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Carbonic anhydrase III in skeletal muscle fibers: an immunocytochemical and biochemical study
P Fremont, PM Charest, C Cote and PA Rogers
Muscle Biology Research Group, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada.
The objectives of the present study were to determine if carbonic anhydrase III (CA III) demonstrated a specific association for any particular organelle or structure of the skeletal muscle cell and to quantify the activity and content of this enzyme in different types of skeletal muscle fibers. Ultrastructural localization of CA III in the soleus (SOL), deep vastus lateralis (DVL), and superficial vastus lateralis (SVL), composed of predominantly type I, IIa, and IIb fibers, respectively, was performed using a high-resolution immunocytochemical technique and antibody specific for CA III on ultra-thin sections of skeletal muscle embedded in the water-soluble medium polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). The results indicated a uniform distribution of CA III within the sarcomere. Mitochondria, nuclei, triads, Z-, and M-bands were not specifically labeled. Immunoblotting of washed myofibril preparations did not show any detectable CA III associated with this structure. In addition to quantification of the immunogold labeling, CA III activity and content were assayed in the post-mitochondrial supernatant of the three muscles. In the SOL, these values were found to be 3.6-7.6 times higher than in the DVL. The SVL showed a labeling intensity slightly higher than background level, while the enzyme activity and content were indistinguishable from background levels. We therefore conclude that CA III is randomly distributed in the cytoplasm of the three muscle fiber types and that the relative CA III content and activity in the three muscles studied is SOL greater than DVL greater than SVL approximately equal to 0.
Volume 36,
Issue 7,
pp. 775-782,
07/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by The Histochemical Society
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