Clathrin And Associated Proteins On Tubulovesicles And Apical Membranes Of Parietal Cells

Author(s):  
Curtis T. Okamoto ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Catherine S. Chew
2002 ◽  
Vol 283 (5) ◽  
pp. G1207-G1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Petrovic ◽  
Zhaohui Wang ◽  
Liyun Ma ◽  
Ursula Seidler ◽  
John G. Forte ◽  
...  

The apical Cl−/HCO[Formula: see text] exchanger called the putative anion transporter (PAT1; SLC26A6) is expressed on apical membranes of villus cells in the duodenum, but its location in the stomach remains unknown. Here we examined the cell distribution and membrane location of PAT1 in mouse stomach. Immunofluorescence labeling studies with anti-PAT1 antibodies and Dolichos biflorusagglutinin indicated the exclusive expression of PAT1 in gastric parietal cells. Double immunocytochemical staining revealed colocalization of PAT1 with the gastric H-K-ATPase, consistent with expression in tubulovesicles and/or the secretory canaliculus. Radiolabeled 36Cl flux studies demonstrated the functional presence of Cl−/HCO[Formula: see text] exchange in purified tubulovesicles of parietal cells. The expression of PAT1 was significantly decreased in parietal cells of gastric H-K-ATPase-null mice, which exhibit a sharp reduction in tubulovesicle membranes. These data indicate that the Cl−/HCO[Formula: see text]exchanger PAT1 is localized on tubulovesicular membranes, and they are consistent with the hypothesis that it functions in the maintenance of intravesicular ion concentrations in the resting state and dehydration of vesicles derived from the secretory membranes following the transition from the stimulated to the resting state.


2007 ◽  
Vol 293 (4) ◽  
pp. F1197-F1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li E. Yang ◽  
Patrick K. K. Leong ◽  
Alicia A. McDonough

To determine the effects of long-term angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition (ACEI) and blood pressure (BP) lowering on renal sodium transporter abundance and distribution in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), 9-wk SHR were treated with enalapril (30 mg·kg−1·day−1) for 4 wk. BP decreased from 156 ± 4 to 96 ± 8 mmHg. Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 3 (NHE3) and Na+-Pi cotransporter type 2 (NaPi2) localized to the body of the microvilli (MV) in normotensive rat strains. In untreated SHR, NHE3 partially retracted from the body to base of the MV and NaPi2 retracted to subapical vesicles. After enalapril treatment of SHR, NHE3 fully retracted to the base of the MV and, by density gradient fractionation, NHE3, NaPi2, dipeptidyl peptidase IV, myosin VI, Na-Cl cotransporter, and cortical Na-K-Cl cotransporter redistributed from low-density (apical enriched) to high-density (endosome enriched) membranes. Enalapril decreased total abundance of myosin VI (to 0.51 ± 0.18 of untreated), ACE (0.67 ± 0.22), and cortical NaPi2 (0.83 ± 0.10). Normalizing SHR BP with HRH (7.5 mg/day hydralazine, 0.15 mg/day reserpine, and 3 mg/day hydrochlorothiazide) did not change Na+ transporter density distribution or abundance. We conclude that lowering BP to normal levels in SHR does not normalize Na+ transporter distribution, rather, chronic ACEI treatment provokes retraction of Na+ transporters and associated proteins from transport-relevant domains of apical membranes and/or reduces their abundance.


2005 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Tamura ◽  
Shojiro Kikuchi ◽  
Masaki Hata ◽  
Tatsuya Katsuno ◽  
Takeshi Matsui ◽  
...  

Loss of gastric acid secretion is pathologically known as achlorhydria. Acid-secreting parietal cells are characterized by abundant expression of ezrin (Vil2), one of ezrin/radixin/moesin proteins, which generally cross-link actin filaments with plasma membrane proteins. Here, we show the direct in vivo involvement of ezrin in gastric acid secretion. Ezrin knockout (Vil2−/−) mice did not survive >1.5 wk after birth, making difficult to examine gastric acid secretion. We then generated ezrin knockdown (Vil2kd/kd) mice by introducing a neomycin resistance cassette between exons 2 and 3. Vil2kd/kd mice born at the expected Mendelian ratio exhibited growth retardation and a high mortality. Approximately 7% of Vil2kd/kd mice survived to adulthood. Ezrin protein levels in Vil2kd/kd stomachs decreased to <5% of the wild-type levels without compensatory up-regulation of radixin or moesin. Adult Vil2kd/kd mice suffered from severe achlorhydria. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopy revealed that this achlorhydria was caused by defects in the formation/expansion of canalicular apical membranes in gastric parietal cells.


