title: Retention and stimulus-dependent recycling of dense core vesicle content in neuroendocrine cells.
abstract: We have used fluorescence imaging of individual exocytic events in combination with immunogold electron microscopy and FM1-43 photoconversion to study the stimulus-dependent recycling of dense core vesicle content in isolated rat pituitary lactotrophs. Secretory stimulation with high external [K(+)] resulted in 100 exocytic sites per cell that were labeled by extracellular antibodies against the peptide hormone prolactin. Morphological analysis demonstrated that the prolactin was retained and internalized in intact dense cores. Vesicles containing non-secreted, internalized prolactin did not colocalize with DiI-LDL that had been chased into lysosomes but did transiently colocalize with internalized transferrin. The recycling vesicles also trafficked through a syntaxin 6-positive compartment but not the TGN38-positive trans-Golgi. Recycling vesicles, which returned to the cell surface in a slow basal manner, could also be stimulated to undergo exocytosis with a high release probability during subsequent exocytic stimulation with external K(+). These studies suggest a functional role for recycling vesicles that retain prolactin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA.
authors.forename: Roslyn A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Ruth L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Overlease
authors.forename: Janet L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lieber
authors.forename: Joseph K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Angleson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005089:Exocytosis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D011188:Potassium / Q000494:pharmacology; D011388:Prolactin / Q000378:metabolism; D050765:Qa-SNARE Proteins; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D022142:Secretory Vesicles / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014168:Transferrin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D050765:Qa-SNARE Proteins; C513045:Tgoln2 protein, rat; D014168:Transferrin; D011388:Prolactin; D011188:Potassium