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To begin elucidating the biochemical basis of the polarized membrane features of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a series of immunochemical and immunoperoxidase studies were initiated with bovine brain microvessels that make up the BBB in vivo. A rabbit antiserum was prepared against isolated bovine brain BBB plasma membranes. The bovine microvessel plasma membranes were radioiodinated with chloramine-T, and the antiserum selectively immunoprecipitated a 46K protein. The antibodies directed against the 46K protein were quantitatively absorbed with bovine brain capillaries but not with rat kidney or liver powder. Only the capillaries of brain reacted with the rat kidney-absorbed antiserum in immunoperoxidase studies of ethanol-fixed, 8-micron sections of bovine brain cortex, whereas the capillaries in heart, liver, and kidney did not react. This antiserum also strongly illuminated the lateral membranes of isolated bovine brain capillary endothelial cells grown in primary tissue culture. These studies provide evidence for a polarized distribution of a surface antigen in bovine brain capillary endothelial cells that is not present in capillary endothelia of liver, heart, or kidney. The correlation of the immunoperoxidase and immunoprecipitation techniques suggests that a candidate for the asymmetrically distributed surface antigen in the BBB is the 46K protein. The relationship between the 46K protein and the composition of BBB tight junctions remains to be determined.

Antibodies to Blood—Brain Barrier Bind Selectively to Brain Capillary Endothelial Lateral Membranes and to a 46K Protein