title: The occurrence of three isoenzymes of protein kinase C (alpha, beta and gamma) in retinas of different species.
abstract: The localisation and immunochemical identification of 3 different forms of protein kinase C (PKC-alpha, PKC-beta and PKC-gamma) in retinas of different species were analysed by immunohistochemistry and SDS-PAGE-Western blotting, respectively. Only in some cases was there a correlation between the findings from each procedure. One reason for the lack of correlation could be the small amounts of PKC present in some retinas, which made detection possible only by first concentrating the antigen by SDS-PAGE and then carrying out Western blotting. Another possible reason is that an antibody recognises unknown antigens immunohistochemically, but, because of their specific characteristics, they are denatured when subjected to SDS-PAGE and Western blotting and therefore remain undetected. PKC-beta immunoreactivity is present in rabbit, frog and goldfish retinas but absent from the rat retina. However, SDS-PAGE and Western blotting experiments showed that the PKC-beta isoenzyme is absent from the fish retina but present in the rat retina. PKC-beta immunoreactivity in rabbit retina is present in ganglion and/or amacrine cells; in the frog retina the enzyme is associated with some bipolar cells. In the goldfish retina, PKC-beta is associated with a large population of cells in the ganglion cell layer as well as with some amacrine cell bodies. PKC-alpha is present primarily in bipolar cells of rat, fish and rabbit retinas and was not detected by immunohistochemistry or blotting experiments in the frog retina. SDS-PAGE and Western blotting of retinal extracts from different species showed that PKC-gamma occurs in the rabbit where it was associated with ganglion and/or amacrine cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Oxford University, U.K.
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Osborne
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006054:Goldfish; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000032:analysis*; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000032:analysis*; D011817:Rabbits; D011894:Rana pipiens; D051381:Rats; D012160:Retina / Q000201:enzymology*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D011493:Protein Kinase C