scholarly journals Immunological detection of spectrin during differentiation and in mature ciliated cells from quail oviduct

1989 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-690
Author(s):  
B. Chailley ◽  
T. Frappier ◽  
F. Regnouf ◽  
M.C. Laine

A protein that was immunologically related to the erythrocyte and brain alpha-240-subunit and to the brain beta-235-subunit of spectrin was characterized by immunoblotting and was detected by immunofluorescence in the apical part of ciliated cells from quail oviduct. After immunogold-labeling electron immunocytochemistry, spectrin was detected mainly in a fibrillar meshwork located between the proximal parts of the basal bodies. It was also observed to be in contact with the basal foot of basal bodies, but was not found to be associated with the apical plasma membrane. Cilia and microvilli were unlabeled. In contrast, spectrin was detected in close contact with the lateral plasma membrane of mature ciliated cells as well as in stem epithelial cells in unstimulated oviduct. During ciliogenesis induced by estrogen, spectrin gradually appeared at the apex of the cells as the apical cytoskeleton differentiated.

1990 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Lemullois ◽  
M.C. Marty

In quail oviduct, a 175K (K = 10(3) Mr) protein associated with striated rootlets was previously identified by Klotz and co-workers using monoclonal antibody CC310. As this monoclonal antibody recognizes several proteins on immunoblots of ciliated cells, we prepared a polyclonal antibody monospecific to the 175K protein by intrasplenic immunization of mice. Immunofluorescence study confirmed the distribution of the 175K protein at the apical part of the ciliated cell and its absence in other epithelial cells. Immunogold staining showed that this protein was strongly associated with the fibrillar axis of striated rootlets. The absence of labeling on striation suggested that rootlets were composed of several proteins, with one group forming the fibrillar axis and the second forming the striation. The formation of striated rootlets during ciliogenesis was studied using this polyclonal antibody. The 175K protein appeared at the beginning of centriologenesis in fibrillar material located around dense granules, and then around the generative complex. The formation of rootlets began at the basal pole of migrating basal bodies. The elongation of the rootlet axes took place when basal bodies were anchored to the plasma membrane.


Author(s):  
Robert Hard ◽  
Gerald Rupp ◽  
Matthew L. Withiam-Leitch ◽  
Lisa Cardamone

In a coordinated field of beating cilia, the direction of the power stroke is correlated with the orientation of basal body appendages, called basal feet. In newt lung ciliated cells, adjacent basal feet are interconnected by cold-stable microtubules (basal MTs). In the present study, we investigate the hypothesis that these basal MTs stabilize ciliary distribution and alignment. To accomplish this, newt lung primary cultures were treated with the microtubule disrupting agent, Colcemid. In newt lung cultures, cilia normally disperse in a characteristic fashion as the mucociliary epithelium migrates from the tissue explant. Four arbitrary, but progressive stages of dispersion were defined and used to monitor this redistribution process. Ciliaiy beat frequency, coordination, and dispersion were assessed for 91 hrs in untreated (control) and treated cultures. When compared to controls, cilia dispersed more rapidly and ciliary coordination decreased markedly in cultures treated with Colcemid (2 mM). Correlative LM/EM was used to assess whether these effects of Colcemid were coupled to ultrastructural changes. Living cells were defined as having coordinated or uncoordinated cilia and then were processed for transmission EM.


1994 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
BP Jena ◽  
FD Gumkowski ◽  
EM Konieczko ◽  
GF von Mollard ◽  
R Jahn ◽  
...  

Regulated secretion from pancreatic acinar cells occurs by exocytosis of zymogen granules (ZG) at the apical plasmalemma. ZGs originate from the TGN and undergo prolonged maturation and condensation. After exocytosis, the zymogen granule membrane (ZGM) is retrieved from the plasma membrane and ultimately reaches the TGN. In this study, we analyzed the fate of a low M(r) GTP-binding protein during induced exocytosis and membrane retrieval using immunoblots as well as light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. This 27-kD protein, identified by a monoclonal antibody that recognizes rab3A and B, may be a novel rab3 isoform. In resting acinar cells, the rab3-like protein was detected primarily on the cytoplasmic face of ZGs, with little labeling of the Golgi complex and no significant labeling of the apical plasmalemma or any other intracellular membranes. Stimulation of pancreatic lobules in vitro by carbamylcholine for 15 min, resulted in massive exocytosis that led to a near doubling of the area of the apical plasma membrane. However, no relocation of the rab3-like protein to the apical plasmalemma was seen. After 3 h of induced exocytosis, during which time approximately 90% of the ZGs is released, the rab3-like protein appeared to translocate to small vesicles and newly forming secretory granules in the TGN. No significant increase of the rab3-like protein was found in the cytosolic fraction at any time during stimulation. Since the protein is not detected on the apical plasmalemma after stimulation, we conclude that recycling may involve a membrane dissociation-association cycle that accompanies regulated exocytosis.


