Abstract
Primary cultures of rabbit tracheal epithelial (RbTE) cells have been performed in two different ways. Quantitative analysis of both proliferative capacities and ciliated differentiation process were carried out using epithelial cell cultures from tracheal explants and from dissociated tracheal epithelial cells in air-liquid interface conditions. We show that both alpha- and beta-tubulins from RbTE cells are polyglutamylated and that this posttranslational modification is restricted to cilia axonemes and centrioles of non-ciliated cells. A monoclonal antibody raised against polyglutamylated tubulins was used to quantify the proportion of ciliated cells. Even though epithelial cells from outgrowths obtained by the explant technique highly proliferated during the first days of culture, no ciliated differentiation occurred. On the other hand, using air-liquid interface conditions after proliferation of dissociated cells, we could observe and quantify a ciliated cell differentiation in vitro by both Western blot and flow cytometric analysis. The specific detection and quantification of ciliated cells open the way for the biochemical and molecular characterization of centriolar components during ciliated differentiation.
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