomal membrane protein, sialin, which transports sialic acid from lysosomes. Mutations in sialin result in neurodegenerative sialic acid storage disorders, Salla disease (SD) and infantile sialic acid storage disease (ISSD). Here we analyzed sialin in mouse central nervous system (CNS) and primary cortical and hippocampal neurons and glia. In the CNS, sialin was predominantly expressed in neurons, especially in the proliferative zone of the prospective neocortex and the hippocampus in developing brain. In nonneuronal cells and primary glial cell cultures, mouse sialin was localized into lysosomes but interestingly, in primary neuronal cultures sialin was not targeted into lysosomes but rather revealed a punctate staining along the neuronal processes and was also seen in the plasma membrane. These data demonstrate a nonlysosomal localization of sialin in neurons and would imply a role for sialin in the secretory processes of neuronal cells. FAU - Aula, Nina AU - Aula N AD - Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Biomedicum, 00290 Helsinki, Finland. FAU - Kopra, Outi AU - Kopra O FAU - Jalanko, Anu AU - Jalanko A FAU - Peltonen, Leena AU - Peltonen L LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Neurobiol Dis JT - Neurobiology of disease JID - 9500169 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Organic Anion Transporters) RN - 0 (Symporters) RN - 0 (sialic acid transport proteins) RN - GZP2782OP0 (N-Acetylneuraminic Acid) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Biomarkers MH - Brain/*embryology/*metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Cell Differentiation/physiology MH - Cell Membrane/*metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Cerebral Cortex/cytology/embryology/metabolism MH - Fetus MH - HeLa Cells MH - Hippocampus/embryology/metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Humans MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Lysosomes/*metabolism MH - Mice MH - N-Acetylneuraminic Acid/metabolism MH - Neurites/metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Neuroglia/cytology/metabolism MH - Neurons/*metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Organic Anion Transporters/*metabolism MH - Presynaptic Terminals/metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Sialic Acid Storage Disease/genetics/metabolism/pathology/physiopathology MH - Symporters/*metabolism EDAT- 2004/03/10 05:00 MHDA- 2004/06/02 05:00 CRDT- 2004/03/10 05:00 PHST- 2003/06/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2003/10/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2003/11/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2004/03/10 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/06/02 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/03/10 05:00 [entrez] AID - S0969996103002377 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.nbd.2003.11.017 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurobiol Dis. 2004 Mar;15(2):251-61. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2003.11.017.