草鱼垂体生长激素分离纯化及其抗体制备的研究

应用碱性抽提,亲和层析,凝胶过滤和离子交换层析等技术从草鱼垂体中分离提纯出纯度高的草鱼生长激素（ｇｃＧＨ）用酶联免疫吸附测定法（ＥＬＩＳＡ）检测表明草鱼ＧＨ与大马哈鱼ＧＨ抗血清具有明显的免疫交叉反应,而与大马哈鱼催乳素（ＰＲＬ）抗血清没有交叉反应,聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳表明草鱼ＧＨ为单一蛋白带,其分子量约为２２５００道尔顿,等电聚焦揭示出草鱼ＧＨ主要由等电点为４．７和５．０的两条蛋白带组成,用纯化的草     

草鱼生长激素非竞争式酶联免疫吸附测定法的建立及鉴定

应用草鱼生长激素（ｇｃＧＨ）单克隆抗体及多价兔抗血清建立了草鱼ＧＨ非竞争式酶’联免疫吸附测定ＥＬＩＳＡ系统。用正辛酸法对腹水单抗进行了分离纯化,获得了高纯度的单抗制备物。聚丙烯酸胺凝胶电泳表明纯化的单抗由分子量分别为５５ｋＤ和２５ｋＤ的两条蛋白带组成。用纯化单抗铺底,用兔抗血清作后续抗体建立了一种测定草鱼ＧＨ的非竞争式双抗夹心ＥＬＩＳＡ方法。交叉试验表明该测定系统只与草鱼ＧＨ和基因重组鲤生长激素（ｒｃＧＨ）具有剂量依存的结合反应,而与大马哈鱼生长激素（ｓＧＨ）、牛生长激素（ｂＧＨ）、大马哈鱼促性腺激素（ｓＧｔＨ）、及黑鲢促性腺激素（ｂｓｃＧｔＨ）等均无交叉反应。该 ＥＬＩＳＡ方法的灵敏度可达０．８ｎｇ／ｍｌ,组内变异系数为 ５．９ ％,组间变异系数为７．６％,回收率达９０％以上。初步应用表明,鲤和团头鲂垂体抽提液、草鱼血清、鲤血清及鲫血清在该测定系统中有剂量依存的反应曲线,而大口鲶、黄颡鱼、中华鲟及黄鳝鱼垂体抽提液及大口鲶、胡子鲶和罗非鱼血清在该测定系统中没有交叉反应。     

GnRH相关肽在大鼠垂体前叶的细胞学定位

本研究应用特异性抗GnRH相关肽(GAP)N端11个氨基酸的抗血清和六种垂体前叶激素的抗血清,通过免疫组织化学双重染色技术观察GAP在大鼠垂体前叶细胞的定位。结果发现,GAP样免疫反应性物质存在于LH细胞和FSH细胞,而未见于GH、PRL、TSH和ACTH细胞。本文首次证明GAP存在于正常大鼠垂体促性腺激素细胞,为GAP调节LH和FSH的分泌提供了形态学证据;也支持GAP的功能序列在其分子的N端,或GAP进一步裂解出N端片段而发挥作用。     

脑垂体间叶催乳素释放抑制因子就是内皮素或内皮素样肽

哺乳动物的脑垂体间叶中存在有催乳素释放抑制因子(prolactin release inhibiting factor,PIF),它能抑制垂体前叶细胞释放催乳素。Samson等(1990,1991)曾发现内皮素(endothelin,ET)及其前体能够抑制培养的雌性大鼠垂体前叶细胞释放催乳素。最近Samson等(1992)进一步证明了存在于垂体间叶的PIF就是ET或ET样肽。     

大鼠精核蛋白抗血清的制备

用大鼠精核蛋白－核糖核酸复合物免疫大鼠得到了特异的抗ＲＰ抗血清,并用Ｉｍｍｕｎｏｄｏｔｔｉｎｇ和Ｉｍｍｎｕｏｂｌｏｔｔｉｎｇ方法验证了其特异性。该抗血清和ＲＰ有特异的反应,并和哺乳动物小鼠和羊的精核蛋白有一定程度交叉反应,而与体细胞类型核蛋白无交叉反应。并对制备该抗血清的意义予以讨论。     

