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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 217, Issue 10, Pages 1667-1681Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.098731
Keywords
Tricellulin; Claudin; Occludin; Mitochondrion-rich cell; Pavement cell; Paracellular permeability; Transepithelial resistance; Flask cell culture; Insert cell culture
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Accelerator Supplement
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
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In vertebrates, tight junction (TJ) proteins play an important role in epithelium formation and development, the maintenance of tissue integrity and regulation of TJ permeability. In this study, primary cultured model gill epithelia composed of pavement cells (PVCs) were used to examine TJ protein transcript abundance during the development of epithelium confluence and epithelium resistive properties. Differences in TJ protein expression patterns and transcript abundance between gill models composed of PVCs and models composed of PVCs and mitochondrion-rich cells (MRCs) were also examined. Marked alterations in TJ protein transcript abundance were observed as cells developed to confluence in flask-cultured model gill epithelia. In contrast, during the formation of tissue resistance in insert-cultured epithelia (i.e. epithelia cultured on a permeable substrate), changes in TJ protein mRNA abundance were conservative, despite paracellular marker flux decreasing by orders of magnitude. In both cases significant changes in claudin-8b, -8d, -27b, -28b and -32a transcript abundance were observed, suggesting that temporal alterations in the abundance of these genes are important end points of model gill epithelium integrity. When MRCs were present in cultured gill models, the mRNA abundance of several TJ proteins significantly altered and claudin-10c, -10d and -33b were only detected in preparations that included MRCs. These data provide insight into the role of select TJ proteins in the formation and development of gill epithelia and the maintenance of gill barrier properties. In addition, observations reveal a heterogeneous distribution of claudin TJ proteins in the gill epithelial cells of rainbow trout.
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