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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 7 2705-2713, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists
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J Maury, A Bernadac, A Rigal and S Maroux
Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie de la Nutrition, CNRS-URA 1820, Faculte des Sciences de Saint Jeroome, Marseille, France.
The filamentous brush border glycocalyx forming the 'enteric surface coat' of the intestinal epithelium is composed in rabbits of a 400 kDa mucin-type glycoprotein, which was purified using the 3A4 monoclonal antibody. This monoclonal antibody recognizes a filamentous brush border glycocalyx-specific glycosidic structure containing an O-acetylated sialic acid, which is absent from all the other glycoproteins in the epithelium, with the exception of certain goblet cell mucins. Here we establish that only 50% of the rabbits tested synthesized this glycosidic structure. Upon immunolabeling surface epithelia and sections of jejunum from these rabbits, the carbohydrate epitope recognized by the 3A4 mAb was found to be present on the filamentous brush border glycocalyx of a variable number of enterocytes, which were patchily distributed over all the villi. This heterogeneous expression of 3A4 antigenicity, which was also observed in the crypts, suggests the existence of differences between the patterns of differentiation of enterocytes, which results in the expression of different pools of glycosyltransferases and/or acetyl transferases. In mature enterocytes, the 3A4 determinants were present only on the filamentous brush border glycocalyx, which is anchored solely to the membrane microdomain at the tip of brush border microvilli. However, expression of 3A4 antigenicity begins in the median third of crypts, in enterocytes with a short, thin brush border devoid of apical filamentous brush border glycocalyx. Here the 3A4 epitopes were present over the whole brush border membrane.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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