四种鲤科鱼肠道中高血糖素免疫活性内分泌细胞的研究

应用过氧化物酶抗过氧化物酶(PAP)免疫组织化学技术,用4种哺乳动物中培育出的抗血清对草鱼、青鱼、鲤和翘嘴红鲌4种鲤科鱼的肠内分泌细胞进行免疫、组织化学的鉴别和定位.证实了高血糖素免疫活性内分泌细胞在草鱼整个肠道中均呈阳性反应;在鲤、青鱼前肠中仅有少量阳性反应;在翘嘴红鲌肠道中未见阳性反应。胃蛋白酶原(Pepsinogen)、凝乳酶(Prochymosin)和神经特异烯醇酶(Neuron specific enolase)3种抗血清在4种鱼的肠道中均未发现阳性反应.本文重点描述草鱼高血糖素免疫活性内分泌细胞在肠道各段的分布,密度及其形态学特征,还就其可能的生理功能与草食性哺乳动物胃肠道中该类内分泌细胞进行比较和讨论。     

草鱼人工繁殖中一年多次产卵的生物学基础

草鱼在人工培育条件下,一年可以进行多次催情产卵。草鱼一年多次产卵的生物学基础主要是: (1)成熟草鱼卵母细胞发育的不完全同步性。由于卵母细胞由第Ⅲ时相过渡到第Ⅳ时相不是完全同步,所以,在第一次催产产空后的卵巢中保留有相当数量第Ⅲ时相卵母细胞,它们经过人工培育一段时间后,能够发育成熟而在第二次催产时产出。(2)第一次催产后保留在卵巢中的第Ⅲ时相卵母细胞向第Ⅳ时相发育的过程中,呈现明显的AKP酶活性反应而没有ACP酶活性反应,表明这些卵母细胞正在进行着旺盛的物质代谢活动,生长发育正常。(3)第一次催产后垂体间叶嗜硷性细胞还有一部份保留着分泌颗粒,表明促性腺激素的分泌活动尚在持续进行,这是第Ⅲ时相卵母细胞能够发育成熟的重要生理因素。       

草鱼人工繁殖中一年多次产卵的生物学基础

草鱼在人工培育条件下,一年可以进行多次催情产卵。草鱼一年多次产卵的生物学基础主要是：(1)成熟草鱼卵母细胞发育的不完全同步性。由于卵母细胞由第Ⅲ时相过渡到第Ⅳ时相不是完全同步,所以,在第一次催产产空后的卵巢中保留有相当数量第Ⅲ时相卵母细胞,它们经过人工培育一段时间后,能够发育成熟而在第二次催产时产出。(2)第一次催产后保留在卵巢中的第Ⅲ时相卵母细胞向第Ⅳ时相发育的过程中,呈现明显的AKP酶活性反应而没有ACP酶活性反应,表明这些卵母细胞正在进行着旺盛的物质代谢活动,生长发育正常。(3)第一次催产后垂体间叶嗜硷性细胞还有一部份保留着分泌颗粒,表明促性腺激素的分泌活动尚在持续进行,这是第Ⅳ时相卵母细胞能够发育成熟的重要生理因素。     

小鼠胎盘催乳素样蛋白质为异源性糖基化蛋白质

小鼠胎盘催乳素样蛋白质(分子量34000),依其生物学功能又称为促细胞分裂调节蛋白(MRP),与垂体催乳素、胎盘催乳素和生长激素是一类异源性糖基化蛋白质,有氨基酸序列的结构相关性。垂体前叶细胞分泌的催乳素和小鼠胎盘或体外培养中3T3细胞的 MRP 及其 mRNA 水平,可因细胞对肽生长因子的选择性反应面增高。细胞溶酶体融合新合成的蛋白质,由溶酶体酶降解 MRP,而调节3T3细胞     

