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Zweibaum A, Laburthe M, Grasset E, Louvard D. Use of Cultured Cell Lines in Studies of Intestinal Cell Differentiation and Function. Compr Physiol 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp060407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Maroux S, Feracci H, Gorvel JP, Benajiba A. Aminopeptidases and proteolipids of intestinal brush border. CIBA FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2008; 95:34-49. [PMID: 6342998 DOI: 10.1002/9780470720769.ch4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The presence of human blood group A determinants has been shown on the A+ rabbit intestinal brush border glycoproteins, particularly hydrolases. Sugar compositions of aminopeptidases N from A+ and A- rabbits were compatible with the presence in these molecules of eight N-linked glycans and of two O-linked glycans bearing the A determinants in A+ animals. The exact relative molecular masses of hydrophobic domain(s) of aminopeptidases N and A from pig and rabbit intestinal brush border have been determined by an isotopic dilution technique. The values obtained were compatible with the anchorage in the membrane of the monomeric rabbit enzymes, or of each subunit of the dimeric pig enzymes, by their N-terminal sequences, composed of 20-25 hydrophobic amino acids. This N-terminal hydrophobic sequence (14 residues) has been determined for rabbit aminopeptidase N. Short peptides containing approximately 60% hydrophobic amino acids have been extracted by chloroform-methanol from purified brush border and basolateral membranes of pig enterocytes. Their molecular properties were very similar to those of the aminopeptidase anchors released by trypsin treatment of detergent-extracted enzymes. However, several lines of evidence failed to support the assumption that these free hydrophobic peptides can be identified with anchors left inside the bilayer after proteolytic cleavage of surface hydrolases.
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Balanzino LE, Barra JL, Galván EM, Roth GA, Monferran CG. Interaction of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin with glycoconjugates from rabbit intestinal brush border membranes: relationship with ABH blood group determinants. Mol Cell Biochem 1999; 194:53-62. [PMID: 10391124 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006971913175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The capacity of cholera toxin (CT) and type I heat-labile enterotoxin produced by Escherichia coli isolated from human intestine (LTh) to interact with glycoconjugates bearing ABH blood group determinants from rabbit intestinal brush border membranes (BBM) was studied. On the basis of the type of intestinal compounds related to the human ABH blood group antigens, rabbits were classified as AB or H. Toxin binding to the intestinal glycolipids and glycoproteins depends on the blood group determinant borne by the glycoconjugate and on the analyzed toxin. LTh was capable of interacting preferentially with several blood group A- and B-active BBM glycolipids compared to those isolated from animals lacking these antigens (H rabbits). Also, LTh preferably bound to several BBM glycoproteins from AB rabbit intestines compared to those from H ones. One of these glycoproteins, the sucrase-isomaltase complex (EC 3.2.1.48-10) isolated from AB and H rabbits showed the same differential LTh binding. Conversely, CT practically did not recognize either blood group A-, B-, or H-active glycolipids and glycoproteins. These results may be relevant for carrying out in vivo experiments in rabbits in order to disclose the role of ABH active-glycoconjugates in the secretory response induced by LTh in rabbit intestine.
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- L E Balanzino
- Departamento de Química Biológica Dr. Ranwel Caputto - CIQUIBIC (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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Huet G, Hennebicq-Reig S, de Bolos C, Ulloa F, Lesuffleur T, Barbat A, Carrière V, Kim I, Real FX, Delannoy P, Zweibaum A. GalNAc-alpha-O-benzyl inhibits NeuAcalpha2-3 glycosylation and blocks the intracellular transport of apical glycoproteins and mucus in differentiated HT-29 cells. J Cell Biol 1998; 141:1311-22. [PMID: 9628888 PMCID: PMC2132799 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.141.6.1311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Exposure for 24 h of mucus-secreting HT-29 cells to the sugar analogue GalNAc-alpha-O-benzyl results in inhibition of Galbeta1-3GalNAc:alpha2,3-sialyltransferase, reduced mucin sialylation, and inhibition of their secretion (Huet, G., I. Kim, C. de Bolos, J.M. Loguidice, O. Moreau, B. Hémon, C. Richet, P. Delannoy, F.X. Real., and P. Degand. 1995. J. Cell Sci. 108:1275-1285). To determine the effects of prolonged inhibition of sialylation, differentiated HT-29 populations were grown under permanent exposure to GalNAc-alpha-O-benzyl. This results in not only inhibition of mucus secretion, but also in a dramatic swelling of the cells and the accumulation in intracytoplasmic vesicles of brush border-associated glycoproteins like dipeptidylpeptidase-IV, the mucin-like glycoprotein MUC1, and carcinoembryonic antigen which are no longer expressed at the apical membrane. The block occurs beyond the cis-Golgi as substantiated by endoglycosidase treatment and biosynthesis analysis. In contrast, the polarized expression of the basolateral glycoprotein GP 120 is not modified. Underlying these effects we found that (a) like in mucins, NeuAcalpha2-3Gal-R is expressed in the terminal position of the oligosaccharide species associated with the apical, but not the basolateral glycoproteins of the cells, and (b) treatment with GalNAc-alpha-O-benzyl results in an impairment of their sialylation. These effects are reversible upon removal of the drug. It is suggested that alpha2-3 sialylation is involved in apical targeting of brush border membrane glycoproteins and mucus secretion in HT-29 cells.
