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Glycosaminoglycans of bovine aorta endothelial cells: identification and localization by use of a platelet factor 4-fluorescein probe

DI Silbert, PJ Gill, DE Humphries, JE Silbert, LA Culp and CK Silbert

Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Boston, MA 02115.

We utilized platelet factor 4 (PF4) conjugated to fluorescein to stain the proteoglycans of permeabilized fixed bovine aorta endothelial cells in monolayer culture. Treatment of the monolayers with chondroitin ABC lyase and/or a preparation from Flavobacterium heparinum was used to remove chondroitin sulfate and/or heparan sulfate before staining, with resultant separate identification and partial localization of these glycosaminoglycans. When PF4-fluorescein was utilized with untreated control monolayers, fairly uniform reticular, perinuclear, and cell surface fluorescence was seen. After treatment with chondroitin ABC lyase, fluorescence was retained only on the cell surface. In contrast, treatment with the F. heparinum preparation resulted in the loss of all cell surface fluorescence. Use of both glycosaminoglycan lyases together resulted in loss of essentially all the fluorescence. The cell surface heparan sulfate observed by fluorescence after removal of cell surface chondroitin sulfate appeared to be unevenly distributed, with a heavier accumulation at one pole of each cell. This technique offers a specific method for identification and partial localization of cell surface heparan sulfate.

Volume 38, Issue 4, pp. 589-593, 04/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by The Histochemical Society


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