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High-resolution immunogold localization of Giardia cyst wall antigens using field emission SEM with secondary and backscatter electron imaging
SL Erlandsen, WJ Bemrick, DE Schupp, JM Shields, EL Jarroll, JF Sauch and JB Pawley
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
We describe here the ultrastructural localization of Giardia cyst antigens in the filaments associated with the outer portion of intact cysts and on developing cyst wall filaments in encysting trophozoites. Post-embedding immunogold labeling of thin sections of intact Giardia cysts with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies specific for cyst wall antigens (major protein bands of approximately 29, 75, 88, and 102 KD on Western blots) showed strong labeling of the filamentous cyst wall, whereas no labeling was seen on the membranous portion. High-resolution field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) of Giardia cysts revealed that the cyst wall-specific polyclonal rabbit antisera and monoclonal mouse antibody produced gold labeling of 20-nm filaments in the cyst wall as detected with secondary electron imaging (SEI) and backscatter electron imaging (BEI) at 10 kV, despite coating of the cells with platinum by ion sputtering. FESEM studies of encysting Giardia trophozoites demonstrated that immunostaining with antibodies to cyst wall antigens produced colloidal gold labeling of developing cyst wall filaments on the cell surface; however, the intervening membrane domains were unlabeled. Substitution of normal serum for cyst wall-specific antibodies, or preabsorption of specific antibodies with Giardia cysts, eliminated immunolabeling of the filaments.
Volume 38,
Issue 5,
pp. 625-632,
05/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by The Histochemical Society
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