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Liu J, Wu H, Huang C, Lei D, Zhang M, Xie W, Li J, Ren G. Optimized Negative-Staining Protocol for Lipid-Protein Interactions Investigated by Electron Microscopy. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 2003:163-173. [PMID: 31218618 PMCID: PMC6817366 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9512-7_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
A large number of proteins are capable of inserting themselves into lipids, and interacting with membranes, such as transmembrane proteins and apolipoproteins. Insights into the lipid-protein interactions are important in understanding biological processes, and the structure of proteins at the lipid binding stage can help identify their roles and critical functions. Previously, such structural determination was challenging to obtain because the traditional methods, such as X-ray crystallography, are unable to capture the conformational and compositional heterogeneity of protein-lipid complexes. Electron microscopy (EM) is an alternative approach to determining protein structures and visualizing lipid-protein interactions directly, and negative-staining (OpNS), a subset of EM techniques, is a rapid, frequently used qualitative approach. The concern, however, is that current NS protocols often generate artifacts with lipid-related proteins, such as rouleaux formation from lipoproteins. To overcome this artifact formation, Ren and his colleagues have refined early NS protocols, and developed an optimized NS protocol that validated by comparing images of lipoproteins from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). This optimized NS protocol produces "near native-state" particle images and high contrast images of the protein in its native lipid-binding state, which can be used to create higher-quality three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction by single-particle analysis and electron tomography (e.g. IPET). This optimized protocol is thus a promising hands-on approach for examining the structure of proteins at their lipid-binding status.
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- Jianfang Liu
- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Computer Science, College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, The Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center for Cellular and Structural Biology, The Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, GA, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Jena BP, Gatti DL, Arslanturk S, Pernal S, Taatjes DJ. Human skeletal muscle cell atlas: Unraveling cellular secrets utilizing 'muscle-on-a-chip', differential expansion microscopy, mass spectrometry, nanothermometry and machine learning. Micron 2018; 117:55-59. [PMID: 30472499 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The 'Human Cell Atlas' project has been launched to obtain a comprehensive understanding of all cell types, the fundamental living units that constitute the human body. This is a global partnership and effort involving experts from many disciplines, from computer science, engineering to medicine, and is supported by several private and public organizations, among them, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and Google, that will greatly benefit humanity. Nearly 37 trillion cells of various shapes, sizes, and composition, are precisely organized to constitute the human body. Humans, like all other living organisms, are dynamic, and therefore a comprehensive understanding of different cells in their various dynamic states is required to provide a reference map for the early diagnosis and various preventive approach to disease, and in the development of precision therapeutics. Skeletal muscles being the most abundant tissue and the largest locomotor and metabolic organ in the human body, requires a global understanding of its structure, composition, and function. The objective of creating a 'Human Skeletal Muscle Cell Atlas', necessitates therefore a comprehensive understanding of the emergent properties of skeletal muscle cell growth, development, structure, function and chemistry, under conditions of activity and inactivity. To achieve this objective would require a very precise yet rapid and cost-effective approach of combined multimodal imaging, including our new and novel 'Differential Expansion Microscopy', our 'Nanoscale Thermometry', combined with 'Mass Spectrometry', 'Motor Protein Motility Assay' and 'Machine Learning' tools.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Microscopy Imaging Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Lewis KT, Maddipati KR, Naik AR, Jena BP. Unique Lipid Chemistry of Synaptic Vesicle and Synaptosome Membrane Revealed Using Mass Spectrometry. ACS Chem Neurosci 2017; 8:1163-1169. [PMID: 28244738 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Synaptic vesicles measuring 30-50 nm in diameter containing neurotransmitters either completely collapse at the presynaptic membrane or dock and transiently fuse at the base of specialized 15 nm cup-shaped lipoprotein structures called porosomes at the presynaptic membrane of synaptosomes to release neurotransmitters. Recent study reports the unique composition of major lipids associated with neuronal porosomes. Given that lipids greatly influence the association and functions of membrane proteins, differences in lipid composition of synaptic vesicle and the synaptosome membrane was hypothesized. To test this hypothesis, the lipidome of isolated synaptosome, synaptosome membrane, and synaptic vesicle preparation were determined by using mass spectrometry in the current study. Results from the study demonstrate the enriched presence of triacyl glycerols and sphingomyelins in synaptic vesicles, as opposed to the enriched presence of phospholipids in the synaptosome membrane fraction, reflecting on the tight regulation of nerve cells in compartmentalization of membrane lipids at the nerve terminal.