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- G Huet
- Unité de Recherches sur la Biologie et la Physiopathologie des Cellules Mucipares, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) U377, 59045 Lille Cedex, France
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Maury J, Bernadac A, Rigal A, Maroux S. Expression and glycosylation of the filamentous brush border glycocalyx (FBBG) during rabbit enterocyte differentiation along the crypt-villus axis. J Cell Sci 1995; 108 ( Pt 7):2705-13. [PMID: 7593311 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.108.7.2705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The filamentous brush border glycocalyx forming the ‘enteric surface coat’ of the intestinal epithelium is composed in rabbits of a 400 kDa mucin-type glycoprotein, which was purified using the 3A4 monoclonal antibody. This monoclonal antibody recognizes a filamentous brush border glycocalyx-specific glycosidic structure containing an O-acetylated sialic acid, which is absent from all the other glycoproteins in the epithelium, with the exception of certain goblet cell mucins. Here we establish that only 50% of the rabbits tested synthesized this glycosidic structure. Upon immunolabeling surface epithelia and sections of jejunum from these rabbits, the carbohydrate epitope recognized by the 3A4 mAb was found to be present on the filamentous brush border glycocalyx of a variable number of enterocytes, which were patchily distributed over all the villi. This heterogeneous expression of 3A4 antigenicity, which was also observed in the crypts, suggests the existence of differences between the patterns of differentiation of enterocytes, which results in the expression of different pools of glycosyltransferases and/or acetyl transferases. In mature enterocytes, the 3A4 determinants were present only on the filamentous brush border glycocalyx, which is anchored solely to the membrane microdomain at the tip of brush border microvilli. However, expression of 3A4 antigenicity begins in the median third of crypts, in enterocytes with a short, thin brush border devoid of apical filamentous brush border glycocalyx. Here the 3A4 epitopes were present over the whole brush border membrane.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J Maury
- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie de la Nutrition, CNRS-URA 1820, Faculté des Sciences de Saint Jéroôme, Marseille, France
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Balanzino LE, Barra JL, Monferran CG, Cumar FA. Differential interaction of Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin and cholera toxin with pig intestinal brush border glycoproteins depending on their ABH and related blood group antigenic determinants. Infect Immun 1994; 62:1460-4. [PMID: 7510669 PMCID: PMC186303 DOI: 10.1128/iai.62.4.1460-1464.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The ability of glycoproteins from pig intestinal brush border membranes (BBM) to bind cholera toxin (CT) or heat-labile toxins from strains of Escherichia coli isolated from human (LTh) or pig (LTp) intestines was studied. Glycoproteins capable of binding the toxins are also recognized by antibodies or lectins specific for ABO(H) blood group and related antigens. Pigs expressing A, H, or I antigenic determinants were used for comparison. The toxin-binding capacity of a glycoprotein depends on the toxin type and the blood group epitope borne by the glycoprotein. LTh and LTp preferably bound to several blood group A-active glycoproteins rather than H-active glycoproteins. By contrast, CT practically did not recognize either blood group A- or blood group H-active glycoproteins, while glycoproteins from pigs expressing I antigenic determinants were able to interact with LTh, LTp, and CT. LTh, LTp, or CT glycoprotein binding was selectively inhibited by specific lectins or monosaccharides. Affinity purification of the toxin binding brush border glycoproteins on the basis of their blood group reactivity suggests that such glycoproteins are hydrolytic enzymes. BBM from A+ pigs contain about 27 times more LTh binding sites, in addition to those recognized by CT, than an equivalent membrane preparation from H+ pigs. The present findings may help clarify some previous unclear results on LTh binding to intestinal BBM glycoproteins obtained by use of animals not typed by their ABO(H) blood group phenotype.