2种β2-受体激动剂抗血清的比较研究

目的:通过比较分析,为β2-受体激动剂的快速免疫学检测方法及最佳免疫抗血清的选择提供依据。方法:分别以偶氮化法和碳二亚胺法将β2-受体激动剂克伦特罗(CL)和沙丁胺醇(Sal)连接到牛血清白蛋白和卵清蛋白上,免疫家兔;4次免疫后,采血制备抗CL和抗Sal的抗血清;用间接ELISA检测抗血清效价,用间接抑制ELISA检测抗血清交叉反应。结果:为抗CL抗血清的效价为1∶2560,抗Sal抗血清的效价为1∶5120。抗CL抗血清对Sal有0.088%的交叉反应,而抗Sal抗血清对CL有200%的交叉反应;就对CL的抑制而言,抗Sal血清比抗CL血清更敏感。结论:在检测β2-受体激动剂CL时,Sal完全抗原可能是制备抗血清的最佳抗原。     

草鱼垂体催乳素的分离、纯化与鉴定的研究

 草鱼垂体催乳素的分离、纯化与鉴定的研究陈松林,邓文涛,陈细华,夏盛芹（中国水产科学研究院长江水产研究所淡水鱼类种质资源与生物技术国家重点实验室,沙市４３４０００）催乳素（ＰＲＬ）是由动物脑垂体合成与分泌的一种多肽激素,其在鱼类的主要功能是调节鱼体渗透...     

Immunocytochemical devidence for hypophysial projections of the cells of the nucleus lateralis tuberis pars lateralis in the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)

In the rainbow trout the pars lateralis is the most prominent part of the nucleus lateralis tuberis (NLT). To demonstrate a morphological relationship between this lateral part of the NLT and the pituitary, immunocytochemistry was applied as a staining method. Experiments were carried out on glutaraldehyde-picric acid-acetic acid-fixed brain sections of mature male and female rainbow trout using the peroxidase-anti-peroxidase immune technique with an antiserum against 27-S-methylglucagon as the first antibody. Most of the cells in the NLT/pars lateralis reacted with the antiserum. Axons from these cells enter the pituitary, extending exclusively in the numerous neurohypophysial digitations in the pars intermedia. No immunoreactive neurohypophysial protrusions were found in those parts of the adenohypophysis where the gonadotropic cells are located, indicating that the lateral part of the NLT is not directly involved in the control of gonadotropin secretion. In addition to cells of the NLT/pars lateralis only prolactin cells in the rostral pars distalis of the adenohypophysis reacted with the antiserum used.     

Solid-phase adsorption method for removing undesired antibodies from polyclonal antiserum

We have developed a novel and simple method, requiring only a small amount of antigen, for removal of undesired antibodies from antiserum. The method was established using a well-characterized antiserum against rat luteinizing hormone (anti-rLH). Wells of polystyrene tissue culture plates were coated with rat LH (rLH). Anti-rLH diluted 1:3000 was added to rLH-coated wells and shaken to remove LH antibodies. Control anti-rLH was treated in a similar manner in non-rLH-coated wells. Both antisera were tested by immunocytochemistry on rat pituitaries. Antiserum from rLH-coated wells stained no cells, whereas the control serum stained cells that were morphologically typical of LH cells. The effectiveness of this antibody removal was also confirmed in a modified ELISA. In another experiment, anti-rLH and anti-hTSH beta sera were mixed. The final dilution of both antisera was 1:10,000. Anti-rLH was removed by the purification method described. Completeness of antibody removal was confirmed by a double-immunohistochemical staining of rat pituitary in which sections were first stained by the PAP method and then stained with an immunofluorescence procedure after elution of the first antigen-antibody complex. The mixed antiserum incubated in rLH-coated wells did not stain LH cells. There was no co-localization between the LH immunopositivity demonstrated by an anti-rLH serum using immunofluorescence and cells immunostained with the purified antiserum using the PAP method. As indicated in ELISA, the titer of the TSH beta antiserum was not decreased compared to that of the untreated, mixed control antiserum, and the LH antibodies were eliminated by the treatment. This new purification method has four distinct advantages: (a) antiserum is not treated chemically; (b) it requires only a small amount of antigen compared with the amount required for affinity chromatography; (c) neither the undesired antigen-antibody complex(es) nor an excess amount of antigen is present in the purified antiserum; and (d) removal of undesired antibodies can be monitored by ELISA.     

