Immuno-gold electron microscopical detection of heat shock protein 60 (hsp60) in mitochondria of rat hepatocytes and myocardiocytes
Abstract
We characterize the specificity of a polyclonal antibody against heat shock protein 60 (hsp60) and present an application for ultrastructural localization studies of this protein. The antibody was obtained from an IgG fraction (AB 121) originally raised against the calcium binding protein calsequestrin by immunoabsorption on isolated rat liver hsp60. As shown by partial N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of immunoprecipitated proteins AB 121 contained reactivities against hsp60, calsequestrin and the glycoprotein fetuin. In rat heart AB 121 recognized calsequestrin and hsp60. In human and rat liver the only reacting protein was hsp60. In rat erythrocytes the antibody bound to 61 kDa and 58 kDa isoforms of fetuin. According to published data no amino acid sequence homologies nor common motifs are found between calsequestrin, hsp60 and fetuin. As the first application the anti-hsp60 antibody was used for immuno-gold electron microscopical localization of hsp60: in myocardiocytes and hepatocytes of the rat strong labelling was obtained exclusively in mitochondria. No extramitochondrial structures were labelled. The specificity of the antibody and its ability to be visualized by immuno-gold electron microscopy offers the possi...Continue Reading
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