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The 4S polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-binding protein: immunohistochemical localization in mice

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authors

  • Forkert, P. G.
  • Barton, H. A.
  • Costantini, M. G.
  • Marletta, Michael

publication date

  • October 1990

journal

  • Carcinogenesis  Journal

abstract

  • The 4S polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-binding protein (PBP) is a cytoplasmic protein that binds PAHs with specificity and high affinity. We have used antisera for the PBP and unlabeled peroxidase anti-peroxidase immunohistochemistry to demonstrate its possible localization in cell types known to have xenobiotic metabolizing capabilities. Cellular sites of the PBP in liver, lung and kidney of C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice were probed. The PBP was visualized in hepatocytes throughout the liver lobule and was not preferentially located in either centrilobular or periportal areas. However, cellular heterogeneity with respect to PBP content was clearly evident in the hepatocyte population. The positive reactivity correlated with substantial levels of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) binding in liver cytosol. In the lung, the PBP was found in the bronchiolar epithelium and the alveolar septa, and was localized in ciliated and non-ciliated Clara and alveolar type II cells as well as in alveolar macrophages. In the kidney, the glomeruli and epithelia of proximal and distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts were labeled. Staining for the PBP was greatest in the apical region of the pyramid and was localized in the epithelial lining of the collecting ducts. Relatively lower levels of the PBP were detected in the lung and kidney than in the liver. Staining was localized in the cytoplasmic compartment of cells in all tissues examined. Similar immunoreactivities were exhibited in the tissues of both C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice. Treatment with beta-naphthoflavone (beta NF) altered neither the intensity nor pattern of immunostaining. Furthermore, treatment with beta NF or isosafrole has no effect on the Kd and Bmax of B[a]P binding to liver cytosolic PBP. The results of our experiments demonstrate localization of the PBP to sites of active physiological response to PAH exposure.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Benzoflavones
  • Carcinogens
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
  • Cytosol
  • Glycine N-Methyltransferase
  • Immunoenzyme Techniques
  • Kidney
  • Kinetics
  • Liver
  • Lung
  • Male
  • Methyltransferases
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Inbred DBA
  • Polycyclic Compounds
  • Safrole
  • beta-Naphthoflavone
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0143-3334

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1093/carcin/11.10.1831

PubMed ID

  • 2208597
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start page

  • 1831

end page

  • 1835

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 10

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