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Histochemical and immunocytochemical localization of prolactin receptors on Nb2 lymphoma cells: applications of confocal microscopy

E Michel and JA Parsons

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455.

We studied prolactin (PRL) binding sites on Nb2 lymphoma cells using two different light microscopic methods. First, histochemical detection was accomplished by using an aminomethyl coumarin-acetic acid- conjugated ovine prolactin molecule (AMCA-oPRL) on both glutaraldehyde- fixed and unfixed Nb2 lymphoma cells. Binding of AMCA-oPRL was studied after UV illumination and appeared as punctate fluorescence associated with many but not all cells. Binding was abolished when tissue sections were treated with excess unlabeled lactogenic hormones and was unchanged when a non-lactogenic hormone was used for displacement. Counting revealed significant differences between the number of labeled cells in populations known to exhibit up- or down-regulated PRL receptors. Second, indirect immunocytochemistry of Nb2 PRL receptors was accomplished by immunological detection of exogenously added ovine PRL using two antisera directed against ovine PRL. Visualization of the ligand-antibody complexes was accomplished by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Staining was restricted to a subpopulation of cells. The morphological results presented here add to the previous physiological and biochemical data on the presence of lactogenic hormone receptors on Nb2 lymphoma cells.

Volume 38, Issue 7, pp. 965-973, 07/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by The Histochemical Society


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