2000 ◽  
Vol 279 (3) ◽  
pp. C833-C851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis T. Okamoto ◽  
Joseph G. Duman ◽  
Kamala Tyagarajan ◽  
Kent L. McDonald ◽  
Young Y. Jeng ◽  
...  

Clathrin from H-K-ATPase-rich membranes derived from the tubulovesicular compartment of rabbit and hog gastric acid secretory (parietal) cells was characterized biochemically, and the subcellular localization of membrane-associated clathrin in parietal cells was characterized by immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, and immunoelectron microscopy. Clathrin from H-K- ATPase-rich membranes was determined to be comprised of conventional clathrin heavy chain and a predominance of clathrin light chain A. Clathrin and adaptors could be induced to polymerize quantitatively in vitro, forming 120-nm-diameter basketlike structures. In digitonin-permeabilized resting parietal cells, the intracellular distribution of immunofluorescently labeled clathrin was suggestive of labeling of the tubulovesicular compartment. Clathrin was also unexpectedly localized to canalicular (apical) membranes, as were α-adaptin and dynamin, suggesting that this membrane domain of resting parietal cells is endocytotically active. At the ultrastructural level, clathrin was immunolocalized to canalicular and tubulovesicular membranes. H-K-ATPase was immunolocalized to the same membrane domains as clathrin but did not appear to be enriched at the specific subdomains that were enriched in clathrin. Finally, in immunofluorescently labeled primary cultures of parietal cells, in contrast to the H-K-ATPase, intracellular clathrin was found not to translocate to the apical membrane on secretagogue stimulation. Taken together, these biochemical and morphological data provide a framework for characterizing the role of clathrin in the regulation of membrane trafficking from tubulovesicles and at the canalicular membrane in parietal cells.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian L. Miller ◽  
Anastasia Andringa ◽  
Yana Zavros ◽  
Emily M. Bradford ◽  
Gary E. Shull

Acid secretion in gastric parietal cells requires highly coordinated membrane transport and vesicle trafficking. Histologically, consensus defines acid secretion as the ratio of the volume density (Vd) of canalicular and apical membranes (CAMs) to tubulovesicular (TV) membranes, a value which varies widely under normal conditions. Examination of numerous achlorhydric mice made it clear that this paradigm is discrepant when used to assess most mice with genetic mutations affecting acid secretion. Vd of organelles in parietal cells of 6 genetically engineered mouse strains was obtained to identify a stable histological phenotype of acid secretion. We confirmed that CAM to TV ratio fairly represented secretory activity in untreated and secretion-inhibited wild-type (WT) mice and in NHE2−/− mice as well, though the response was significantly attenuated in the latter. However, high CAM to TV ratios wrongly posed as active acid secretion in AE2−/−, GHKA−/−, and NHE4−/− mice. Achlorhydric genotypes also had a significantly higher Vd of basolateral membrane than WT mice, and reduced Vd of mitochondria and canaliculi. The Vd of mitochondria, and ratio of the Vd of basolateral membranes/Vd of mitochondria were preferred predictors of the level of acid secretion. Alterations in acid secretion, then, cause significant changes not only in the Vd of secretory membranes but also in mitochondria and basolateral membranes.


Author(s):  
A. Tonosaki ◽  
M. Yamasaki ◽  
H. Washioka ◽  
J. Mizoguchi

A vertebrate disk membrane is composed of 40 % lipids and 60 % proteins. Its fracture faces have been classed into the plasmic (PF) and exoplasmic faces (EF), complementary with each other, like those of most other types of cell membranes. The hypothesis assuming the PF particles as representing membrane-associated proteins has been challenged by serious questions if they in fact emerge from the crystalline formation or decoration effects during freezing and shadowing processes. This problem seems to be yet unanswered, despite the remarkable case of the purple membrane of Halobacterium, partly because most observations have been made on the replicas from a single face of specimen, and partly because, in the case of photoreceptor membranes, the conformation of a rhodopsin and its relatives remains yet uncertain. The former defect seems to be partially fulfilled with complementary replica methods.


