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A serological assay for the detection of cell surface receptors of nerve growth factor

✍ Scribed by Zimmermann, Astrid ;Sutter, Arne ;Samuelson, John ;Shooter, Eric M.

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
610 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0091-7419

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

When single‐cell suspensions prepared from embroyonic day 8 (E8) chick sensory ganglia are incubated with nerve growth factor (NGF), anti‐NGF antiserum, and complement, an NGF‐dependent cytotoxic kill of 20 (±3)% of the ganglia cells is observed. This percentage is increased by a factor of two when only the neuronal cells are tested. No kill is observed on the nonneuronal cell population representing 50% of the ganglia dissociate. When E8 sensory ganglia cells are cultured in the presence of NGF following cytotoxic kill, the large, phase‐bright NGF‐reponsive neurons are missing from the culture. These results indicate that the cells recognized in the cytotoxicity assay have to carry NGF‐binding sites of type I, which is the one with the higher affinity of the two types of NGF‐binding sites (I and II) present on sensory ganglia cells. This conclusion is further supported by the following data: (a) half maximal cytotoxicity is reached already at a concentration of NGF which is below the K~D~ of binding site I; (b) a washing step which removes all NGF bound to type II receptors while leaving a high percentage of type I receptors occupied has no effect on the percentage of ganglia cells killed.

Using the cytotoxicity assay the presence of high‐affinity binding sites of type I can be demonstrated on sensory ganglia cells from E8 chick embryos but not from E4 embryos and not on liver and heart cells from E8 embryos. Further, type I receptor‐bearing cells were detectable in the brain using this assay. At E8, NGF receptors could be detected on cells of the forebrain and the tectum but not on brain stem cells. Cytotoxic kill of forebrain cells was found to be especially high at E8 and E9, and decreased by E10.

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