Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 579, Issue 7, Pages 1602-1606Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.01.074
Keywords
total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy; insulin exocytosis; sulfonylurea receptor; fusion; syntaxin
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK-52771, DK57671] Funding Source: Medline
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To explore how the sulfonylurea receptor (SUR1) is involved in docking and fusion of insulin granules, dynamic motion of single insulin secretory granules near the plasma membrane was examined in SUR1 knock-out (Sur1KO) beta-cells by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Sur1KO beta-cells exhibited a marked reduction in the number of fusion events from previously docked granules. However, the number of docked granules declined during stimulation as a consequence of the release of docked granules into the cytoplasm vs. fusion with the plasma membrane. Thus, the impaired docking and fusion results in decreased insulin exocytosis from Sur1KO beta-cells. (c) 2005 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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