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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M005830200 on August 23, 2000

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 46, 36189-36196, November 17, 2000
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Occurrence of Heparin in the Invertebrate Styela plicata (Tunicata) Is Restricted to Cell Layers Facing the Outside Environment
AN ANCIENT ROLE IN DEFENSE?*

Moisés C. M. CavalcanteDagger , Silvana Allodi§, Ana-Paula Valente, Anita H. Straus||, Hélio K. Takahashi||, Paulo A. S. MourãoDagger , and Mauro S. G. PavãoDagger **

From the Dagger  Laboratório de Tecido Conjuntivo, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho and Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68041, Rio de Janeiro 21941-590, § Departamento de Histologia e Embriologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas and  Centro Nacional de Ressonância Magnética Nuclear de Macromoléculas and Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-590, and || Departamento de Bioquímica, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo 04023-900, Brazil

Heparin is an intracellular product of vertebrate mast cell currently used as exogenous anticoagulant. Despite of the potent biological activities of exogenous heparin, its physiological function has not been clearly established yet. Here, a heparin with similar structure and anticoagulant properties to the mammalian counterpart was shown to occur as the intracellular product of test cells, a cell monolayer that surrounds egg of the invertebrate Styela plicata (Chordata-Tunicata). As in the case of mammalian mast cells, heparin from the ascidian test cells is removed from the intracellular granules after incubation with compound 48/80. Following fertilization, the test cells surrounding the developing larva still retain heparin as metachromatic granulation. In the adult invertebrate, heparin occurs as intracellular granules at the apical tip of epithelial cells surrounding the lumen of both intestine and pharynx, in close contact with the external environment. This is the first description of the presence of heparin in cytoplasmic granules of epithelial-like cells around the lumen of sites exposed to external agents. This arrangement may reflect the participation of heparin in defense mechanisms in this invertebrate.

* This work was supported by grants from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (FNDCT), Programa de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (PADCT), Programa de Apoio a Grupos de Excelência (PRONEX), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Fundação Universitário José Bonifácio, and the PEW-Latin American Fellow Program.The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

** To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. de Bioquímica Médica, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68041, Rio de Janeiro 21941-590, Brazil. Tel.: 55-21-562-2918; Fax: 55-21-562-2921; E-mail: mpavao@hucff.ufrj.br.

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