Author(s):  
S.B. Andrews ◽  
R.D. Leapman ◽  
P.E. Gallant ◽  
T.S. Reese

As part of a study on protein interactions involved in microtubule (MT)-based transport, we used the VG HB501 field-emission STEM to obtain low-dose dark-field mass maps of isolated, taxol-stabilized MTs and correlated these micrographs with detailed stereo images from replicas of the same MTs. This approach promises to be useful for determining how protein motors interact with MTs. MTs prepared from bovine and squid brain tubulin were purified and free from microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). These MTs (0.1-1 mg/ml tubulin) were adsorbed to 3-nm evaporated carbon films supported over Formvar nets on 600-m copper grids. Following adsorption, the grids were washed twice in buffer and then in either distilled water or in isotonic or hypotonic ammonium acetate, blotted, and plunge-frozen in ethane/propane cryogen (ca. -185 C). After cryotransfer into the STEM, specimens were freeze-dried and recooled to ca.-160 C for low-dose (<3000 e/nm2) dark-field mapping. The molecular weights per unit length of MT were determined relative to tobacco mosaic virus standards from elastic scattering intensities. Parallel grids were freeze-dried and rotary shadowed with Pt/C at 14°.


Author(s):  
Kent McDonald

At the light microscope level the recent developments and interest in antibody technology have permitted the localization of certain non-microtubule proteins within the mitotic spindle, e.g., calmodulin, actin, intermediate filaments, protein kinases and various microtubule associated proteins. Also, the use of fluorescent probes like chlorotetracycline suggest the presence of membranes in the spindle. Localization of non-microtubule structures in the spindle at the EM level has been less rewarding. Some mitosis researchers, e.g., Rarer, have maintained that actin is involved in mitosis movements though the bulk of evidence argues against this interpretation. Others suggest that a microtrabecular network such as found in chromatophore granule movement might be a possible force generator but there is little evidence for or against this view. At the level of regulation of spindle function, Harris and more recently Hepler have argued for the importance of studying spindle membranes. Hepler also believes that membranes might play a structural or mechanical role in moving chromosomes.


Author(s):  
R.A Walker ◽  
S. Inoue ◽  
E.D. Salmon

Microtubules polymerized in vitro from tubulin purified free of microtubule-associated proteins exhibit dynamic instability (1,2,3). Free microtubule ends exist in persistent phases of elongation or rapid shortening with infrequent, but, abrupt transitions between these phases. The abrupt transition from elongation to rapid shortening is termed catastrophe and the abrupt transition from rapid shortening to elongation is termed rescue. A microtubule is an asymmetrical structure. The plus end grows faster than the minus end. The frequency of catastrophe of the plus end is somewhat greater than the minus end, while the frequency of rescue of the plus end in much lower than for the minus end (4).The mechanism of catastrophe is controversial, but for both the plus and minus microtubule ends, catastrophe is thought to be dependent on GTP hydrolysis. Microtubule elongation occurs by the association of tubulin-GTP subunits to the growing end. Sometime after incorporation into an elongating microtubule end, the GTP is hydrolyzed to GDP, yielding a core of tubulin-GDP capped by tubulin-GTP (“GTP-cap”).


Author(s):  
P. Gambetti ◽  
G. Perry ◽  
L. Autillo-Gambetti

Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) are one of the major pathologic lesions of Alzheimer's disease. These neuronal inclusions are predominantly composed of paired helical filaments (PHF), which consist of two 10 nm filaments winding around each other with an approximately 80 nm periodicity. Besides PHF, NFT comprise also 15 nm filaments, 10 nm filaments which are probably neurofilaments, microtubules and granular material. At variance with the neuronal cytoskeleton, PHF are insoluble in ionic detergent.Studies at the light microscope level have shown that NFT have unique antigenic determinants as well as determinants in common with elements of the normal neuronal cytoskeleton such as neurofilaments and microtubule-associated proteins. The present study uses immunocytochemistry and cytochemistry at the electron microscope level to assess which NFT component contains these determinants and whether these antigenic determinants are soluble in an ionic detergent.


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