Abstract
The relationships between glucagon and gut-glucagon like immunoreactants (gut-GLIs) have been investigated by immunofluorescence in canine gut mucosa. The R64 antiserum, raised against the purified gut-GLI-l glicentin, and which does not react with porcine glucagon, revealed immunofluorescent cells in the gastric and intestinal mucosa. Glicentin positive cells of the stomach oxyntic glands were also stained by N- and C- terminally directed antiglucagon sera, corresponding to the gastric A-cell. In the small and large intestine, glicentin immunoreactive cells reacted solely with the cross-reacting (N-terminal) glucagon antiserum, belonging to the L-cells. Based on chemical and immunochemical data, it has been suggested that glicentin could represent an intermediate in the glucagon biosynthesis. Therefore, the results of this immunofluorescence study, showing glicentin and glucagon immunodeterminants in the A-cell, strongly support such an hypothesis. In addition the presence of glicentin like material in the A- and L-cells suggests that these two cell types synthesize their secretory product via a common precursor.
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