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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 77, Issue 1 1-17, Copyright © 1985 by Company of Biologists

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Synchronous exocytosis in Paramecium cells. VI. Ultrastructural analysis of membrane resealing and retrieval

H Plattner, R Pape, B Haacke, K Olbricht, C Westphal and H Kersken

After the synchronous induction of exocytosis of secretory organelles (trichocysts) in Paramecium tetraurelia cells the process of membrane resealing and retrieval could be followed under synchronous conditions. The characteristic aggregates of membrane intercalated particles (MIPs) contained within the freeze-fractured cell membrane (rings and rosettes) and trichocyst membranes (annulus MIPs), in addition to collar striations on the top of trichocyst membranes, served as endogenous ultrastructural markers. This allowed us to follow the re-arrangement of membrane constituents during and after exocytosis with high temporal and spatial precision. Membrane specificity is maintained to a considerable extent (approximately 99.5%), as judged from the rare occurrence of aberrant resealing (according to freeze-fracture data) and from the rather minute shift of glycocalyx components (according to electron staining experiments) during normal membrane resealing. Coated pits are not involved in membrane retrieval (155 ghosts analysed); since the membrane regions involved in exocytotic fusion are backed by apposed materials, probably proteins, this may restrain membrane constituents from intermixing. Another factor for maintaining membrane specificity is the fact that resealing of the exocytotic opening occurs much more rapidly than in most other systems. The retrieval operates with a half-life of 3 (strain 7S) to 9 min (K401); the involvement of cortical microtubules in the retrieval can be largely excluded, since only two microtubules (of unidentified origin) were seen to approach ghost structures in 4074 cases analysed during this period of intense ghost retrieval. Phalloidin microinjected at a dose that blocked all cytoplasmic streaming (before synchronous exocytosis was induced) did not abolish membrane resealing and retrieval, which, therefore, may be passive processes.


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