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- Kenneth T. Lewis
- Department
of Physiology and ‡Department of Pathology, Lipidomics Core Facility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
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- Department
of Physiology and ‡Department of Pathology, Lipidomics Core Facility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
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- Department
of Physiology and ‡Department of Pathology, Lipidomics Core Facility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
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- Department
of Physiology and ‡Department of Pathology, Lipidomics Core Facility, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
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Cup-shaped secretory portals at the cell plasma membrane called porosomes mediate the precision release of intravesicular material from cells. Membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse at the base of porosomes facing the cytosol to expel pressurized intravesicular contents from the cell during secretion. The structure, isolation, composition, and functional reconstitution of the neuronal porosome complex have greatly progressed, providing a molecular understanding of its function in health and disease. Neuronal porosomes are 15 nm cup-shaped lipoprotein structures composed of nearly 40 proteins, compared to the 120 nm nuclear pore complex composed of >500 protein molecules. Membrane proteins compose the porosome complex, making it practically impossible to solve its atomic structure. However, atomic force microscopy and small-angle X-ray solution scattering studies have provided three-dimensional structural details of the native neuronal porosome at sub-nanometer resolution, providing insights into the molecular mechanism of its function. The participation of several porosome proteins previously implicated in neurotransmission and neurological disorders, further attest to the crosstalk between porosome proteins and their coordinated involvement in release of neurotransmitter at the synapse.
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- Akshata R Naik
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Electron microscopic morphometry of isolated rat brain porosome complex. Neurosci Res 2015; 100:17-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2015.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Rajagopal A, Kulkarni S, Lewis KT, Chen X, Maarouf A, Kelly CV, Taatjes DJ, Jena BP. Proteome of the insulin-secreting Min6 cell porosome complex: involvement of Hsp90 in its assembly and function. J Proteomics 2014; 114:83-92. [PMID: 25464371 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2014] [Revised: 10/19/2014] [Accepted: 11/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
UNLABELLED Porosomes are secretory portals located at the cell plasma membrane involved in the regulated release of intravesicular contents from cells. Porosomes have been immunoisolated from a number of cells including the exocrine pancreas and neurons, biochemically characterized, and functionally reconstituted into an artificial lipid membrane. In the current study, the proteome of the porosome complex in mouse insulinoma Min6 cells was determined, demonstrating among other proteins, the presence of 30 core proteins including the heat shock protein Hsp90. Half maximal inhibition of Hsp90 using the specific inhibitor 17-demethoxy-17-(2-prophenylamino) geldanamycin, results in the loss of proteins, including the calcium-transporting ATPase type 2C and the potassium channel subfamily K member 2 from the Min6 porosome. This loss of porosome proteins is reflected in the observed inhibition of glucose stimulated insulin release from Min6 cells exposed to the Hsp90 specific inhibitor. Results from the study implicate Hsp90 in the assembly and function of the porosome complex. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE In the present study, the porosome proteome in the insulin-secreting mouse β-cell line Min6 has been determined. Nearly 30 core proteins including the heat shock protein Hsp90 are found to compose the Min6 porosome complex. Results from the study implicate Hsp90 in the assembly of the Min6 porosome. These new findings will facilitate understanding of the porosome assembly and its function in insulin secretion.
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- Amulya Rajagopal
- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Wayne State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Wayne State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Microscopy Imaging Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA; Wayne State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Detroit, MI, USA.
