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Colloidal alpha-stannic acid and negative iron colloid as differential electron stains for surface proteins

PR Blanquet and E Puvion

Colloidal alpha-stannic acid and a negative iron colloid obtained from ferric hydroxide and potassium ferrocyanide, both negative sols being stable within a wide pH range, were refined as surface protein electron markers. Because of the relatively small size of its particles, colloidal alpha-stannic acid was used for staining all surface proteins. According to the pH at which the negative iron colloid was applied, it revealed either all surface proteins, or because of its large colloidal particles, stained basic proteins. This differential staining capability of the iron colloidal has been demonstrated previously on various control preparations (Puvion E, Blanquet PR: J Microsc 12:171, 1971). Controls on the affinity of the two colloids to surface amino groups were carried out on rat liver, mouse fibroblasts, HeLa and KB cells, Ehrlich and Zajdela ascites cells subjected to prior enzymatic and chemical treatments (incubation with neuraminidase or phospholipase C, esterification, acetylation or lipid extraction). At any pH below 9, the two sols stained proteins in the outer hydrophilic leaflet of esterified cells with relative selectivity, but the alpha- stannic acid showed them more accurately. The iron sol did reveal at high pH protein components of high isoionic point on the surfaces of rat hepatocytes and ascites cells which had only been treated with neuraminidase.

Volume 23, Issue 3, pp. 174-186, 03/01/1975
Copyright © 1975 by The Histochemical Society


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