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- L E Balanzino
- Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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Gorvel JP, Ferrero A, Chambraud L, Rigal A, Bonicel J, Maroux S. Expression of sucrase-isomaltase and dipeptidylpeptidase IV in human small intestine and colon. Gastroenterology 1991; 101:618-25. [PMID: 1677636 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(91)90517-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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One monoclonal antibody (8A9) against the human sucrase-isomaltase complex and one (4H3) against the human dipeptidylpeptidase IV were produced in the rat and used to immunolabel thin frozen sections of human small intestine and colon. Both enzymes were found to be expressed in the poorly differentiated crypt cells of the small intestine as well as in the mature villous cells, and very low levels were found to be expressed in the colon. Homogeneous immunolabeling of the whole colonic epithelium with the monoclonal antibody 4H3 was often observed, whereas labeling with the monoclonal antibody 8A9, if any, was either restricted to a few crypts and plateaus. The two antibodies were used to perform specific immunoprecipitation of the corresponding antigen, the N-terminal sequence of which was determined after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis purification and electroblotting, and were compared with those of other species. In secretor blood group A humans, both the sucrase-isomaltase and the dipeptidylpeptidase IV have type 3 blood group A determinants.
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- J P Gorvel
- Centre de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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Gorvel JP, Mishal Z, Liegey F, Rigal A, Maroux S. Conformational change of rabbit aminopeptidase N into enterocyte plasma membrane domains analyzed by flow cytometry fluorescence energy transfer. J Cell Biol 1989; 108:2193-200. [PMID: 2472401 PMCID: PMC2115577 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.108.6.2193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Membrane vesicle preparations are very appropriate material for studying the topology of glycoproteins integrated into specialized plasma membrane domains of polarized cells. Here we show that the flow cytometric measurement of fluorescence energy transfer used previously to study the relationship between surface components of isolated cells can be applied to membrane vesicles. The fluorescein and rhodamine derivatives of a monoclonal antibody (4H7.1) that recognized one common epitope of the rabbit and pig aminopeptidase N were used for probing the oligomerization and conformational states of the enzyme integrated into the brush border and basolateral membrane vesicles prepared from rabbit and pig enterocytes. The high fluorescent energy transfer observed in the case of pig enzyme integrated into both types of vesicles and in the case of the rabbit enzyme integrated into basolateral membrane vesicles agreed very well with the existence of a dimeric organization, which was directly demonstrated by cross-linking experiments. Although with the latter technique we observed that the rabbit aminopeptidase was also dimerized in the brush border membrane, no energy transfer was detected with the corresponding vesicles. This indicates that the relative positions of two associated monomers differ depending on whether the rabbit aminopeptidase is transiently integrated into the basolateral membrane or permanently integrated into the brush border membrane. Cross-linking of aminopeptidases solubilized by detergent and of their ectodomains liberated by trypsin showed that only interactions between anchor domains maintained the dimeric structure of rabbit enzyme whereas interactions between ectodomains also exist in the pig enzyme. This might explain why the noticeable change in the organization of the two ectodomains observed in the case of rabbit aminopeptidase N does not occur in the case of pig enzyme.
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- J P Gorvel
- Centre de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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Maroux S, Coudrier E, Feracci H, Gorvel JP, Louvard D. Molecular organization of the intestinal brush border. Biochimie 1988; 70:1297-306. [PMID: 3147722 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(88)90198-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The brush border of enterocytes represents one of the more specialized apical poles of epithelial cells. It is formed by particularly well-developed apical plasma membrane microvilli, whose shape is ensured by a highly organized cytoskeleton. The molecular organization of the cytoskeleton is described. Whereas several cytoskeleton proteins are ubiquitous, villin is highly specific for intestinal cells and can be used as a differentiation marker of these cells. The major glycoproteins, in particular hydrolases, of the brush border membrane have been characterized. They have many common structural features, in particular their mode of integration into the membrane by their N-terminal hydrophobic sequences that also plays the role of the 'signal peptide' responsible for their co-translational insertions into the endoplasmic reticulum. Studies on the biosynthesis and intracellular pathway of aminopeptidase N strongly suggest that sorting of apical and basolateral glycoproteins could occur after their integration into the basolateral domain.
