Exocytosis in Single Chromaffin Cells: Regulation by a Secretory Granule-Associated Go Protein |
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Authors: | Nicolas Vitale François Gonon Danièle Thiersé Dominique Aunis Marie-France Bader |
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Institution: | (1) Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U-338 Biologie de la Communication Cellulaire, 5 rue Blaise Pascal, 67084 Strasbourg, France;(2) Laboratoire d'Histologie-Eiesryologie (UFR II), Université de Bordeaux II, 146 rue léo-Saigneut, 33076 Bordeaux, France |
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Abstract: | 1. Besides having a role in signal transduction, trimeric G proteins may also be involved in membrane trafficking events. In chromaffin cells, G o has beenfound associated with the membrane of secretory granules. Here we examined the role of Go in regulated exocytosis using pressure microinjection combined with amperometric measurement of catecholamine secretion from individual chromaffin cells.2. Microinjection of GTP S and mastoparan strongly inhibits the amperometric response to either nicotine or high K+.3. The presence of mastoparan in the cell incubation medium had no effect on K+-evoked secretion, suggesting that mastoparan blocks the exocytotic machinery through an intracellular target protein not located just beneath the plasma membrane.4.Microinjection of anti-G o antibodies potentiates by more than 50% the K+-evoked secretion, whereas anti-G i1/2 antibodies have no effect.5. Thus an inhibitory Go protein, probably associated with secretory granules, controls exocytosis in chromaffin cells. The intracellular proteins controlling organelle-associated G proteins are currently unknown. The neuronal cytosolicprotein GAP-43 stimulates G o in purified chromaffin granule membranes and inhibits exocytosis in permeabilized cells. We show here that microinjection of a synthetic peptide corresponding to the domain of GAP-43 that interacts with Go inhibits secretion. We suggest that GAP-43 or a related cytosolic protein controls the exocytotic priming step in chromaffin cells by stimulating a granule-associated Go protein. |
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Keywords: | catecholamine secretion chromaffin cell heterotrimeric G proteins mastoparan GAP-43 (neuromodulin) amperometry microinjection |
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