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Widespread occurrence of chromogranins/secretogranins in the matrix of secretory granules of endocrinologically silent pituitary adenomas
P Rosa, M Bassetti, U Weiss and WB Huttner
Department of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Italy.
To investigate the constituents of the matrix of endocrine secretory granules, we analyzed endocrinoilogically silent ("non-functioning") human pituitary adenomas for the occurrence of the chromogranins/secretogranins (granins), a protein family normally stored together with many different hormones. When five non-functioning pituitary adenomas were analyzed by immunoblotting using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies specific for individual members of the granin family, chromogranin A was detected in four cases and chromogranin B and secretogranin II were detected in all cases. The cellular distribution of the granins and of various hormones known to be expressed in the anterior pituitary was studied by immunocytochemistry in fixed, frozen tissue sections from five additional adenomas. Of the eight hormones investigated, only thyroid-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, and follicle-stimulating hormone were detected, occurring in only two of the five adenomas. In contrast, granins were found in all five tumors. Chromogranin B and secretogranin II were detected in each of the adenomas in virtually every cell studied, whereas chromogranin A exhibited such a widespread cell distribution in only three adenomas, being focally present in one and absent from the other tumor. The subcellular localization of the granins and the three glycoprotein hormones was investigated by double immunoelectron microscopy. Chromogranin A and chromogranin B were mainly co-localized in secretory granules, whereas secretogranin II was either co-localized with the other two granins or segregated to different secretory granules. When present, glycoprotein hormones were immunodetected in both the secretory granules containing all three granins and those containing mainly secretogranin II. Our data indicate that in non- functioning pituitary adenomas chromogranin A is differentially expressed from chromogranin B and secretogranin II. Moreover, the granins appear to be the most widespread constituents of endocrine secretory granules known, forming the dense-core matrix irrespective of the presence or absence of hormones.
Volume 40,
Issue 4,
pp. 523-533,
04/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society
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