The aim of the present investigation was to study the effects of choline and choline-containing phospholipids CDP-choline (CDPC) and L-alpha-glyceryl-phosphorylcholine (AGPC) on transglutaminase (TG) activity and expression in primary astrocyte cultures. TG is an important Ca(2+)-dependent protein that represents a normal constituent of nervous systems during fetal stages of development, playing a role in cell signal transduction, differentiation, and apoptosis. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) analysis showed an increase of TG activity in astrocyte cultures treated with choline, CDPC, or AGPC at 0.1 microM or 1 microM concentrations. Comparatively, AGPC induced the most conspicuous effects enhancing monodansyl-cadaverine fluorescence both in cytosol and in nuclei, supporting the evidence of the important role played by AGPC throughout differentiation processes tightly correlated to nucleus-cytosol cross- talk during astroglial cells proliferation and development. Western blot analysis showed that in 24h 1 microM AGPC and choline-treated astrocytes increased TG-2, whereas no effect was observed in 24h 1 microM CDP-choline treated astrocytes. Our data suggest a crucial role of choline precursors during different stages of astroglial cell proliferation and differentiation in cultures.
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