Journal: Channels
Article Title: Activation of transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) influences how retinal ganglion cell neurons respond to pressure-related stress
doi: 10.1080/19336950.2015.1009272
Figure Lengend Snippet: TRPV1 Forms a Protein Complex with TRPV4. (A) Western blots from brain and retina for TRPV4 and TRPV1 with full-length product in expected range near 100 kDa (dark arrowhead). TRPV1 also shows strong product near 75 kDa (open arrowhead), consistent with earlier work.20 Product for β-actin (*, run simultaneously) is shown for comparison. Smaller products (∼60 kDa) likely represent protein degradation. (B) Western blots (WB) for TRPV1 (left) and TRPV4 (right) following immuno-precipitation (IP) of TRPV4 or TRPV1, respectively, from brain and retina extracts. Co-immuno-precipitation product for the TRPV4/TRPV1 complex (bracket) is the same whether the immuno-precipitate is TRPV4 (left) or TRPV1 (right) and is slightly less heavy than the WB product for TRPV1 for brain in the absence of IP (arrowhead). (C) Western blots for TRPV1 (brain) following immuno-precipitation (IP) of TRPV4 shows same reaction product near 100 kDa as before. When supernatant (S) from the co-immuno-precipitation reaction is probed again for TRPV1, this product is absent (bracket), supporting specific binding of the 100 kDa form of TRPV1 to TRPV4. (D) Quantitative PCR measurements of Trpv1 mRNA in young (3–5 mo) and aged (8–10 mo) DBA2J retina relative to levels in age-matched D2 control retina; both calculated relative to 18s rRNA. Trpv1 mRNA correlates significantly with intraocular pressure for the 3–5 mo group (r2 = 0.656, P < 0.001) but not for the 8–10 mo group (r2 = 0.17, p = 0.17). Some data modified from recent work.35 In contrast, while expression of Trpv4 mRNA is higher than Trpv1 (E), levels are inversely correlated with increasing pressure for the 3–5 mo group (r2 = 0.79, P < 0.001), but not for the 8–10 mo group (r2 = 0.26, p = 0.091)
Article Snippet: Fluorescent in situ hybridization with immuno-labeling We generated Trpv1 mRNA probes for mouse tissue as described in our published protocol, using RNA extracted from C57BL/6 mouse brain (Qiagen Inc.. USA, Valencia, CA) and first-strand cDNA synthesis using Superscript III reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen) 35,82 An antisense probe recognizingTrpv1 mRNA was made against a nucleotide sequence present in mouse Trpv1 (nucleotides 226 to 500 of [GenBank: {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"NM_001001445","term_id":"676260266","term_text":"NM_001001445"}} NM_001001445 ]).
Techniques: Western Blot, Immunoprecipitation, Binding Assay, Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Modification, Expressing