Localization of α1,2,3-subunit isoforms of Na,K-ATPase in cultured neonatal and adult rat myocardium: The immunofluorescence and immunocytochemical study

✍ Scribed by Jan Slezak; Wolfgang Schulze; Zuzana Stefankova; Ludmila Okruhlicova; Ludovit Danihel; Gerd Wallukat

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 616 KB
• Volume: 163-164
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0300-8177
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00408639

✦ Synopsis

By indirect immunofluorescence and preembedding peroxidase-diaminobenzidine technique the localization ofpolyclonal and monoclonal antibodies against a 1, a2 and ct3 isoforms of the Na,K-ATPase were studied in rat myocardium.

The al-subunit was identified predominantly on sarcolemma of cultured myocytes, neonatal, as well as adult cardiocytes. The ct2 signal was localized around nuclei of cultured cardiocytes, very weak signals were seen in neonatal and more intense signal, were dispersed throughout the adult myocytes. The a3-subunit immunoreactivity was weak and localized in cell processes connecting individual cultured cells, on sarcolemma and intercalated discs of neonatal cells and very weak in adult working myocytes. Cytochemically demonstrated ouabain resistant Na,K-ATPase localized in junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum may represent al isoenzyme which is directly involved in modulation of action potential fluxes. (Mol Cell Biochem 163/164:39-45, 1996)