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Glycoconjugates on corneal epithelial surface: effect of neuraminidase treatment

LD Hazlett and P Mathieu

Department of Anatomy/Cell Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201.

The purpose of this study was to develop a procedure to quantitatively examine corneal epithelial apical cell membrane-associated glycoconjugates. Saccharide moieties on young, mature, and aged corneal epithelial cells were detected and localized in corneas of immature and adult mice by using colloidal gold-labeled lectins and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In general, dense binding to the corneal epithelial apical surface cell membranes with wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) was seen in the adult, whereas the immature cornea bound less WGA- gold. Neuraminidase digestion decreased binding of the conjugate on epithelial plasma membranes of young and mature cells in adult cornea. Lectin-gold binding was decreased in the immature cornea on mature and aged cells. WGA-gold binding after neuraminidase was elevated on young cells of immature and on aged cells of adult animals. No binding of peanut agglutinin (PNA) or horse gram agglutinin (DBA) to the corneal epithelial surface was seen in animals of either age. After neuraminidase digestion, PNA binding sites were exposed only on the adult corneal surface. These data suggest that a terminal trisaccharide sequence, sialic acid-galactose beta(1----3)-N-acetylgalactosamine, is present at the adult corneal surface but is absent or at undetectable levels at the corneal surface of the immature animal. These data may be of significance in light of the dissimilar pattern of P. aeruginosa recognition and binding to the immature vs adult corneal epithelium.

Volume 37, Issue 8, pp. 1215-1224, 08/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by The Histochemical Society


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