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Concanavalin A-reactive nuclear matrix glycoprotein
Benedicto de Campos VidalI; Silvya Stuchi MariaI; Louis Bernard KlaczkoII
IDepartamento de Biologia Celular,
IIDepartamento de Genética e Ενoluçãο, IB, UNICAMP, Caixa Postal 6109, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brasil. Fax: 55-019-239-3124. Send correspondence to B.C.V.
ABSTRACT
The binding capacity of concanavalin A (Con A) to condensed euchromatin and heterochromatin was investigated in chicken erythrocyte nuclei (CEN), mouse liver cells, Zea mays mays meristematic cells and Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes after 4 N HCl hydrolysis to determine whether binding was preferentially occurring in bands and heterochromatin. Dry mass (DM) variation was investigated in CEN by interference microscopy. Feulgen and Con A reactions were employed for all materials to correlate the loci of the two reactions. Quantifications and topological verifications were carried out by video image analysis (high performance cytometry). It was observed that 4 N HCl hydrolysis caused an important DM loss in CEN leaving a level corresponding to the average DNA DM content. In this material, Con A binding was restricted to the nuclear envelope, which reinforces the idea of the absence of a nuclear matrix in these cells. The other cell types exhibited a correspondence of Feulgen-positive and Con A-reactive areas. The Con A reaction was highly positive in the condensed chromatin areas and heterochromatin. This fact led us to speculate that Con A-positive proteins may play a role in the chromatin condensation mechanism, endowing this structure with physico-chemical stability towards acid hydrolysis and contributing to its rheological properties.
Keywords: Concanavalin A; glycoprotein.
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