Evidence for a common leukemia-associated antigen in acute myelogenous leukemia

Summary An antiserum was raised in rabbits to extracts of a pool of acute myelogenous leukemia cells. The immunization protocol used (antibody feedback) gave rise to antisera with marked specificity for AML extracts. After absorption, the antiserum demonstrated essentially no reactivity with cell extracts from 12 individual normal peripheral blood samples, while it reacted positively with 16 individual extracts from AML cells. Reactivity was assayed by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The antiserum was not reactive with extracts from normal PHA-induced blast cells, with extracts of bone marrow cells from six individuals, or with three individual extracts of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) blast cells. These data indicate that this antiserum is detecting an antigen that is common to AML cells but may not be common to other blast cells.     

A histone 1-like antigen is a component of the nuclear envelope

Rabbit antibodies have been raised against rat liver nuclear envelopes. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) demonstrated high titer antiserum specific for the nuclear envelope preparation. Immunocytochemical studies showed that the antiserum stained the nuclear envelopes, but not intra-nuclear components of HEp-2 (human malignant epithelial) cells. When electrophoretically separated peptides were tested by immunoblotting techniques, the rabbit antiserum specifically stained proteins with molecular masses of 26 and 28 kD. These peptides had similar mobilities to purified histone 1 (H1). Indeed purified calf thymus H1 recognized the antiserum. The antigens are not loosely bound to the nuclear envelope, as they could not be extracted with low salt. Therefore, we have established that the 26 and 28 kD nuclear envelope peptides are not contaminants of the nuclear envelope preparation and that they express determinants that are immunologically cross-reactive with purified H1, but not with intra-nuclear H1.     

Immunological Reactivity of Antisera Prepared Against the Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Treated Structural Polypeptides of Adenovirus-Associated Virus

The preparation of antisera to the three purified sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-treated polypeptide components (VP1, VP2, VP3) of adenovirus-associated virus (AAV) type 3H is described. In immunofluorescence tests (FA), these antisera stained heat-stable antigens with distinct morphologies in cells co-infected with either adenovirus or herpes simplex virus. Kinetic studies of antigen formation showed that VP1 antiserum first stained the cytoplasm (14 hr) and later (by 18 hr) stained both cytoplasmic and intranuclear areas. VP2 antiserum stained only discrete intranuclear areas, and VP3 antiserum stained nearly the entire nucleus. All three VP antigens appeared at about the 14th hr postinfection, about 2 hr prior to the appearance of whole virion antigen. The VP antisera cross-reacted in FA with AAV types 1 and 2 (all at one-eighth of the homologous titer), but did not react with other parvoviruses, i.e., rat virus, hemadsorbing enteric virus of calves, minute virus of mice, or H-1 virus. These non-neutralizing antisera reacted specifically with SDS-treated AAV virion antigens in complement fixation and immunodiffusion tests, and antiserum prepared against SDS-treated helper adenovirus structural polypeptides reacted with adenovirus polypeptide antigens. All antisera to SDS-treated polypeptides were specific for new antigens revealed on the dissociated peptides and did not react with whole virions, whereas whole-virion antisera did not cross-react with the polypeptide antigens. These findings suggest that antigens unique to the polypeptides of AAV are revealed by SDS treatment and that these antigens can be detected in cells prior to the folding of the polypeptides into the molecular configuration they possess as virion subunits. These results also indicate that at least one AAV polypeptide component is synthesized in the cell cytoplasm.     

Immunohistochemical analysis of the segregation process of the quail germ cell lineage

An antiserum against quail 7 day gonadal germ cells was found to react specifically with gonadal germ cells of both sexes. Transverse sections from a range of early quail developmental stages were submitted to the antibody PAP reaction. Blastodiscs from the earliest uterine stages (II to X E.G. & K) reacted very strongly, while the overall reaction gradually decreased in older blastoderms. At stage XIII both epiblast and hypoblast were weakly stained, but some large, PGC-like cells stained intensively. During gastrulation (PS formation) the reaction of the epiblast disappears quicker than that of the hypoblast. The newly formed mesoderm and entoderm do not react at all and the reaction gradually becomes limited mainly to the PGCs and somewhat to the primary hypoblast which is moving into the germinal crescent. The widely spread reaction at the early stages is thus gradually being restricted to the PGCs.     

