title: Nitric oxide synthase imunolabeling in the molluscan CNS and peripheral tissues.
abstract: NOS immunoreactivity was assayed in CNS and peripheral tissues of the sea slugs Pleurobranchaea californica, Tritonia diomedea and Aplysia californica using different antisera against mammalian nitric oxide synthase in Western blots. Polyclonal anti-nNOS labeled at 250, 185, 170, 155, 100, 75, and 65 kD in extracts of Pleurobranchaea CNS, salivary gland and esophagus but not of gills or muscle. The labeling pattern for Tritonia in bands at 250, 200, 120/110, 100, 69, 65, and 60 kD differed somewhat. Anti-nNOS labeling in Aplysia was markedly different, with bands labeled only at 69 and 60 kD in CNS extracts, and at 200, 190, 69 and 60 kD in salivary and esophagus extracts. The wide variation in NOS immunoreactivity is consistent with species differences in tissue localization and biochemical properties of molluscan NOS isoforms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Hurst
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Moroz
authors.forename: M U
authors.initials: MU
authors.lastname: Gillette
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gillette
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001048:Aplysia / Q000201:enzymology; D015153:Blotting, Western; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D008974:Mollusca / Q000201:enzymology*; D009420:Nervous System / Q000201:enzymology*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D052248:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III; D051381:Rats; D013045:Species Specificity; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; C496320:NOS1 protein, human; C496319:NOS2 protein, human; C496314:NOS3 protein, human; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052248:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III; C496322:Nos1 protein, rat; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat; C496316:Nos3 protein, rat