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Gorvel JP, Rigal A, Bernadac A, Maroux S. Further characterization of an early expressed glycoprotein of the rabbit small intestinal brush border. Its interaction with some hydrolases. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1986; 159:499-505. [PMID: 3758073 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1986.tb09914.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Mouse 23 B 921 monoclonal antibody recognized a rabbit brush-border antigen with an apparent molecular mass 140 kDa (140-kDa Ag) which, unlike most hydrolases, is expressed in the poorly differentiated crypt cells of the small intestine. Immunoelectron microscopy of brush-border vesicles showed that the 23 B 921 bound to an epitope localized on the outside of the membrane. As is the case with hydrolases the external domain of the 140-kDa Ag constitutes the main part of the molecule, which can be released by papain treatment of brush-border vesicles. The presence of a small hydrophobic domain, anchoring the molecule into the membrane and responsible for its amphipatic character, was shown by its affinity for Triton-X114 micelles. The topological organization in the membrane of 140-kDa Ag seemed to be identical to that of hydrolases. Unlike hydrolases, however, the native structure of the antigen was found from its sensitivity to proteolysis to be very dependent on its integration into the lipid bilayer. Nevertheless, detergent-extracted 140-kDa Ag can be purified by immunoaffinity chromatography although it cannot be stocked for more than 48 h even in the presence of protease inhibitors. The carbohydrate moiety of 140-kDa Ag, bearing the human blood group A determinant, amounts to 20% of the total molecular mass. The existence of some privileged relationship was established between 140-kDa Ag and hydrolases: in the membrane, hydrolases protect the 140-kDa Ag from papain action; after detergent extraction, 140-kDa Ag is strongly associated with several hydrolases particularly disaccharidases.
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Massey D, Maroux S. The carbohydrate moiety of aminopeptidase N of rabbit intestinal brush-border membrane. FEBS Lett 1985; 181:207-10. [PMID: 2578983 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80261-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Endoglycosidase F was used to eliminate the N-linked complex glycans from intestinal aminopeptidase N. The glycans which were probably O-linked remaining after the endoglycosidase F treatment exhibited the human blood group A and H determinants expressed in enzymes from A+ or A- rabbits, respectively. The molecular mass estimation of the two types of glycans by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and the sugar composition of aminopeptidase from A+ and A- rabbits strongly suggested the presence of eight N-linked complex glycans and two O-linked oligosaccharides bearing the human group antigenicity.
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Feracci H, Rigal A, Maroux S. Biosynthesis and intracellular pool of aminopeptidase N in rabbit enterocytes. J Membr Biol 1985; 83:139-46. [PMID: 2860249 DOI: 10.1007/bf01868745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A papain treatment at 15 degrees C and pH 7.3 of a microsomal fraction from rabbit enterocytes quantitatively releases the aminopeptidase N integrated in the plasma membranes without solubilizing the enzyme integrated in the intracellular membranes. Working on A+ rabbits, characterized by the presence on the brush-border hydrolases of glycans corresponding to the human blood group A-determinant structure, it was possible to separate the intracellular aminopeptidase into two major molecular forms with or without these determinants. The molecular form devoid of human blood group A antigenicity corresponds to the only stable intermediate of glycosylation, bearing N-linked high mannose oligosaccharides. This endoglycosidase H-sensitive form is fully active and represents in the steady state about 1% of the total cellular aminopeptidase. It contains a cytoplasmic sequence of about 3000 daltons that has not yet been detected in the mature form. The A antigenicity is acquired simultaneously with processing of high mannose glycans to complex glycans. Pulse chase labeling of jejunum loops with [35S]-methionine showed that the complete processing of the transient form synthesized during 10 min takes 1 hr. During the last 30 min of processing, all the newly transformed molecules are transported to the plasma membrane.