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Leabu M, Niculite CM. Porosome: a membrane microdomain acting as the universal secretory portal in exocytosis. Discoveries (Craiova) 2014; 2:e29. [PMID: 32309556 PMCID: PMC6919544 DOI: 10.15190/d.2014.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Revised: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Most, if not all, cells in the organism, at least in some period of their lifetime, secrete materials that are produced within the cell. Cell secretion is a phenomenon requiring membrane fusion at a specialized plasma membrane structure called the 'porosome,' which allows the material stored within secretory vesicles to be delivered to the cell's exterior environment. This is achieved when the secretory vesicles fuse at the base of the porosome complex, establishing a fusion pore or fluid continuity between the vesicle interior and the cell's exterior. Besides cell secretion, membrane fusion is necessary for intracellular membrane traffic and vesicular transport from one endomembrane bound structure to another. In addition to cell secretion, membrane fusion is necessary for intracellular membrane trafficking and vesicle transport from one intracellular membrane to another. We suggest that the debate about whether to use the term 'porosome' or 'fusion pore' to describe this process is unnecessary, since both of these terms are useful in describing aspects of the last event of cell secretion, namely exocytosis. In this review, we will summarize the information related to the discovery of the porosome, a universal secretory portal for exocytosis, and discuss porosome molecular organization and function. Finally, we will develop the notion that the porosome is a specialized plasma membrane microdomain.
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- Mircea Leabu
- University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", and "Victor Babes" National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania
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- University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", and "Victor Babes" National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania
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Lewis KT, Maddipati KR, Taatjes DJ, Jena BP. Neuronal porosome lipidome. J Cell Mol Med 2014; 18:1927-37. [PMID: 25224862 PMCID: PMC4244008 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.12383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Cup-shaped lipoprotein structures called porosomes are the universal secretory portals at the cell plasma membrane, where secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release intravesicular contents. In neurons, porosomes measure ∼15 nm and are comprised of nearly 40 proteins, among them SNAREs, ion channels, the Gαo G-protein and several structural proteins. Earlier studies report the interaction of specific lipids and their influence on SNAREs, ion channels and G-protein function. Our own studies demonstrate the requirement of cholesterol for the maintenance of neuronal porosome integrity, and the influence of lipids on SNARE complex assembly. In this study, to further understand the role of lipids on porosome structure-function, the lipid composition of isolated neuronal porosome was determined using mass spectrometry. Using lipid-binding assays, the affinity of porosome-associated syntaxin-1A to various lipids was determined. Our mass spectrometry results demonstrate the presence of phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIP's) and phosphatidic acid (PA) among other lipids, and the enriched presence of ceramide (Cer), lysophosphatidylinositol phosphates (LPIP) and diacylglycerol (DAG). Lipid binding assays demonstrate the binding of neuronal porosome to cardiolipin, and confirm its association with PIP's and PA. The ability of exogenous PA to alter protein–protein interaction and neurotransmitter release is further demonstrated from the study.
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- Kenneth T Lewis
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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Jena BP. Neuronal Porosome-The Secretory Portal at the Nerve Terminal: It's Structure-Function, Composition, and Reconstitution. J Mol Struct 2014; 1073:187-195. [PMID: 26412873 PMCID: PMC4580341 DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2014.04.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Cup-shaped secretory portals at the cell plasma membrane called porosomes mediate secretion from cells. Membrane bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse at the cytosolic compartment of the porosome base to expel intravesicular contents to the outside during cell secretion. In the past decade, the structure, isolation, composition, and functional reconstitution of the neuronal porosome complex has been accomplished providing a molecular understanding of its structure-function. Neuronal porosomes are 15 nm cup-shaped lipoprotein structures composed of nearly 40 proteins. Being a membrane-associated supramolecular complex has precluded determination of the atomic structure of the porosome. However recent studies using small-angle X-ray solution scattering (SAXS), provide at sub-nanometer resolution, the native 3D structure of the neuronal porosome complex associated with docked synaptic vesicle at the nerve terminal. Additionally, results from the SAXS study and earlier studies using atomic force microscopy, provide the possible molecular mechanism involved in porosome-mediated neurotransmitter release at the nerve terminal.
