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The migrasome is a newly discovered, migration-dependent membrane-bound cellular organelle. It functions in the active release of intracellular contents into the external environment and in cell-cell communications. Migrasomes have characteristic morphological features compared with intracellular organelles and extracellular vesicles. This unit describes methods for visualizing migrasomes by fluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy.
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- Yang Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Boyles JK, Zoellner CD, Anderson LJ, Kosik LM, Pitas RE, Weisgraber KH, Hui DY, Mahley RW, Gebicke-Haerter PJ, Ignatius MJ. A role for apolipoprotein E, apolipoprotein A-I, and low density lipoprotein receptors in cholesterol transport during regeneration and remyelination of the rat sciatic nerve. J Clin Invest 1989; 83:1015-31. [PMID: 2493483 PMCID: PMC303779 DOI: 10.1172/jci113943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 398] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Recent work has demonstrated that apo E secretion and accumulation increase in the regenerating peripheral nerve. The fact that apoE, in conjunction with apoA-I and LDL receptors, participates in a well-established lipid transfer system raised the possibility that apoE is also involved in lipid transport in the injured nerve. In the present study of the crushed rat sciatic nerve, a combination of techniques was used to trace the cellular associations of apoE, apoA-I, and the LDL receptor during nerve repair and to determine the distribution of lipid at each stage. After a crush injury, as axons died and Schwann cells reabsorbed myelin, resident and monocyte-derived macrophages produced large quantities of apoE distal to the injury site. As axons regenerated in the first week, their tips contained a high concentration of LDL receptors. After axon regeneration, apoE and apoA-I began to accumulate distal to the injury site and macrophages became increasingly cholesterol-loaded. As remyelination began in the second and third weeks after injury, Schwann cells exhausted their cholesterol stores, then displayed increased LDL receptors. Depletion of macrophage cholesterol stores followed over the next several weeks. During this stage of regeneration, apoE and apoA-I were present in the extracellular matrix as components of cholesterol-rich lipoproteins. Our results demonstrate that the regenerating peripheral nerve possesses the components of a cholesterol transfer mechanism, and the sequence of events suggests that this mechanism supplies the cholesterol required for rapid membrane biogenesis during axon regeneration and remyelination.
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- J K Boyles
- Gladstone Foundation Laboratories for Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94140-0608
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Reaven E, Boyles J, Spicher M, Azhar S. Evidence for surface entrapment of cholesterol-rich lipoproteins in luteinized ovary. ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (DALLAS, TEX.) 1988; 8:298-309. [PMID: 3370025 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.8.3.298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Previous studies showed that perfused 125I-labeled low and high density lipoproteins (LDL, HDL) have affinity for specialized microvillar regions of luteal cells in hormone-primed, luteinized rat ovaries. In the current report, we re-examined the interaction of cholesterol-rich lipoproteins with these specialized plasma membrane regions using native lipoproteins visualized as discrete particles by standard electron microscopic techniques. In ovaries perfused with the various lipoproteins, spherical particles (varying in size from 12 to 28 nm depending on the particle used) were found over the surfaces of all luteal cells and filling up extensive "channel" space formed by the apposed plasma membranes of adjacent microvilli or cytoplasmic surfaces. Only 30% of these tissue-associated particles were removable after prolonged washing with perfused media or heparin. Few intact particles were found inside the cells, despite the fact that the lipoproteins induced a substantial hormone response by the ovary. To determine the total protein internalized by cells during the course of the experiments, parallel biochemical experiments were carried out with nonreleasable (14C-sucrose-coupled) human LDL. Of the total bound 14C-sucrose LDL, only 8.5% was degraded (trichloroacetic acid-soluble) and presumed internalized by the cells. Thus, while large numbers of cholesterol-rich lipoprotein particles interact with the luteal cell surface in specialized microvillar channels and elicit a progesterone response, relatively few intact lipoprotein particles appear to enter the cells to be degraded. We speculate that in the luteinized ovary, a large majority of the lipoprotein-cholesterol transfer occurs at the surface of the luteal cells, and that the membranes of the microvillar channels are involved in this process.
