Figure 4. Endothelial cells internalize
angiogenin in culture. Rf/6a chorioretinal endothelial cells incubated
with recombinant human angiogenin (A-C) and with the
control protein, BSA (BSA; D-F). Cells exposed to
angiogenin exhibit intense angiogenin labeling, indicating that they
actively import the protein. Cells that were not exposed to angiogenin
demonstrated only faint labeling in the cytosol, attributed to
endogenous angiogenin. Filamentous actin is labeled with phalloidin (A,
D) and nuclei are labeled with diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI;
blue).