Expression and activation of tissue transglutaminase in apoptotic cells of involuting rodent mammary tissue

Nemes, Z., Friis, R. R., Aeschlimann, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0930-7706, Saurer, S., Paulsson, M. and Fésüs, L. 1996. Expression and activation of tissue transglutaminase in apoptotic cells of involuting rodent mammary tissue. European Journal of Cell Biology 70 (2) , pp. 125-133.

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Abstract

Apoptosis is a form of cell death in which cellular integrity is maintained and neither cytoplasmic nor nuclear content is released. The Ca(2+)-dependent tissue transglutaminase (tTG) is an enzyme that forms protein cross-links between specific glutamyl and lysyl side-chains of intra- and extracellular proteins, therefore it may be responsible for the structural stabilization observed during the death process. In this study, the expression of tTG was investigated following the physiological process of forced weaning which results in an almost complete elimination of secretory epithelium by apoptosis and remodelling of the tissue structure. A dramatic induction of tTG was detected by immunoblotting of total mammary gland homogenates prepared from the involuting glands. The concentration of epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)-lysine crosslinks was also elevated in these samples, showing that the enzyme is activated during apoptosis. To determine the distribution of tTG and its relationship to apoptotic cells, paraffin-embedded specimens were studied by RNA in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical methods as well as using in situ labeling for nuclear fragmentation. All of these approaches indicated that mammary secretory epithelium expressed tissue transglutaminase coincident with the onset of apoptosis. The apoptotic and tTG-expressing cells were found to be identical as demonstrated by a histological double-labeling technique.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0171-9335
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 10:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/23888

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