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Localization of urate oxidase in the crystalline cores of rat liver peroxisomes by immunocytochemistry and immunoblotting

A Volkl, E Baumgart and HD Fahimi

Department of Anatomy, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany.

We investigated the immunocytochemical localization of urate oxidase by light and electron microscopy. Rabbits were immunized with urate oxidase prepared from rat liver and the resulting antibody was further purified by affinity chromatography. Immunoblotting of the antigen revealed a single band of Mr 32,500 daltons, consistent with a subunit of uricase. The same band was observed in immunoblots prepared from a total peroxisome fraction and in its subfraction containing the cores, but not in the matrix portion. Immunostaining of 1-micron sections with the antibody against uricase followed by protein A-gold-silver showed fine granules in hepatocytes, which exhibited distinct fluorescence when examined in a microscope equipped with epifluorescence illumination. Incubation of ultra-thin sections of rat liver, embedded in Lowicryl K4M, LR White, or Epon, with the anti-uricase antibody followed by protein A-gold showed prominent labeling of the crystalline cores, with no reaction in the surrounding peroxisomal matrix. In contrast, the core region was spared whereas the matrix was heavily labeled in sections incubated with an antibody against catalase. Direct incubation of cores, isolated by centrifugation, with the anti-uricase antibody followed by protein A-gold revealed gold particles on the surface of isolated cores, with rare particles within the lumen of the polytubular structures that make up the cores. Specificity of the immunolabeling was established in sections incubated with an IgG fraction from pre-immunized rabbits. These observations demonstrate that in normal rat liver urate oxidase is exclusively associated with the crystalline cores in peroxisomes.

Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 329-336, 04/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by The Histochemical Society


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