title: Animal cell lysosomes rapidly exchange membrane proteins.
abstract: The lysosome has been chosen as a model to study the exchange of native membrane proteins within an organelle population. Heterologous lysosomes were brought together by vesicular stomatitis virus-mediated cell fusion. The distribution of lysosomal membrane protein was visualized by indirect immunofluorescence using species-specific monoclonal antibody. LAMP-2, a mouse lysosomal membrane protein, and HLAMP-B, a human lysosomal membrane protein, were found to transfer to Chinese hamster ovary cell sucrosomes (sucrose-swollen lysosomes). This transfer occurred in the presence of cycloheximide. The exchange of LAMP-2 and LIMP I, a rat lysosomal membrane protein, was observed between native lysosomes in a mouse (3T3)-rat (normal rat kidney) cell fusion. Extensive transfer/exchange was observed within 1.5-2 hr postfusion, which is consistent with the kinetics of endocytic content exchange between lysosomes. Both membrane protein and content transfer between lysosomes were inhibited by nocodazole, a disrupter of microtubules, as was endocytic delivery to sucrose-swollen lysosomes. In the presence of nocodazole, tubular lysosomes disappeared. Both tubular lysosomes and microtubules may be important for the transfer/exchange. The interspecies cell fusion/monoclonal antibody approach developed here should be readily applicable to determining if membrane protein exchange is a property of other organelles such as Golgi apparatus and mitochondria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061.
authors.forename: Y P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Storrie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015703:Antigens, CD; D001562:Benzimidazoles / Q000494:pharmacology; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002459:Cell Fusion; D002460:Cell Line; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000502:physiology*; D051907:Lysosomal Membrane Proteins; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000502:physiology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D015739:Nocodazole; D013395:Sucrose / Q000378:metabolism; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D001562:Benzimidazoles; D051907:Lysosomal Membrane Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D013395:Sucrose; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase; D015739:Nocodazole