Newly synthesized secretory proteins from pig pancreas are not released from a homogeneous granule compartment |
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Authors: | Michel Roberge Adrien R. Beaudoin |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de recherche sur les mécanismes de sécrétion, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Univesité de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, P.Q., J1K 2R1, Canada |
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Abstract: | The pancreatic secretion of anesthetized pigs was collected by cannulation after pulse labeling with [3H]leucine. Collection at 5 min intervals started immediately post-pulse labeling up to 85 min. The volume, the protein content and the trichloroacetic acid-precipitable radioactivity of the juice were measued. The specific radioactivity of the secertory proteins was compared to that of a zymogen granule fraction isolated from the same animal. The latter was very much higher. Caerulein stimulation for 5 min at 80 min post-pulse caused a sharp drop in the specific activity of secretory proteins in the juice, to a level lower than that of the zymogen granule content. These data support the concept of more than one pool of secretory proteins in the pancreas and are incompatible with the concept that secretory proteins derive from an homogeneous granule compartment in a functionally homogeneous population of cells. To explain our results the hypothesis of a second intracellular route for the secretory proteins is proposed. |
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Keywords: | Zymogen granule Caerulein Protein secretion (Pig pancreas) |
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