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Título
A confocal study on the visualization of chromaffin cell secretory vesicles with fluorescent targeted probes and acidic dyes
Autor
Año del Documento
2010
Editorial
Elsevier Inc.
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Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Journal of Structural Biology, 2010, vol. 172, p. 261-269
Résumé
Secretory vesicles have low pH and have been classically identified as those labelled by a series of acidic
fluorescent dyes such as acridine orange or neutral red, which accumulate into the vesicles according to
the pH gradient. More recently, several fusion proteins containing enhanced green fluorescent protein
(EGFP) and targeted to the secretory vesicles have been engineered. Both targeted fluorescent proteins
and acidic dyes have been used, separately or combined, to monitor the dynamics of secretory vesicle
movements and their fusion with the plasma membrane. We have now investigated in detail the degree
of colocalization of both types of probes using several fusion proteins targeted to the vesicles (synaptobrevin2-
EGFP, Cromogranin A-EGFP and neuropeptide Y-EGFP) and several acidic dyes (acridine orange,
neutral red and lysotracker red) in chromaffin cells, PC12 cells and GH3 cells. We find that all the acidic
dyes labelled the same population of vesicles. However, that population was largely different from the
one labelled by the targeted proteins, with very little colocalization among them, in all the cell types
studied. Our data show that the vesicles containing the proteins more characteristic of the secretory vesicles
are not labelled by the acidic dyes, and vice versa. Peptide glycyl-L-phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide
(GPN) produced a rapid and selective disruption of the vesicles labelled by acidic dyes, suggesting that
they could be mainly lysosomes. Therefore, these labelling techniques distinguish two clearly different
sets of acidic vesicles in neuroendocrine cells. This finding should be taken into account whenever vesicle
dynamics is studied using these techniques.
Materias (normalizadas)
Calcio en el organismo
ISSN
1047-8477
Revisión por pares
SI
Idioma
eng
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openAccess
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