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Subcellular distribution of secretogranins I and II in GH3 rat tumoral prolactin (PRL) cells as revealed by electron microscopic immunocytochemistry

C Tougard, LE Nasciutti, R Picart, A Tixier-Vidal and WB Huttner

Groupe de Neuroendocrinologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire, College de France, Paris.

The GH3 rat pituitary cell line which secretes prolactin (PRL) is characterized by the paucity and small size of secretory granules. We looked for the presence, in these cells and in normal PRL cells, of two acidic tyrosine-sulfated proteins which are widely distributed in dense- core secretory granules of endocrine and neuronal cells, secretogranins I and II, using immunofluorescence and electron microscope immunoperoxidase techniques. Both secretogranins were detected in secretory granules of GH3 cells and of normal cells. Moreover, with our pre-embedding approach, secretogranins were localized within some RER cisternae and within all sacules of the Golgi stacks in both PRL cell models. A few small vesicles, large dilated vacuolar or multivesicular structures, and some lysosome-like structures were also immunoreactive. Double localization of secretogranins and PRL performed on GH3 cells by immunofluorescence indicated that all cells contained secretogranins I and II, whereas only 50-70% of the cells contained PRL. Moreover, in the case of hormone treatment known to increase the number of secretory granules, most if not all mature secretory granules were immunoreactive for secretogranins, whereas in certain cells some of the granules were apparently not immunoreactive for PRL. These immunocytochemical observations show that GH3 cells, which under normal conditions form only a small number of secretory granules, produce secretogranins and package them into these granules.

Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 1329-1336, 09/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by The Histochemical Society


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