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N-acetylated alpha-linked acidic dipeptidase (NAALADase) hydrolyzes acidic peptides, such as the abundant neuropeptide N-acetyl-alpha-L-aspartyl-L-glutamate (NAAG), thereby generating glutamate. Previous cDNA cloning efforts have identified a candidate rat brain NAALADase partial cDNA, and Northern analyses have identified a family of related RNA species that are found only in brain and other NAALADase-expressing cells. In this report, we describe the cloning of a set of rat brain cDNAs that describe a full-length NAALADase mRNA. Transient transfection of a full-length cDNA into the PC3 cell line confers NAAG-hydrolyzing activity that is sensitive to the NAALADase inhibitors quisqualic acid and 2-(phosphonomethyl)glutaric acid. Northern hybridization detects the expression of three similar brain RNAs approximately 3,900, 3,000, and 2,800 nucleotides in length. In situ hybridization histochemistry shows that NAALADase-related mRNAs have an uneven regional distribution in rat brain and are expressed predominantly by astrocytes as demonstrated by their colocalization with the astrocyte-specific marker glial fibrillary acidic protein.
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