2010 ◽  
Vol 102 (11) ◽  
pp. 593-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateja Erdani Kreft ◽  
Daniele Giandomenico ◽  
Galina V. Beznoussenko ◽  
Nataša Resnik ◽  
Alexander A. Mironov ◽  
...  

1988 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 635-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
J L Salisbury ◽  
A T Baron ◽  
M A Sanders

Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies raised against algal centrin, a protein of algal striated flagellar roots, were used to characterize the occurrence and distribution of this protein in interphase and mitotic Chlamydomonas cells. Chlamydomonas centrin, as identified by Western immunoblot procedures, is a low molecular (20,000-Mr) acidic protein. Immunofluorescence and immunogold labeling demonstrates that centrin is a component of the distal fiber. In addition, centrin-based flagellar roots link the flagellar apparatus to the nucleus. Two major descending fibers extend from the basal bodies toward the nucleus; each descending fiber branches several times giving rise to 8-16 fimbria which surround and embrace the nucleus. Immunogold labeling indicates that these fimbria are juxtaposed to the outer nuclear envelope. Earlier studies have demonstrated that the centrin-based linkage between the flagellar apparatus and the nucleus is contractile, both in vitro and in living Chlamydomonas cells (Wright, R. L., J. Salisbury, and J. Jarvik. 1985. J. Cell Biol. 101:1903-1912; Salisbury, J. L., M. A. Sanders, and L. Harpst. 1987. J. Cell Biol. 105:1799-1805). Immunofluorescence studies show dramatic changes in distribution of the centrin-based system during mitosis that include a transient contraction at preprophase; division, separation, and re-extension during prophase; and a second transient contraction at the metaphase/anaphase boundary. These observations suggest a fundamental role for centrin in motile events during mitosis.


1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1437-1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Galli ◽  
Ahmed Zahraoui ◽  
Vadakkanchery V. Vaidyanathan ◽  
Graça Raposo ◽  
Jian Min Tian ◽  
...  

The importance of soluble N-ethyl maleimide (NEM)-sensitive fusion protein (NSF) attachment protein (SNAP) receptors (SNAREs) in synaptic vesicle exocytosis is well established because it has been demonstrated that clostridial neurotoxins (NTs) proteolyze the vesicle SNAREs (v-SNAREs) vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP)/brevins and their partners, the target SNAREs (t-SNAREs) syntaxin 1 and SNAP25. Yet, several exocytotic events, including apical exocytosis in epithelial cells, are insensitive to numerous clostridial NTs, suggesting the presence of SNARE-independent mechanisms of exocytosis. In this study we found that syntaxin 3, SNAP23, and a newly identified VAMP/brevin, tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT)-insensitive VAMP (TI-VAMP), are insensitive to clostridial NTs. In epithelial cells, TI-VAMP–containing vesicles were concentrated in the apical domain, and the protein was detected at the apical plasma membrane by immunogold labeling on ultrathin cryosections. Syntaxin 3 and SNAP23 were codistributed at the apical plasma membrane where they formed NEM-dependent SNARE complexes with TI-VAMP and cellubrevin. We suggest that TI-VAMP, SNAP23, and syntaxin 3 can participate in exocytotic processes at the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells and, more generally, domain-specific exocytosis in clostridial NT-resistant pathways.


1996 ◽  
Vol 109 (6) ◽  
pp. 1215-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Hemery ◽  
A.M. Durand-Schneider ◽  
G. Feldmann ◽  
J.P. Vaerman ◽  
M. Maurice

In hepatocytes, newly synthesized apical plasma membrane proteins are first delivered to the basolateral surface and are supposed to reach the apical surface by transcytosis. The transcytotic pathway of apical membrane proteins and its relationship with other endosomal pathways has not been demonstrated morphologically. We compared the intracellular route of an apical plasma membrane protein, B10, with that of polymeric IgA (pIgA), which is transcytosed, transferrin (Tf) which is recycled, and asialoorosomucoid (ASOR) which is delivered to lysosomes. Ligands and anti-B10 monoclonal IgG were linked to fluorochromes or with peroxidase. The fate of each ligand was followed by confocal and electron microscopy in polarized primary monolayers of rat hepatocytes. When fluorescent anti-B10 IgG and fluorescent pIgA were simultaneously endocytosed for 15–30 minutes, they both uniformly labelled a juxtanuclear compartment. By 30–60 minutes, they reached the bile canaliculi. Tf and ASOR were also routed to the juxtanuclear area, but their fluorescence patterns were more punctate. Microtubule disruption prevented all ligands from reaching the juxtanuclear area. This area corresponded, at least partially, to the localization of the mannose 6-phosphate receptor, an endosomal marker. By electron microscopy, the juxtanuclear compartment was made up of anastomosing tubules connected to vacuoles, and was organized around the centrioles. B10 and pIgA were mainly found in the tubules, whereas ASOR was segregated inside the vacuolar elements and Tf within thinner, recycling tubules. In conclusion, transcytosis of the apical membrane protein B10 occurs inside tubules similar to those carrying pIgA, and involves passage via the pericentriolar area. In the pericentriolar area, the transcytotic tubules appear to maintain connections with other endosomal elements where sorting between recycled and degraded ligands occurs.


