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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 40, 153-164, Copyright © 1989 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Immunocytochemical localization and lectin-binding properties of the 22 kDa secretory protein from rat ventral prostate

M Carmo-Fonseca and Y Vaz
Department of Cell Biology, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oerias, Portugal.

The distribution of the 22 kDa secretory protein from rat ventral prostate was studied by light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. An anti-22 kDa protein antiserum was raised in rabbits and its specificity was tested by Western blotting. With the immunofluorescence technique, the 22 kDa protein was detected in the luminal secretions and intracellular apical granules of the ventral prostate. No reaction was observed in the seminal vesicle or dorsolateral prostate. After castration, no intracellular immunoreactivity was detected in ventral prostate, although positively labeled secretory material was retained within the acinar lumen. Restoration of normal intracellular staining pattern was incomplete after 5 daily testosterone injections. At the ultrastructural level, labeling was confined to apical secretory granules and condensing vacuoles. The 22 kDa protein separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate- polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and transferred to nitrocellulose was shown to bind intensely to wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) but only faintly to Concanavalin A. This protein was thus demonstrated to contain N-acetylglucosamine residues. Accordingly, on tissue sections, WGA reacted intensely with condensing vacuoles and secretory granules.




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