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- Bhanu P. Jena
- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA
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Macromolecular structures embedded in the cell plasma membrane called ‘porosomes’, are involved in the regulated fractional release of intravesicular contents from cells during secretion. Porosomes range in size from 15 nm in neurons and astrocytes to 100-180 nm in the exocrine pancreas and neuroendocrine cells. Porosomes have been isolated from a number of cells, and their morphology, composition, and functional reconstitution well documented. The 3D contour map of the assembly of proteins within the porosome complex, and its native X-ray solution structure at sub-nm resolution has also advanced. This understanding now provides a platform to address diseases that may result from secretory defects. Water and ion binding to mucin impart hydration, critical for regulating viscosity of the mucus in the airways epithelia. Appropriate viscosity is required for the movement of mucus by the underlying cilia. Hence secretion of more viscous mucus prevents its proper transport, resulting in chronic and fatal airways disease such as cystic fibrosis (CF). CF is caused by the malfunction of CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a chloride channel transporter, resulting in viscous mucus in the airways. Studies in mice lacking functional CFTR secrete highly viscous mucous that adhered to the epithelium. Since CFTR is known to interact with the t-SNARE protein syntaxin-1A, and with the chloride channel CLC-3, which are also components of the porosome complex, the interactions between CFTR and the porosome complex in the mucin-secreting human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3 was hypothesized and tested. Results from the study demonstrate the presence of approximately 100 nm in size porosome complex composed of 34 proteins at the cell plasma membrane in Calu-3 cells, and the association of CFTR with the complex. In comparison, the nuclear pore complex measures 120 nm and is comprised of over 500 protein molecules. The involvement of CFTR in porosome-mediated mucin secretion is hypothesized, and is currently being tested.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Detroit, MI, USA
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Wang H, Eckel RH. What are lipoproteins doing in the brain? Trends Endocrinol Metab 2014; 25:8-14. [PMID: 24189266 PMCID: PMC4062975 DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2013.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2013] [Revised: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Lipoproteins in plasma transport lipids between tissues, however, only high-density lipoproteins (HDL) appear to traverse the blood-brain barrier (BBB); thus, lipoproteins found in the brain must be produced within the central nervous system. Apolipoproteins E (ApoE) and ApoJ are the most abundant apolipoproteins in the brain, are mostly synthesized by astrocytes, and are found on HDL. In the hippocampus and other brain regions, lipoproteins help to regulate neurobehavioral functions by processes that are lipoprotein receptor-mediated. Moreover, lipoproteins and their receptors also have roles in the regulation of body weight and energy balance, acting through lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-related protein (LRP). Thus, understanding lipoproteins and their metabolism in the brain provides a new opportunity with potential therapeutic relevance.
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- Hong Wang
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Taatjes DJ, Quinn AS, Rand JH, Jena BP. Atomic force microscopy: High resolution dynamic imaging of cellular and molecular structure in health and disease. J Cell Physiol 2013; 228:1949-55. [PMID: 23526453 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.24363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 03/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The atomic force microscope (AFM), invented in 1986, and a member of the scanning probe family of microscopes, offers the unprecedented ability to image biological samples unfixed and in a hydrated environment at high resolution. This opens the possibility to investigate biological mechanisms temporally in a heretofore unattainable resolution. We have used AFM to investigate: (1) fundamental issues in cell biology (secretion) and, (2) the pathological basis of a human thrombotic disease, the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). These studies have incorporated the imaging of live cells at nanometer resolution, leading to discovery of the "porosome," the universal secretory portal in cells, and a molecular understanding of membrane fusion from imaging the interaction and assembly of proteins between opposing lipid membranes. Similarly, the development of an in vitro simulacrum for investigating the molecular interactions between proteins and lipids has helped define an etiological explanation for APS. The prime importance of AFM in the success of these investigations will be presented in this manuscript, as well as a discussion of the limitations of this technique for the study of biomedical samples.
