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Direct visualization of copper-metallothionein in LEC rat kidneys: application of autofluorescence signal of copper-thiolate cluster
M Okabe, K Nakayama, M Kurasaki, F Yamasaki, K Aoyagi, O Yamanoshita, S Sato, T Okui, T Ohyama and N Kasai
Department of Environmental Medicine and Informatics, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
We report on the histochemistry of copper-metallothionein (Cu-MT) in the kidneys of Long Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats. We used the visualization principle of histochemistry based on the autofluorescence emission from the fluorophore of Cu(+)-thiolate clusters in proteins. Intense autofluorescence signals were observed with a ring at the outer stripe of the outer medulla. Orange fluorescence signals were observed in the nuclei and cytoplasm of proximal straight tubular (PST) cells of segment 3 (S3) at the outer stripe of the outer medulla, and yellow- orange signals were detected in lysosome-like organelles in the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) cells of segments 1 and 2 (S1 and S2) adjacent to the glomeruli in the cortex. These fluorescent materials were identified as Cu-MT because both signals were quenched by withdrawing Cu+ or by blocking cysteine residues, the distributions of cysteine residues and immunoreactive MT showed identical patterns to the localization of the fluorescence signals, and the fluorescent proteins containing Cu were eluted at the same Kd value of purified Cu- MT by gel filtration chromatography. However, a high level of MT mRNA was detected only in the outer stripe of the outer medulla where the orange fluorescence signals were detected, but not in the cortex. This difference in localization between the protein and the mRNA suggested that synthesis of renal MT occurs do novo in the outer stripe of the outer medulla. The yellow-orange fluorescent Cu-MT located in the lysosomal organelles at S1 and S2 of the PCT cells in the cortex could be Cu-MT of nonrenal origin, i.e., Cu-MT transported from other organs.
Volume 44,
Issue 8,
pp. 865-873,
08/01/1996
Copyright © 1996 by The Histochemical Society
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