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Retrieving vesicles in secretion-induced rat chromaffin cells contain fodrin

T Fujimoto and K Ogawa

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.

We examined the distribution of fodrin and cytochrome b561 in secretion- induced rat chromaffin cells (epinephrine cells) by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy. Fasted rats injected with a large dose of insulin were perfusion-fixed and frozen sections of the adrenal medulla were immunolabeled. Fodrin, a peripheral membrane protein, was distributed only in the cell periphery in control cells, but was observed in the cell interior after the insulin treatment; many of the markers were found around small vesicles, 50-200 nm in diameter, and large vacuoles, more than 500 nm in diameter. On the other hand, cytochrome b561, an integral membrane protein, was seen only in the chromaffin granules in control cells, and appeared in small vesicles in the stimulated cells but not in large vacuoles. By double immunolabeling it was shown that cytochrome b561 coexisted with fodrin in the small vesicles. The coexistence of the two proteins was confirmed by the labeling of subcellular particles immunoadsorbed from the insulin-treated adrenal medulla homogenate; vesicles immunoisolated with anti-fodrin antibody on polyacrylamide beads were positively immunolabeled with anti-cytochrome b561 antibody. The present results show that during massive secretion fodrin is taken into the cell interior by vesicles, which may be a mechanism that retrieves the secretory granule membrane from the cell surface.

Volume 37, Issue 11, pp. 1589-1599, 11/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by The Histochemical Society


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