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A proton pumping pyrophosphatase in the Golgi apparatus and plasma membrane vesicles of Trypanosoma cruzi.

The proton pumping pyrophosphatase (H(+)-PPase) is an enzyme that has been identified in membranes of plant vacuoles, in the Golgi complex of plants and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and more recently in acidocalcisomes of different trypanosomatids and apicomplexan parasites. Immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy studies using antibodies against the plant enzyme also suggested a plasma membrane localization in different stages of Trypanosoma cruzi. In this report we provide immunogold electron microscopy evidence of the presence of the H(+)-PPase in the Golgi complex and plasma membrane of epimastigotes of T. cruzi. Pyrophosphate promoted acidification of plasma membrane vesicles as determined using acridine orange. This activity was stimulated by K(+) ions, inhibited by the pyrophosphate analogs imidodiphosphate (IDP) and aminomethylenediphosphonate (AMDP) by KF, NaF and DCCD, and it had different responses to ions and inhibitors as compared with the activity present in acidocalcisomes. Surface localization of the H(+)-PPase was confirmed by experiments using biotinylation of cell surface proteins and immunoprecipitation with antibodies against H(+)-PPase. Taken together, these results are consistent with the presence of a functional H(+)-PPase in the plasma membrane of these parasites.

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[Asymmetrical distribution of clathrin in the Golgi apparatus of polypeptide-secreting cells].

Using an antibody revealed by the protein A-gold technique, we have studied the distribution of clathrin antigenic sites in the Golgi area of pancreatic B-cells. Golgi compartments showing an immunolabelling comprised extensive segments of cisternae, typical coated vesicles, dilated extremities of cisternae with condensing secretory material, and newly formed secretory granules. Most of the labelled membranes were observed at the trans Golgi pole while little immunoreactivity was found on the cis pole.

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Electron microscopy of the rabbit pineal organ in vitro. Evidence of norepinephrine-stimulated secretory activity of the Golgi apparatus.

The results presented in this study show that the rabbit pineal organ cultured in vitro retained its in vivo fine structure for at least eight days. However, the Golgi complex in the light pinealocytes stopped forming dense core vesicles while vesicle-crowned ribbons increased in number. After addition of norepinephrine to the culture medium, the Golgi complex once more began the production of dense core vessicles. Terminals of light pinealocytic processes then often contained Golgi dense core vesicles in close contact with the cell membrane, suggesting the release of the vesicular content into the intercellular and perivascular spaces. A close topographical relationship between Golgi dense core vesicles and vesicle-crowned ribbons was observed.

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