Immunofluorescent and immunochemical evidence for the expression of cytovillin in the microvilli of a wide range of cultured human cells
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
- Vol. 38 (1), 65-75
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.240380107
Abstract
We have previously purified a Mr 75,000 protein, cytovillin, from cultured human choriocarcinoma cells (JEG‐3) and shown that this protein was specifically confined to the microvillus membrane of these cells. I have now studied the expression and the subcellular distribution of cytovillin in eighteen normal and transformed human cell lines and strains by using immunoblotting and indirect immunofluorescence microscopy. In all cell types, cytovillin was highly enriched in cell surface protrusions. When cell types were ranked according to their staining intensity, choriocarcinoma was highest, then amniotic epithelial cells, other choriocarcinoma cells and tumor cells, and finally fibroblastoid cells. The latter only gave faint diffuse fluorescence on the plasma membrane and, occasionally, on the microvilli. However, detergent extracts of all cell types could be shown to contain cytovillin by the use of immunoblotting techniques. Metabolic pulse‐chase labelling experiments with JEG‐3 cells demonstrated synthesis of cytovillin as a single‐chain polypeptide. No precursor forms or specific proteolytic cleavage products could be seen either by immunoblotting or immunoprecipitation. The protein was found to be very stable with a biologic half‐life of about 25 hours. The pI determined by isoelectric focusing was 6.1. These results were consistent with cytovillin being an integral component of the microvilli and other surface extensions of all human cell types examined.Keywords
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