A Specific Interaction in Vitro Between Pancreatic Zymogen Granules and Plasma Membranes: Stimulation by G-protein Activators but Not by Ca2+

Overview

Journal J Cell Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 1989 Dec 1

PMID 2512300

Citations 25

Authors

C Y Nadin

J Rogers

S Tomlinson

J M Edwardson

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Abstract

The molecular details of the final step in the process of regulated exocytosis, the fusion of the membrane of the secretory granule with the plasma membrane, are at present obscure. As a first step in an investigation of this membrane fusion event, we have developed a cell-free assay for the interaction between pancreatic zymogen granules and plasma membranes. We show here that plasma membranes are able to trigger the release of the granule contents, and that this effect is specific to pancreatic membranes, involves membrane fusion, requires membrane proteins, and is stimulated by activators of G-proteins but not by Ca2+. The assay is simple, reliable, and rapid, and should permit the identification of proteins that are involved in the exocytotic fusion event.

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