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Caveolin isoforms in resident and elicited rat peritoneal macrophages.

Authors: Kiss, AL  Turi, A  Mullner, N  Timar, J 
Citation: Kiss AL, etal., Eur J Cell Biol. 2000 May;79(5):343-9.
RGD ID: 2300101
Pubmed: PMID:10887965   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1078/S0171-9335(04)70038-2   (Journal Full-text)

Caveolin--an integral membrane protein--is the principal component of caveolae membranes in vivo. Multiple forms of caveolin have been identified: caveolin-1alpha, caveolin-1beta, caveolin-2 and caveolin-3. They differ in their specific properties and tissue distribution. When we studied the lysate of resident and elicited macrophages isolated from rat peritoneal cavity by Western blot analysis, we identified two different proteins (approximately 29 kDa and approximately 20 kDa) which were labelled with anti-caveolin antibodies. The approximately 20-kDa protein was labelled specifically only by anti-VIP21/caveolin-1, while the approximately 29-kDa protein was labelled by anti-VIP21/caveolin-1 and anti-caveolin-2. The presence of the approximately 29-kDa protein was characteristic of resident macrophages, and only a small amount of the approximately 20-kDa protein was detected in these cells. Elicitation resulted in a significant increase in the amount of the approximately 20-kDa protein labelled by anti-VIP21/caveolin-1 only. According to its molecular mass and antibody-specificity, this protein might be identical with the caveolin-1beta isoform. Our morphological (confocal and electron microscopical) studies have shown that in resident cells caveolin was present in the cytoplasm, in smaller vesicles and multivesicular bodies around the Golgi area. Only a very small amount of caveolae was found on the surface of these cells. In elicited macrophages, caveolae (labelled with the anti-VIP21/caveolin-1 antibody) appeared in large numbers on the cell surface, but caveolin detected by anti-caveolin-2 was also found in small vesicles and multivesicular bodies in the cytoplasm. According to these results, the absence of caveolae in resident cells can be explained by the absence of caveolin-1. The expression of the approximately 29-kDa (caveolin-related) protein in resident macrophages seems to be insufficient for caveolae formation. Elicitation significantly increased the expression of caveolin-1, and the increased amount of caveolin-1 resulted in caveolae formation on the cell surface.




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Cav1Ratcell surface  IDA  RGD 


Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Cav1  (caveolin 1)

Gene Cav2 caveolin 2 Rattus norvegicus