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Expression of intermediate-sized filaments in developing and adult human kidney and in renal cell carcinoma
E Oosterwijk, GN Van Muijen, JC Oosterwijk-Wakka and SO Warnaar
Department of Pathology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
We studied the distribution of intermediate-sized filaments in developing and adult kidneys and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) by indirect immunohistochemistry, using a pan-cytokeratin mouse monoclonal antibody (MAb), chain-specific anti-cytokeratin MAb, and anti-vimentin and anti- desmin MAb, to resolve controversy concerning intermediate-sized filament expression in the kidney. With the pan-cytokeratin MAb, cytokeratin expression was detectable in all stages of nephron development, starting with expression in the renal vesicles, the progenitors of the glomeruli, proximal tubules, Henle's loop, and part of the distal tubules. Using chain-specific anti-cytokeratin MAb, cytokeratin 8 and 18 expression was demonstrated in all developmental structures of the nephron, whereas cytokeratin 19 expression was more complex. None of the nephrogenic blastema cells from which the renal vesicles arise expressed cytokeratins. Transient expression of vimentin and cytokeratin 19 was observed in differentiating collecting ducts and proximal tubule cells at the S-shaped stage of nephron development, respectively. In RCC, cytokeratin expression closely resembled that of the mature proximal tubule, i.e., RCC cells expressed cytokeratins 8 and 18. However, in a subset of RCC additional cytokeratin 19 expression was noted. In addition, all except one RCC showed co- expression of cytokeratins and vimentin.
Volume 38,
Issue 3,
pp. 385-392,
03/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by The Histochemical Society
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