ULTRACYTOCHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION OF SULFHYDRYL GROUPS IN RABBIT ERYTHROCYTIC MEMBRANE
1979 年 12 巻 5 号 p. 465-479
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1979 年 12 巻 5 号 p. 465-479
Sulfhydryl groups in the rabbit erythrocytic membrane, intact and ghost, were ultracytochemically demonstrated using the Fast blue BBN (FBBBN) method, the Mercury orange (MO) method and the Mercuric chloride (MC) method.
Reaction products were localized in the form of small particles or globules with a diameter of mostly 8.0-8.9nm in the ghost membrane and 7.0-7.9nm in the intact membrane by the FBBBN method, mostly 9.0-9.9nm in the ghost membrane and 8.0-8.9nm in the intact membrane by the MO method, and mostly 8.0-8.9nm in the ghost membrane and 7.0-7.9nm in the intact membrane by the MC method. Particles were aligned in one or several rows within the membrane. Among the three methods, the most reproducible results were obtained with the FBBBN or MC method.
Specimens incubated in the MC method and subsequently freeze-fractured showed intramembranous particles (IMP) which appeared slightly transformed when compared with the IMP in non-incubated freeze-fractured specimens.
These results suggest that IMP are shown by the ultracytochemical demonstration of sulfhydryl groups in the rabbit erythrocytic membrane.
