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Differential sensitivity of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, in Alzheimer's disease tissue to formalin fixation
NJ Pollock and JG Wood
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322.
Immunohistochemistry of formalin-fixed human Alzheimer's disease (AD) tissue using an anti-tau antibody (Tau-1) reveals staining of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and neuritic plaques (NPs), whereas normal axonal staining is less apparent. In this study, we used a combined biochemical and histochemical approach to assess effects of formalin on immunoreactivity of AD tau. Nitrocellulose blots were treated with fixative to mimic conditions used with tissue sections, a method that might be generally useful for assessing antigen sensitivity to different fixatives. A progressive decrease in Tau-1 immunoreactivity of the tau bands on a Western blot was observed with increasing times of formalin fixation. Phosphatase-digested blots demonstrated an increase in Tau-1 immunoreactivity compared to control blots. These results mimic the phosphatase-sensitive Tau-1 immunohistochemical staining of formalin-fixed AD tissue slices previously reported. Fixation of AD tissue with periodate-lysine- paraformaldehyde (PLP) preserves axonal tau antigenicity. Phosphatase digestion of PLP-fixed AD tissue enhances Tau-1 immunoreactivity of NFTs and NPs but does not alter axonal staining. These results indicate that axonal form(s) of tau are more sensitive to formalin fixation than pathology-associated tau. In addition, a modification of AD tau in pathological structures may protect it from the effects of formalin with regard to Tau-1 antigenicity.
Volume 36,
Issue 9,
pp. 1117-1121,
09/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by The Histochemical Society
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