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Gorvel JP, Rigal A, Sarles J, Maroux S. Aminopeptidase N- and human blood group A-antigenicity along the digestive tract and associated glands in the rabbit. Cell Tissue Res 1985; 239:241-8. [PMID: 2857112 DOI: 10.1007/bf00214925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The cellular localization of an aminopeptidase N homologous to the brush-border intestinal enzyme and that of human blood group A-substances were investigated using the immunofluorescence technique on thin frozen sections (200 nm) of the digestive tract and associated glands of A+ and A- rabbits. Aminopeptidase N was found to be a common specific marker of both the apical region of plasma membrane of acinar cells in submaxillary and parotid glands and pancreas and the brush border of jejunum and colon absorbing cells. In hepatocytes, the enzyme was localized in the sinusoidal domains. Soluble A-substances were present in mucus secretory granules of intestinal goblet cells and those of stomach and gall bladder mucous cells. In contrast, the mucous acini of sublingual and submaxillary glands were devoid of A-antigenicity. The columnar cells of striated ducts of these glands exhibited A-antigenicity. Soluble A-substances were also found in zymogen granules of parotid and pancreas acinar cells and those of stomach chief cells. Moreover, in all cells secreting A-substances, and in the non-secreting absorbing intestinal cells, the glycoproteins of the plasma membrane bore A-determinants. Aminopeptidase N was one of the membrane-bound glycoproteins that bore A-determinants in cells that expressed A-antigenicity.
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Zweibaum A, Hauri HP, Sterchi E, Chantret I, Haffen K, Bamat J, Sordat B. Immunohistological evidence, obtained with monoclonal antibodies, of small intestinal brush border hydrolases in human colon cancers and foetal colons. Int J Cancer 1984; 34:591-8. [PMID: 6389373 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910340502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The expression of small intestinal hydrolases associated with the enterocyte brush border membrane was studied in human colon cancers and foetal colons, by means of monoclonal antibodies against human small intestinal sucrase-isomaltase (SI), maltase-glucoamylase (MGA), lactase (L), aminopeptidase N (APN), and dipeptidylpeptidase IV (DPP-IV). The enzymes were visualized by indirect immunofluorescence on cryostat sections of tumors developed in nude mice with 6 human colon carcinoma cell lines (HT-29, Caco-2, SW-480, HRT-18, HCT-8R, and Co-115), of 27 primary colorectal carcinomas from patients, and of human foetal (16 to 20 weeks of gestation) and normal adult small intestines and colons. All 5 monoclonals bound to the brush border of the adult small intestine, but not to that of the adult colon mucosa. Antibodies against SI, APN and DPP-IV also bound to the brush border of the foetal colons, to apical borders in HT-29 and Caco-2 tumors in nude mice, and to brush border-like structures in 7/27 tumors from patients. No binding was observed for MGA and L in either tumors or foetal colons. Binding of anti-SI antibodies to the brush border of the juxta-tumoral mucosal epithelium was observed in 9/11 samples tested. These data indicate that some colon tumors exhibit a typical pattern of enterocytic differentiation which is of foetal type and which involves at least 3 brush border membrane hydrolases. Monoclonal antibodies to small intestinal hydrolases may, therefore, be important tools for identification and characterization of some differentiated colonic tumors.
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Triadou N. Antigenic cross-reactions among human intestinal brush-border enzymes revealed by the immunoblotting method and rabbit anti-enzyme sera. J Immunol Methods 1984; 73:283-91. [PMID: 6208283 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(84)90403-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Antibodies against 3 purified human small intestinal brush-border hydrolases (sucrase-isomaltase, maltase-glucoamylase and neutral aminopeptidase) were produced in rabbits. By double immunodiffusion and crossed immunoelectrophoresis the antisera appeared to be monospecific. However, with the immunoblotting method antibodies reacting with many brush-border proteins were detected. In one case, the cross-reactions were due to the presence of anti-A antibodies. In other cases absorption of the antisera with absorbants with blood group A and H activities did not eliminate these reactions. As the main brush-border proteins are glycosylated and share common lectin reactivities, it is possible that these antibodies are directed against carbohydrate antigens. The use of such antibodies for immunocytochemical methods and for immunoassays must be undertaken with caution. These principles are applicable to other antigen systems.
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