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- Douglas J Taatjes
- Department of Pathology and Microscopy Imaging Center, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Hou X, Lewis KT, Wu Q, Wang S, Chen X, Flack A, Mao G, Taatjes DJ, Sun F, Jena BP. Proteome of the porosome complex in human airway epithelia: interaction with the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). J Proteomics 2013; 96:82-91. [PMID: 24220302 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.10.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2013] [Revised: 10/20/2013] [Accepted: 10/31/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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UNLABELLED The surface of the airways is coated with a thin film of mucus composed primarily of mucin, which is under continuous motion via ciliary action. Mucin not only serves to lubricate the airways epithelia, but also functions as a trap for foreign particles and pathogens, thereby assisting in keeping the airways clean and free of particulate matter and infections. Altered mucin secretion especially increased mucin viscosity, results in mucin stagnation due to the inability of the cilia to propel them, leading to infections and diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). Since porosomes have been demonstrated to be the secretory portals at the cell plasma membrane in cells, their presence, structure, and composition in the mucin-secreting human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3 expressing CF transmembrane receptor (CFTR), were investigated. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) of Calu-3 cells demonstrates the presence of approximately 100nm in diameter porosome openings at the plasma membrane surface. Electron microscopy confirms the AFM results, and tandem mass spectrometry and immunoanalysis performed on isolated Calu-3 porosomes, reveal the association of CFTR with the porosome complex. These new findings will facilitate understanding of CFTR-porosome interactions influencing mucous secretion, and provide critical insights into the etiology of CF disease. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE In the present study, the porosome proteome in human airway epithelia has been determined. The interaction between the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and the porosome complex in the human airway epithelia is further demonstrated. The possible regulation by CFTR on the quality of mucus secretion via the porosome complex at the cell plasma membrane is hypothesized. These new findings will facilitate understanding of CFTR-porosome interactions influencing mucous secretion, and provide critical insights into the etiology of CF disease.
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- Xia Hou
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microscopy Imaging Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, MI 48202, USA.
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Kovari LC, Brunzelle JS, Lewis KT, Cho WJ, Lee JS, Taatjes DJ, Jena BP. X-ray solution structure of the native neuronal porosome-synaptic vesicle complex: Implication in neurotransmitter release. Micron 2013; 56:37-43. [PMID: 24176623 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2013.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2013] [Revised: 09/29/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nanoportals at the cell plasma membrane called porosomes, mediate secretion from cells. In neurons porosomes are 15 nm cup-shaped lipoprotein structure composed of nearly 40 proteins. The size and complexity of the porosome has precluded determination of its atomic structure. Here we report at nanometer resolution the native 3D structure of the neuronal porosome-synaptic vesicle complex within isolated nerve terminals using small-angle X-ray solution scattering. In addition to furthering our understanding of the porosome structure, results from the study suggests the molecular mechanism involved in neurotransmitter release at the nerve terminal.
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- Ladislau C Kovari
- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Detroit, MI, USA
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'It seems terribly wasteful that, during the release of hormones and neurotransmitters from a cell, the membrane of a vesicle should merge with the plasma membrane to be retrieved for recycling only seconds or minutes later.' - Erwin Neher, Nature 1993;363:497-498. This insightful statement so appropriately put, clearly reflected on the perception that secretory vesicles completely merge at the cell plasma membrane, failing to justify the generation of partially empty secretory vesicles in cells following secretion. A rational cellular mechanism would employ the transient fusion of secretory vesicles at the cell plasma membrane without compromising vesicle integrity, combined with vesicle retrieval following partial discharge of contents, to generate such partially empty vesicles following secretion. This hypothesis was finally confirmed with the serendipitous discovery of the porosome almost 16 years ago. The porosome has been demonstrated to be the universal secretory portal in cells and is present at the cell plasma membrane. In the past decade, the composition of the porosome, its dynamics, its structure at nanometer resolution in realtime using atomic force and electron microscopy, and its functional reconstitution into artificial lipid membrane, has resulted in a paradigm shift and a molecular understanding of the secretory process in cells. A brief background on porosome discovery, and our current understanding of its structure and function is summarized in this Minireview.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 5245 Scott Hall, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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Lee JS, Jeremic A, Shin L, Cho WJ, Chen X, Jena BP. Neuronal porosome proteome: Molecular dynamics and architecture. J Proteomics 2012; 75:3952-62. [PMID: 22659300 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Revised: 05/03/2012] [Accepted: 05/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Porosomes are the universal secretory portals at the cell plasma membrane, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to expel intravesicular contents to the outside during cell secretion. In the past decade, the neuronal porosome complex, a 10-15nm cup-shaped lipoprotein structure has been isolated, its partial composition and 3D contour map determined, and it has been functionally reconstituted into artificial lipid membrane. Here we further determine the composition of the neuronal porosome proteome using immunoisolation and gel filtration chromatography, followed by tandem mass spectrometry. Results from the study demonstrate nearly 40 proteins to constitute the neuronal porosome proteome. Furthermore, interaction of proteins within the porosome and their resulting arrangement is predicted. The association and dissociation of proteins at the porosome following stimulation of cell secretion demonstrate the dynamic nature of the organelle.
