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  • Title: Widespread occurrence of avian spectrin in nonerythroid cells.
    Author: Repasky EA, Granger BL, Lazarides E.
    Journal: Cell; 1982 Jul; 29(3):821-33. PubMed ID: 6758951.
    Abstract:
    We have prepared an antibody against chicken erythrocyte alpha spectrin, using as immunogen protein purified by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. One- and two-dimensional immunoautoradiography show that this antiserum reacts only with alpha spectrin in chicken erythrocytes and crossreacts with alpha spectrin in erythrocytes from various mammals. Immunofluorescence reveals that this antiserum reacts with a plasma membrane component in erythrocytes as well as in most nonerythroid avian and mammalian cells. Intense staining is seen at or near the plasma membrane in neurons, lens cells, endothelial and epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts, skeletal and cardiac muscle, as well as skeletal myotubes grown in tissue culture. Immunoautoradiography indicates that the crossreactive antigen in these nonerythroid tissues has the same molecular weight and isoelectric point as the chicken erythrocyte antigen. Smooth muscle, tracheal cilia, myelin and mature sperm stain weakly or not at all. These results suggest that spectrin is more extensively distributed than previously recognized, and that the functions of spectrin elucidated for erythrocytes may apply to other cell types as well.
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