| Literature DB >> 24963552 |
Alexander J Ogilvy1, Defen Shen, Yujuan Wang, Chi-Chao Chan, Mones S Abu-Asab.
Abstract
Extranuclear DNA (enDNA) is not well studied ultrastructurally in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). We analyzed the retina and vastus medialis muscle of four mouse strains that are related to focal retinal degeneration by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and EM immunolabeling. Evaluation of enDNA would imply the involvements of enDNA is either limited to the affected tissue or generalized in the whole body. Ultrastructural analysis and EM immunolabeling revealed that enDNA was present in the RPE cells but not in the muscle. These data suggest that enDNA could be unique to unhealthy RPE and a potential biomarker for cellular abnormality.Entities:
Keywords: Autophagy; RPE; enDNA; extranuclear DNA; hypoxia; mitochondria; retinal pigment epithelium; vastus medialis
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24963552 PMCID: PMC4174997 DOI: 10.3109/01913123.2014.927406
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ultrastruct Pathol ISSN: 0191-3123 Impact factor: 1.094