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- Jin-Sook Lee
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Wang S, Lee JS, Bishop N, Jeremic A, Cho WJ, Chen X, Mao G, Taatjes DJ, Jena BP. 3D organization and function of the cell: Golgi budding and vesicle biogenesis to docking at the porosome complex. Histochem Cell Biol 2012; 137:703-18. [PMID: 22527693 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-012-0948-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/29/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Insights into the three-dimensional (3D) organization and function of intracellular structures at nanometer resolution, holds the key to our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of cellular structure-function. Besides this fundamental understanding of the cell at the molecular level, such insights hold great promise in identifying the disease processes by their altered molecular profiles, and help determine precise therapeutic treatments. To achieve this objective, previous studies have employed electron microscopy (EM) tomography with reasonable success. However, a major hurdle in the use of EM tomography is the tedious procedures involved in fixing, high-pressure freezing, staining, serial sectioning, imaging, and finally compiling the EM images to obtain a 3D profile of sub-cellular structures. In contrast, the resolution limit of EM tomography is several nanometers, as compared to just a single or even sub-nanometer using the atomic force microscope (AFM). Although AFM has been hugely successful in 3D imaging studies at nanometer resolution and in real time involving isolated live cellular and isolated organelles, it has had limited success in similar studies involving 3D imaging at nm resolution of intracellular structure-function in situ. In the current study, using both AFM and EM on aldehyde-fixed and semi-dry mouse pancreatic acinar cells, new insights on a number of intracellular structure-function relationships and interactions were achieved. Golgi complexes, some exhibiting vesicles in the process of budding were observed, and small vesicles were caught in the act of fusing with larger vesicles, possibly representing either secretory vesicle biogenesis or vesicle refilling following discharge, or both. These results demonstrate the power and scope of the combined engagement of EM and AFM imaging of fixed semi-dry cells, capable of providing a wealth of new information on cellular structure-function and interactions.
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- Sunxi Wang
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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Hypokinetic stress and neuronal porosome complex in the rat brain: the electron microscopic study. Micron 2012; 43:948-53. [PMID: 22571877 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2012.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2012] [Revised: 03/12/2012] [Accepted: 03/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Porosomes are the universal secretory machinery in cells, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release intravesicular contents to the outside of the cell during cell secretion. Studies using atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, electron density and 3D contour mapping, provided rich nanoscale information on the structure and assembly of proteins within the neuronal porosome complex in normal brain. However it remains uncertain whether pathological conditions that alter process of neurotransmission, provoke alterations in the porosome structure also. To determine if porosomes are altered in disease states, the current study was undertaken for first time using high resolution electron microscope. One of pathologies that produce subtle alteration at the presynaptic terminals has been demonstrated to be hypokinetic stress. The central nucleus of amygdale is the brain region, where such alterations are mostly expressed. We have examined the width and depth of the neuronal porosome complex and their alterations provoked by chronic hypokinetic stress in above mentioned limbic region. Specifically, we have demonstrated that despite alterations in the presynaptic terminals and synaptic transmission provoked by this pathological condition in this region, the final step/structure in neurosecretion--the porosome--remains unaffected: the morphometric analysis of the depth and diameter of this cup-shaped structure at the presynaptic membrane point out to the heterogeneity of porosome dimensions, but with unchanged fluctuation in norm and pathology.
