Journal
BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1151, Issue -, Pages 46-54Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.012
Keywords
dopamine; membrane phospholipid; exocytosis; plasticity; PC12 cell
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB000352-08A1] Funding Source: Medline
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Membrane composition serves to identify intracellular compartments, signal cell death, as well as to alter a cell's electrical and physical properties. Here we use amperometry to show that supplementation with the phospholipids phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), sphingomyelin (SM), and phosphatidylserine (PS) can alter several aspects of exocytosis. Changes in the amperometric peak shape derived from individual exocytosing vesicles reveal that PC slows expulsion of neurotransmitter while PE accelerates expulsion of neurotransmitter. Amperometry data reveal a reduced amount of catecholarnine released per event from PC-treated cells while electron micrographs indicate the vesicles in these cells are 50%largerthan controls, thus providing evidence of pharmacological changes in vesicle concentration. Addition of SM appears to affect the rate of fusion pore expansion, indicated by slowerpeak rise times, but does not affect decay times or quantal size. Addition of PS results in a 1.7-fold increase in the number of events elicited by high-K+ depolarization. Electron micrographs of PS-treated cells suggest that increased vesicle recruitment underlies enhanced secretion. We did not observe any effect of phosphatidylinositol (PI) treatment. Together these data suggest that differences in membrane composition affect exocytosis and might be involved in mechanisms of cell function controlling the dynamics of communication via exocytosis. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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