Intermediate Filament Proteins of Mid‐Gestation Trophoblast Giant Cells Are Simple Epithelial Cytokeratins a
Intermediate Filament Proteins of Mid‐Gestation Trophoblast Giant Cells Are Simple Epithelial Cytokeratins a
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妊娠中期滋养层巨细胞的中间丝蛋白是简单的上皮细胞角蛋白
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1985
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J. Julian
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S. Glasser;J. Julian
The intermediate filament (IF) proteins of preimplantation murine blastocysts have been previously identified as cytokeratins' although this has been questioned by others.*.' At implantation, rodent trophectoderm, the first embryonic cell to exhibit intermediate filaments, begins to differentiate into trophoblast giant cells (TGC). Morphologically, TGC are giant, nondividing, polyploid, and polytene. Functionally, TGC express secretory programs for proteolytic enzymes, steroids, and, at mid-gestation, a peptide hormone, placental lactogen. Because morphological and functional differentiation have been linked to changes in expression of IF proteins, we analyzed IF of mid-gestation rat TGC. In FIGURE 1, the high salt, non-ionic detergent-resistant proteins of rat day 12 TGC (day 0 = day of vaginal plug) are compared by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) to cytokeratins from various rat simple epithelia. In addition to the two major IF proteins (54K and 46K) noted by previous investigators in preimplantation blastocysts,' there are two lesser proteins at 52K and 40K. Qualitatively this IF profile appears identical to that of simple epithelial cells. IF proteins from TGC and adult rat liver with identical migration coefficients exhibited identical banding patterns when excised from two-dimensional PAGE and subjected to partial digestion by Staphylococcus aureus protease. The identity of the four TGC IF proteins as cytokeratins was verified by indirect immunofluorescence and electrophoretic immunoblot of oneand two-dimensional PAGE. On immunoblots of two-dimensional PAGE, antibodies prepared against simple, stratified, or keratinized epithelial keratins recognized various TGC IF proteins, although all four proteins were recognized by one or more of the anti-keratins. On immunoblots of one-dimensional PAGE, the same bands were recognized in TGC and simple epithelial IF. No bands were recognized in IF preparations from mesenchymal cells (adult rat uterine stroma and adult rat spleen), indicating specificity of the antibodies for keratins. Results of the immunoblot experiments are also summarized in TABLE 1. Indirect immunofluorescence results agreed with the immunoblot results. Antibodies recognizing one or more simple epithelial cytokeratins on immunoblots decorated filament networks in TGC, adult rat uterine epithelium, and day 12 parietal