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Okuneva VG, Japaridze NJ, Kotaria NT, Zhvania MG. Neuronal porosome in the rat and cat brain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990519x12010063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cells synthesize and store within membranous sacs products such as hormones, growth factors, neurotransmitters, or digestive enzymes, for release on demand. As recently as just 15 years ago, it was believed that during cell secretion, membrane-bound secretory vesicles completely merge at the cell plasma membrane resulting in the diffusion of intravesicular contents to the cell exterior and the compensatory retrieval of the excess membrane by endocytosis. This explanation, however, failed to explain the generation of partially empty vesicles observed in electron micrographs following secretion. Logically therefore, in a 1993 News and Views article in the journal Nature, Prof. Erwin Neher wrote "It seems terribly wasteful that, during the release of hormones and neurotransmitters from a cell, the membrane of a vesicle should merge with the plasma membrane to be retrieved for recycling only seconds or minutes later." The discovery of permanent secretory portals or nanomachines at the cell plasma membrane called POROSOMES, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release intravesicular contents to the cell exterior, has finally resolved this conundrum. Following this discovery, the composition of the porosome, its structure and dynamics visualized with high-resolution imaging techniques atomic force and electron microscopy, and its functional reconstitution into artificial lipid membrane have provided a molecular understanding of cell secretion. In agreement, it has been demonstrated that "secretory granules are recaptured largely intact after stimulated exocytosis in cultured endocrine cells" (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:2070-2075, 2003); that "single synaptic vesicles fuse transiently and successively without loss of identity" (Nature 423:643-647, 2003); and that "zymogen granule exocytosis is characterized by long fusion pore openings and preservation of vesicle lipid identity" (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:6774-6779, 2004). It made no sense all these years to argue that mammalian cells possess an "all or none" mechanism of cell secretion resulting from complete vesicle merger at the cell plasma membrane, when even single-cell organisms have developed specialized and sophisticated secretory machinery, such as the secretion apparatus of Toxoplasma gondii, contractile vacuoles in paramecium, and different types of secretory structures in bacteria. The discovery of the porosome and its functional reconstitution in artificial lipid membrane, and an understanding of its morphology, composition, and dynamics, has resulted in a paradigm shift in our understanding of the secretory process in cells.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
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Porosomes are proposed to be the universal secretory machinery of the cell plasma membrane, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to expel their contents to the extracellular space during cell secretion. In neurons, porosomes are manifested as cup-shaped lipoprotein structures in the presynaptic membrane, 12-17 nm in diameter and possessing a central plug. Hair cells of hearing and balance secrete transmitter from synaptic vesicles in sensory signal transduction, but it has not previously been demonstrated that these mechanosensory cells possess porosome structures that could participate in the secretory process. In the current study, we provide, for the first time, evidence obtained using transmission electron microscopy that porosome structures indeed exist in the hair cell, suggesting a mechanism of hair-cell transmitter secretion markedly different from that of the exocytotic process currently proposed.
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Porosomes are the universal secretory machinery of the cell plasma membrane, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse to expel intravesicular contents to the environment during cell secretion. In neurons, 12- to 17-nm cup-shaped lipoprotein structures possessing a central plug are present at the presynaptic membrane, where 40-50 nm in diameter synaptic vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release neurotransmitters. The neuronal porosome complex has been isolated, its composition determined and it has been both structurally and functionally reconstituted in artificial lipid membranes. Earlier studies using AFM (atomic force microscopy), EM (electron microscopy), electron density and 3D contour mapping provide the structure and assembly of proteins within the neuronal porosome complex at the nanoscale level. A set of eight protein units lining the neuronal porosome cup is present, each connected via spoke-like elements to a central plug, hypothesized for the rapid opening and closing of the structure to the outside. In the present study, ultrahigh-resolution imaging of the presynaptic membrane of isolated synaptosome preparations demonstrate, for the first time, the presence of neuronal porosomes in both their open and close conformations. The results suggests that the central plug is retracted into the porosome cup in its open conformation and pushed outward to seal the porosome opening, supporting the hypothesis that it operates as the opening-closing device of the complex.
