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Tissue and Cellular Expression Patterns of Porcine CFTR:
Similarities to and Differences from Human CFTR (2010)

Art

Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Autoren

Plog, Stephanie

Mundhenk, Lars

Bothe, Melanie K

Klymiuk, Nikolai

Gruber, Achim D

Quelle

The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society

Bandzählung: 58

Heftzählung: 9

Seiten: 785 – 797

ISSN: 0022-1554

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2010.955377

Pubmed: 20498480

Kontakt

Institut für Tierpathologie

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14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62450
pathologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

Emerging porcine models of cystic fibrosis (CF) are expected to mimic the human disease more closely than current mouse models do. However, little is known of the tissue and cellular expression patterns of the porcine CF transmembrane conductance regulator (pCFTR) and possible differences from human CFTR (hCFTR). Here, the expression pattern of pCFTR was systematically established on the mRNA and protein levels. Using specific anti-pCFTR antibodies, the majority of the protein was immunohistochemically detected on paraffin-embedded sections and on cryostate sections in the apical cytosol of intestinal crypt epithelial cells, nasal, tracheal, and bronchial epithelial cells, and other select, mostly glandular epithelial cells. Confocal laser scanning microscopy with co-localization of the Golgi marker 58K localized the protein in the cytosol between the Golgi apparatus and the apical cell membrane with occasional punctate or diffuse staining of the apical membrane. The tissue and cellular distribution patterns were confirmed by RT-PCR from whole tissue lysates or select cells after laser capture microdissection. Thus, expression of pCFTR was found to largely resemble that of hCFTR except for the kidney, brain, and cutaneous glands, which lack expression in pigs. Species-specific differences between pCFTR and hCFTR may become relevant for future interpretations of the CF phenotype in pig models.