The tight junction is an essential element of the intercellular junctional complex; yet its protein composition is not fully understood. At present, only three proteins, ZO-1 (Stevenson, B. R., J. D. Siliciano, M. S. Mooseker, and D. A. Goodenough. 1986. J. Cell Biol. 103:755-766), cingulin (Citi, S., H. Sabanay, R. Jakes, B. Geiger, and J. Kendrick-Jones. 1988. Nature (Lond.). 333:272-275) and ZO-2 (Gumbiner, B., T. Lowenkopf, and D. Apatira. 1991. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 88:3460-3464) are known to be associated with the tight junction. We have generated a monoclonal antibody (7H6) against a bile canaliculus-rich membrane fraction prepared from rat liver. This 7H6 antigen was preferentially localized by immunofluorescence at the junctional complex regions of hepatocytes and other epithelia, and 7H6-affiliated gold particles were shown electron microscopically to localize at the periphery of tight junctions. Immunoblot analysis of a bile canaliculus-rich fraction of rat liver using 7H6, anti-ZO-1 antibody (R26.4C), and anti-cingulin antibody revealed that 7H6 reacted selectively with a 155-kD protein, whereas R26.4C reacted only with a 225-kD protein. Anti-cingulin antibody reacted solely with 140 and 108-kD proteins, indicating that the protein recognized by 7H6 is immunologically different from ZO-1 and cingulin. Immunoprecipitation of detergent extracts obtained from metabolically labeled MDCK cells with R26.4C coprecipitated a 160-kD protein, which corresponds to ZO-2, with ZO-1. However, 7H6 did not react with the 160-kD protein. These results strongly suggest that the 7H6 antibody recognizes a novel tight junction-associated protein different from ZO-1, cingulin and ZO-2.
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15 January 1993
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January 15 1993
Monoclonal antibody 7H6 reacts with a novel tight junction-associated protein distinct from ZO-1, cingulin and ZO-2.
Y Zhong,
Y Zhong
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
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T Saitoh,
T Saitoh
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
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T Minase,
T Minase
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
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N Sawada,
N Sawada
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
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K Enomoto,
K Enomoto
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
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M Mori
M Mori
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
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Y Zhong
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
T Saitoh
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
T Minase
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
N Sawada
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
K Enomoto
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
M Mori
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
Online ISSN: 1540-8140
Print ISSN: 0021-9525
J Cell Biol (1993) 120 (2): 477–483.
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Y Zhong, T Saitoh, T Minase, N Sawada, K Enomoto, M Mori; Monoclonal antibody 7H6 reacts with a novel tight junction-associated protein distinct from ZO-1, cingulin and ZO-2.. J Cell Biol 15 January 1993; 120 (2): 477–483. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.120.2.477
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