Endocrinology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Martín ◽  
Carlos Pablo Modenutti ◽  
Victoria Peyret ◽  
Romina Celeste Geysels ◽  
Elisabeth Darrouzet ◽  
...  

Abstract The Na+/iodide (I−) symporter (NIS), a glycoprotein expressed at the basolateral plasma membrane of thyroid follicular cells, mediates I− accumulation for thyroid hormonogenesis and radioiodide therapy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma. However, differentiated thyroid tumors often exhibit lower I− transport than normal thyroid tissue (or even undetectable I− transport). Paradoxically, the majority of differentiated thyroid cancers show intracellular NIS expression, suggesting abnormal targeting to the plasma membrane. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the mechanisms that regulate NIS plasma membrane transport would have multiple implications for radioiodide therapy. In this study, we show that the intracellularly facing carboxy-terminus of NIS is required for the transport of the protein to the plasma membrane. Moreover, the carboxy-terminus contains dominant basolateral information. Using internal deletions and site-directed mutagenesis at the carboxy-terminus, we identified a highly conserved monoleucine-based sorting motif that determines NIS basolateral expression. Furthermore, in clathrin adaptor protein (AP)-1B–deficient cells, NIS sorting to the basolateral plasma membrane is compromised, causing the protein to also be expressed at the apical plasma membrane. Computer simulations suggest that the AP-1B subunit σ1 recognizes the monoleucine-based sorting motif in NIS carboxy-terminus. Although the mechanisms by which NIS is intracellularly retained in thyroid cancer remain elusive, our findings may open up avenues for identifying molecular targets that can be used to treat radioiodide-refractory thyroid tumors that express NIS intracellularly.


1992 ◽  
Vol 263 (3) ◽  
pp. C590-C597 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Golstein ◽  
M. Abramow ◽  
J. E. Dumont ◽  
R. Beauwens

The uptake of radioactive iodide or chloride by plasma membrane vesicles of bovine thyroid was studied by a rapid filtration technique. A Na(+)-I- cotransport was demonstrated. When this Na(+)-I- cotransport is inactive (i.e., at 4 degrees C and in the absence of Na+), an uptake of iodide above chemical equilibrium could be induced, driven by the membrane potential. The latter was set up by allowing potassium to diffuse into the membrane vesicles in the presence of valinomycin and of an inward K+ gradient. This potential difference (positive inside) induced the uptake of iodide (or other anion present). The data support the existence of two anionic channels. The first one, observed at low near-physiological iodide concentration (micromolar range), which exhibits a high permeability and specificity for iodide (hence called the iodide channel), has a Km of 70 microM. The other one appears similar to the epithelial anion channel as described by Landry et al. (J. Gen. Physiol. 90: 779-798, 1987); it is still about fourfold more permeable to iodide than to chloride and presents a Km of 33 mM. Under physiological conditions the latter channel would mediate chloride transport, and the iodide channel, which is proposed to be restricted to the apical plasma membrane domain of the thyrocyte, transports iodide from the cytosol to the colloid space.


1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (6) ◽  
pp. C1588-C1596 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Feng ◽  
N. Kraus-Friedmann

Studies were carried out to characterize the interaction between inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptors and the plasma membrane fraction. Extraction of the membranes with the nonionic detergents Nonidet P-40 and Triton X-100, followed by centrifugation at 100,000 g, resulted in the doubling of the IP3 receptor in the pellets, whereas no detectable binding was found in the supernatants. These data indicate that the detergents did not solubilize the receptor, that it remained associated with membrane particles, and that it is likely to be associated with the cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton proteins actin, ankyrin, and spectrin were identified in the plasma membrane fraction. However, comparison of the amount of these proteins in different fractions of the detergent, or otherwise treated plasma membrane fractions, showed no direct correlation between the presence of any of these proteins in the plasma membrane fraction and their ability to bind [3H]IP3. This is in contrast to the brain and T-lymphoma cells in which the IP3 receptor is attached to ankyrin (L. Y. W. Bourguigon, H. Jin, N. Iida, N. R. Brandt, and S. H. Zhang. J. Biol. Chem. 268: 6477-6486, 1993; and S. K. Joseph and S. Samanta. J. Biol. Chem 268: 6477-6486, 1993). Thus the hepatic IP3 receptor, which is different from the brain receptor, might attach to the cytoskeleton by anchoring to a different protein. Because cytochalasin D treatment of livers diminishes the ability of IP3 to raise cytosolic free Ca2+ levels, the attachment of the IP3 receptor to the cytoskeleton seems to involve an association with microfilaments.


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