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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 78, Issue 1 49-65, Copyright © 1985 by Company of Biologists

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Protein secretion in Tetrahymena thermophila: characterization of the secretory mutant strain SB281

NJ Maihle and BH Satir

The ciliated protozoon Tetrahymena thermophila contains membrane-bounded secretory organelles termed mucocysts, the release of which has previously been characterized ultrastructurally as a model system for the events occurring during membrane fusion and protein secretion. Recently, a series of secretory mutant strains of Tetrahymena has been isolated following mutagenesis of a parental wild-type strain designated SB210. In this study, the correlates of non-release in one unique mutant strain of this series, designated SB281, are described. SB281 appears to express a diminished (undetectable) level of the major 34000 Mr proteinaceous secretory product of Tetrahymena, as determined by Western immunoblot analysis and indirect immunofluorescence labelling. Thin-section electron-microscopic studies of these cells reveal that they possess no docked or free mature mucocysts. In addition, freeze-fracture electron microscopy demonstrates that an intramembrane particle array termed the rosette, present in the plasma membrane of wild-type cells above sites of docked mucocysts, is absent in the plasma membrane of mutant SB281 cells. A morphometric analysis of intramembrane particles in the plasma membrane of both wild-type and mutant cells indicates that both strains have a similar intramembrane particle density in both leaflets of the the plasma membrane. Although assembled rosettes are missing in the plasma membrane of mutant cells, a 15 nm intramembrane particle size class does exist in the plasma membrane of the mutant, but this size class is significantly reduced in number relative to wild-type.


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