Abstract
To examine the freeze-fracture appearance of membrane alterations at sites of exocytosis in mammalian cells, we studied the secretory granule and plasma membrane of rat pancreatic B-cells during glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. Constant features observed were the scarcity of particles in secretory-granule P-fracture faces and the almost total clearance of intramembranous particles in P-and E fracture faces of the plasma membrane in areas of close apposition of these two membranes preceding fusion; also observed was the temporary persistence of particle-cleared regions after the fusion was completed. Our observations thus support the concept that membranes fuse at sites of closely apposed, particle-free regions and that the physiologically created clear areas found in freeze-fracture replicas of the plasma membrane are the hallmarks of incipient or recent membrane fusion.
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Created | 21 years, 3 months ago (May 14, 2004, 7:04 p.m.) |
Deposited | 2 years, 1 month ago (July 24, 2023, 3:58 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year ago (Aug. 9, 2024, 9:38 p.m.) |
Issued | 47 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 1, 1977) |
Published | 47 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 1, 1977) |
Published Online | 47 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 1, 1977) |
Published Print | 47 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 1, 1977) |
@article{Orci_1977, title={Freeze-fracture of membrane fusions during exocytosis in pancreatic B-cells.}, volume={75}, ISSN={1540-8140}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.75.1.23}, DOI={10.1083/jcb.75.1.23}, number={1}, journal={The Journal of cell biology}, publisher={Rockefeller University Press}, author={Orci, L and Perrelet, A and Friend, D S}, year={1977}, month=oct, pages={23–30} }