Transient expression of megakaryocyte-derived protein immunoreactive with an antiserum to cartilage oligomeric matrix protein in developing rat liver

We analyzed a megakaryocyte-derived protein immunoreactive with an antiserum to cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) in the developing rat liver. Staining with the anti-COMP antiserum in the developing rat liver increased during embryogenesis, and was strongest in the livers of 17-day-old embryos. However, staining in the liver was not detected at eight days after birth or thereafter. The stained cells were found to be megakaryocytes. We partially purified the protein showing cross-reaction with the antiserum to COMP from a megakaryocyte-rich cells fraction in 17-day-old embrionic rat livers. The molecular weight of this protein (approximately 95 kDa) was close to the molecular weight of COMP (105 kDa). Amplification of an RT-PCR fragment (225 bp) corresponding to part of COMP mRNA was detected in cartilage, but not in megakaryocytes of fetal liver or bone marrow. Based on these results, the fetal rat liver megakaryocyte-derived protein that reacted with the antiserum against COMP was thought to contain a common epitope with COMP from cartilage, but to be a different protein from COMP.     

Characterization of rat gastric mucins using a monoclonal antibody,RGM23, recognizing surface mucous cell-type mucins

A novel anti-mucin monoclonal antibody (mAb), designated RGM23, was developed against mucin purified from rat gastric mucosa. RGM23 reacted with the mucin attached to the ELISA well. The reactivity was lost by trypsin treatment, but not by periodate oxidation, indicating that RGM23 recognizes the peptide moiety of the mucin molecule. Histochemical study showed that RGM23 stained the corpus and antral surface mucosa of rat stomach, but not their glandular mucosa, nor duodenal, small intestinal or large intestinal mucosa. The area stained with RGM23 was coincident with that stained with 45M1, a mAb reacting with MUC5AC mucin. Examination of the mucin subunits extracted from rat stomach by Sepharose CL-4B and Q-Sepharose chromatography and CsTFA equilibrium centrifugation showed that RGM23 reacted with the surface mucous cell-type mucins that were stained with periodate-Schiff (PAS) and reacted with mAb RGM21. The gastric gland-type mucin, which reacted with mAb HIK1083, did not react with RGM23. On Q-Sepharose chromatography, a part of the RGM21-reactive mucins was only faintly stained with PAS and did not react with RGM23. The results together indicated that RGM23 probably reacted with the rat MUC5AC (rMuc5AC) mucin present in the surface mucosa of the stomach, and that the surface mucosal cells in rat stomach may contain mucin bearing non-rMuc5AC core protein in addition to rMuc5AC mucins.     

Immunochemical and histochemical studies on a phosphonoglycosphingolipid, SGL-II, isolated from the sea gastropod Aplysia kurodai

Antiserum was raised against 3-O-MeGal beta 1----3GalNAc alpha 1----3[6' -O-(2-aminoethylphosphonyl)Gal alpha 1----2 (2-aminoethylphosphonyl----6)Gal beta 1----4Glc beta 1----1Ceramide (SGL-II) isolated from the skin of a mollusc, Aplysia kurodai. This antiserum reacted with SGL-II and other phosphonoglycosphingolipids of Aplysia such as SGL-I', F-21, and some minor glycolipids on TLC plates, but it did not react with ganglioside or globoside. The sugars recognized were 3-O-methylgalactose at the non-reducing end and galactose at the branched chain of the glycolipids. One membrane glycoprotein (Mr 280,000) reacted strongly, and some other proteins reacted weakly with the antiserum. Immunohistochemical examination of the nervous tissues revealed distinct staining in the periganglionic tissue of the ganglia, and the perineural sheath of the proximal portion of the peripheral nerves. The neuropil and satellite cells were also stained. In the skin, subcutaneous connective tissues were moderately stained, and the cytoplasm of small mononuclear cells and foamy cells was also stained. The staining patterns were essentially the same in paraffin and cryostat sections. From the findings with sections pretreated with chloroform-methanol (2 : 1, v/v), it was suggested that the periganglionic and perineural stainings were due to glycoproteins, including an SDS-soluble glycoprotein of Mr 280,000, while those of the other regions were due to SGL-II and glycolipids immunologically related to SGL-II. The stainings in the skin sections were largely due to glycoproteins.