In Vitro Synthesis and Secretion of Glycoprotein by Human Mammary Tissue

Overview

Journal In Vitro

Specialties Anatomy & Histology
Cell Biology

Date 1978 Sep 1

PMID 721104

Authors

G B Dermer

Z A Tokes

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Abstract

Organ cultures of human surgical specimens can be used to investigate glycoprotein production in vitro under conditions in which three-dimensional tissue structures and cell-cell interactions resemble those present in vivo. In this report, an organ-culture system is used to investigate the synthesis, transport and release of glycoprotein by normal and benign hyperplastic human mammary epithelium. Autoradiography of explants pulse-labeled with individual glycoprotein precursors ([3H]glucosamine, [3H]fucose, [3H]acetylmannosamine) and maintained in organ culture for intervals up to 72 hr revealed that glycoprotein is synthesized and then secreted by mammary epithelium. Incorporation of each isotope took place in the Golgi apparatus. Most of the newly synthesized glycoprotein, labeled with each of the three precursors, then was transported to apical cell surfaces and secreted into gland lumina. Observations were indistinguishable in normal and benign hyperplastic glands. Thus nonlactating human mammary epithelium exhibits a glycoprotein secretory activity. Analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of [3H]glucosamine-labeled macromolecules released into the medium showed a group of glycoproteins with a molecular weight of 48,000 +/- 6,000 daltons plus high-molecular-weight glycosylated components at the top of gels. The nature of gp48 is not known, but similar molecular-weight glycoproteins also are released by surgical specimens of human mammary cancer maintained in organ culture.

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