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Ultrastructural localization of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphatase (NADPase) activity within columnar, goblet, and Paneth cells of rat small intestine

SM Parsons and CE Smith

The distribution of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphatase (NADPase) activity was examined in epithelial cells of rat small intestine. Segments of ileum were fixed with glutaraldehyde and tissue chopper sections were incubated for up to 4 hr at pH 5.0 in cytochemical media prepared with NADP as substrate. NADPase activity was found primarily within the Golgi saccules of columnar, goblet, and Paneth cells. Columnar and goblet cells showed most of the NADPase activity within the saccules which were intermediate between the cis and trans faces of the Golgi stack. Paneth cells, however, showed the heaviest staining within saccules between the intermediate and innermost saccule at the trans aspect of the Golgi stack. Both columnar cells and Paneth cells also contained spotty, and sometimes heavy, deposits of reaction product within an occasional focal area of the GERL system and within an occasional lysosome. Control experiments indicated that the Golgi-associated NADPase activity was enhanced if cells were pretreated for about 12 hr with EGTA prior to incubation. No similar enhancement was apparent if the tissues were pretreated with DMSO. Furthermore, NADPase activity within the Golgi saccules could be inhibited completely by incubating intestinal epithelial cells with NADP in the presence of sodium fluoride or L(+)-tartrate.

Volume 32, Issue 9, pp. 989-997, 09/01/1984
Copyright © 1984 by The Histochemical Society


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