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Zinc-containing 7S-NGF complex. Evidence from zinc histochemistry for localization in salivary secretory granules
CJ Frederickson, J Perez-Clausell and G Danscher
7S-NGF is a pro-protein containing a neurotrophic subunit, beta-NGF, which has been localized by immunocytochemistry to the granules of granular convoluted tubule (GCT) cells in certain murine salivary glands [Watson et al., Anat Rec (1985) 213:365]. The 7S-NGF pro-protein contains zinc and is stabilized by zinc ions [Pattison and Dunn, Biochemistry (1976) 15:3696]. In the present work, dithizone, toluene sulfonamide quinoline (TSQ), and neo-Timm's methods for zinc were used to determine whether zinc histochemistry could be used to visualize the zinc associated with the 7S-NGF complex and, if so, whether zinc histochemistry might corroborate the reported localization of the 7S- NGF complex in GCT secretory granules. The results indicate that intensity of zinc staining varies with the reported variations in NGF levels in different salivary glands, and that the zinc is selectively concentrated in the GCT secretory granules. We suggest that zinc histochemistry may be a useful marker for the presence of the zinc- stabilized 7S-NGF pro-protein.
Volume 35,
Issue 5,
pp. 579-583,
05/01/1987
Copyright © 1987 by The Histochemical Society
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