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PMID:11799145

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Holdengreber, V, Krieger, C, Gütlich, M, Schramek, N, Vechoropoulos, M, Fischer, M, Bacher, A and Ben-Shaul, Y (2002) Localization of two enzymes of the tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthetic pathway in embryonic chick retina. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 50:265-74

Abstract

Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential co-factor for the biosynthesis of catecholamine-type neurotransmitters and of nitric oxide (NO). The expression of the enzymes catalyzing the first two steps of the BH4 biosynthetic pathway was studied in the developing chicken retina by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry. GTP-cyclohydrolase-I (GTP-CH-I) and 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase (PTPS) were already expressed in the undifferentiated and proliferating retina of E7. At stage E11 both enzymes were expressed in photoreceptors, amacrine cells, displaced amacrine cells, and ganglion cells, and in the plexiform layers in which synaptic connections take place. At stage E18 the labeling was comparable to E11 but appeared to be more concentrated in photoreceptors and ganglion cells.

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Animals; Base Sequence; Chick Embryo; Cloning, Molecular; GTP Cyclohydrolase/genetics; GTP Cyclohydrolase/metabolism; Immunohistochemistry; In Situ Hybridization; Molecular Sequence Data; Phosphorus-Oxygen Lyases/genetics; Phosphorus-Oxygen Lyases/metabolism; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Pterins/metabolism; RNA, Messenger/metabolism; Retina/embryology; Retina/enzymology; Retina/metabolism

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