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Jena BP. Functional organization of the porosome complex and associated structures facilitating cellular secretion. Physiology (Bethesda) 2010; 24:367-76. [PMID: 19996367 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00021.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Porosomes, the universal secretory machinery at the cell plasma membrane, are cup-shaped supramolecular lipoprotein structures, where membrane-bound vesicles transiently dock and fuse to release intravesicular contents during cell secretion. In this review, the discovery of the porosome and its structure, dynamics, composition, and functional reconstitution are outlined. Furthermore, the architecture of porosome-like structures such as the "canaliculi system" in human platelets and various associated structures such as the T-bars at the Drosophila synapse or the "beams," "ribs," and "pegs" at the frog neuromuscular junction, each organized to facilitate a certain specialized secretory activity, are briefly discussed.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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Secretory vesicles transiently dock and fuse at the porosome to discharge contents during cell secretion. Cell Biol Int 2009; 34:3-12. [PMID: 20017733 DOI: 10.1042/cbi20090161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In contrast with the observation in electron micrographs of partially empty vesicles in cells following secretion, it has been believed since the 1950s that during cell secretion, secretory vesicles completely merge at the cell plasma membrane, resulting in the diffusion of intravesicular contents to the cell exterior and the compensatory retrieval of the excess membrane by endocytosis. In the interim, a large body of work has been published arguing both for and against the complete merger of secretory vesicle membrane at the cell plasma membrane during secretion. The only definitive determination of the mechanism of cell secretion remained in its direct observation at nanometre resolution in live cells. In the past decade, this finally became a reality through the power and scope of the atomic force microscope, which has made it possible to resolve a major conundrum in cell biology. This paradigm shift in our understanding of cell secretion is briefly outlined here.
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Cho WJ, Shin L, Ren G, Jena BP. Structure of membrane-associated neuronal SNARE complex: implication in neurotransmitter release. J Cell Mol Med 2009; 13:4161-5. [PMID: 19737333 PMCID: PMC4496122 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00895.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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To enable fusion between biological membranes, t-SNAREs and v-SNARE present in opposing bilayers, interact and assemble in a circular configuration forming ring-complexes, which establish continuity between the opposing membranes, in presence of calcium ions. The size of a t-/v-SNARE ring complex is dictated by the curvature of the opposing membrane. Hence smaller vesicles form small SNARE-ring complexes, as opposed to large vesicles. Neuronal communication depends on the fusion of 40–50 nm in diameter membrane-bound synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitters at the nerve terminal. At the presynaptic membrane, 12–17 nm in diameter cup-shaped neuronal porosomes are present where synaptic vesicles transiently dock and fuse. Studies demonstrate the presence of SNAREs at the porosome base. Atomic force microscopy (AFM), electron microscopy (EM), and electron density measurement studies demonstrate that at the porosome base, where synaptic vesicles dock and transiently fuse, proteins, possibly comprised of t-SNAREs, are found assembled in a ring conformation. To further determine the structure and arrangement of the neuronal t-/v-SNARE complex, 50 nm t-and v-SNARE proteoliposomes were mixed, allowing t-SNARE-vesicles to interact with v-SNARE vesicles, followed by detergent solubilization and imaging of the resultant t-/v-SNARE complexes formed using both AFM and EM. Our results demonstrate formation of 6–7 nm membrane-directed self-assembled t-/v-SNARE ring complexes, similar to, but twice as large as the ring structures present at the base of neuronal porosomes. The smaller SNARE ring at the porosome base may reflect the 3–4 nm base diameter, where 40–50 nm in diameter v-SNARE-associated synaptic vesicle transiently dock and fuse to release neurotransmitters.
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- Won Jin Cho
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Porosomes are supramolecular, cup-shaped lipoprotein structures at the cell plasma membrane, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles dock and fuse to release intravesicular contents to the outside during cell secretion. The porosome opening to the outside ranges from 150 nm in diameter in acinar cells of the exocrine pancreas to 12 nm in neurons. In the past decade, the composition of the porosome, its structure and dynamics at nanometer resolution in real time, and its functional reconstitution into an artificial lipid membrane have been described. Discovery of the universal secretory machinery in cells, the porosome, came as no surprise since porosome-like "canaliculi" structures for secretion from human platelets, the secretory machinery in single-cell organisms like the secretion apparatus in bacteria and Toxoplasma gondii, and the contractile vacuole in paramecium have been demonstrated. In this review, the discovery of the porosome complex and the molecular mechanism of its function and how this information provides a new understanding of cell secretion are discussed.
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- Bhanu P Jena
- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.
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