Fig. 1.
PPARα deficiency results in impaired ADAM10 expression. (A–D) Quantitative PCR results of Adam10 (A), Adam17 (B), Bace1 (C), and Psen1 (D) mRNA expression in the hippocampus and cortex of 4-mo-old WT Ppara−/− and Pparb−/− animals or in WT neurons knocked down for PPARγ (PpargKD). Values are corrected for Gapdh and are expressed as percentage of WT. (E) Subcellular and detergent-soluble (1% CHAPS) expression of precursor (pA10) and mature (mA10) ADAM10 and COOH terminus cleaved ADAM10 (A10CTF) or precursor (pA17) and mature (mA17) ADAM17 in hippocampi from 4-mo-old WT animals. (F–J) Representative immunoblots (F) and quantification of pA10 (G), mA10 (H), A10CTF, pA17 (I), mA17 (J), and A17CTF membrane expression in the hippocampus and cortex of 4-mo-old WT, Ppara−/− and Pparb−/− animals or in 18DIV PpargKD neurons. (K and L) Representative immunoblots of detergent-soluble BACE1 (K), N-terminal and C-terminal presenilin-1 (PS1NT and PS1CT, respectively) (L) expression in the hippocampus of 4-mo-old Ppara WT (+/+) and null (−/−) animals. Values are corrected for α-tubulin, indicate the mean ± SEM relative to WT, and represent n = 3 or 4 for each genotype. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 using one-way ANOVA. Ctx, cortex; Hpc, hippocampus; KD, knockdown; Neu, neurons; OD, relative optical density. ●, nonspecific band.