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- E Reaven
- Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Williams ML, Mommaas-Kienhuis AM, Rutherford SL, Grayson S, Vermeer BJ, Elias PM. Free sterol metabolism and low density lipoprotein receptor expression as differentiation markers of cultured human keratinocytes. J Cell Physiol 1987; 132:428-40. [PMID: 2443512 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041320305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In contrast to most tissues, epidermis and its derivatives appear to lack low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors and exhibit sterologenesis rates unaffected by circulating lipoprotein (LP) cholesterol content. Since LDL receptors have been demonstrated in both cultured squamous cell carcinoma cells and human foreskin keratinocytes, when maintained in low-calcium media, LDL receptor expression may be related to keratinocyte differentiation. We compared receptor binding and internalization of LDL-gold in normal keratinocytes at different stages of growth at physiological calcium concentrations (early, 3-5 days; preconfluent, 6-10 days; postconfluent, 12-17 days), and correlated receptor expression with sterologenesis in LP-replete vs.-depleted media. Whereas in early cultures about 60% of sterologenesis was LP dependent, this fraction declined in preconfluent and confluent cultures despite continued culture growth and little decline in total sterologenesis. Accordingly, LDL receptors were most evident in early cultures, declining in preconfluent cultures in parallel with the decrease in LP-dependent sterol synthesis. In contrast, sterologenesis in human foreskin fibroblasts was profoundly influenced by exogenous LP at all stages of confluence; total and LP-dependent sterologenesis declined in parallel with growth cessation. These studies represent the first demonstration that normal keratinocytes express functional LDL receptors at physiologic calcium concentrations. Moreover, they demonstrate that LDL receptor expression in keratinocytes, in contrast to fibroblasts, can only in part be attributed to growth requirements. Instead, loss of LDL receptor expression serves as a distinctive marker of keratinocyte differentiation and may reflect the specific functional requirements of the epidermis in vivo.
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- M L Williams
- Dermatology Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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Vermeer BJ. Hyperlipoproteinaemia and xanthomatosis as a model of cholesterol ester accumulation. J Dermatol 1986; 13:2-9. [PMID: 3522689 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1986.tb02892.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Vermeer BJ, Wijsman MC, Mommaas-Kienhuis AM, Ponec M. Binding and internalization of low-density lipoproteins in SCC25 cells and SV40 transformed keratinocytes. A morphologic study. J Invest Dermatol 1986; 86:195-200. [PMID: 2427600 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12284267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Binding of low-density lipoproteins (LDL) to the plasma membrane and internalization of low-density lipoprotein receptor complexes were investigated in an epithelial tumor cell derived from the tongue (SCC25) and in SV40-transformed keratinocytes (SVK14 cells). For light microscopic studies an immunofluorescence technique with antiapoprotein B as well as conjugation procedure by which a fluorochrome 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-indocarbocyanide (DIL) was conjugated with LDL (LDL-DIL) was used. Binding of LDL to the plasma membrane at 4 degrees C was observed in most SCC25 cells but not in SVK14 cells. The internalization of LDL-DIL was absent in SVK14 cells and was excessive in SCC25 cells. In SCC25 cells, internalization of the LDL-DIL particles was heterogeneously distributed over various cells. When a pulse-chase experiment was performed with LDL-DIL, less LDL was internalized into the SCC25 cells in comparison with a continuous label experiment. For the ultrastructural studies LDL conjugated with colloidal gold was used. In the binding experiments at 4 degrees C most LDL-gold particles were attached to the plasma membrane outside coated pits. During internalization experiments with LDL-gold particles it was observed that within 5-15 min at 37 degrees C several LDL-gold particles were seen in electron-dense structures near the plasma membrane. The electron-dense structures containing LDL-gold, as observed after an internalization period of 5-15 min, may represent the first endosomal compartment as described for transferrin receptors in A431 cells. After a period of 30 min at 37 degrees C the LDL-gold particles were observed in electron-lucent vesicles (multivesicular bodies) and dense bodies. However coated vesicles containing LDL-gold particles were seen sporadically. It is concluded that the route of internalization of LDL into the SCC25 cells differs from that of other cell types. No internalization of LDL gold was found in SVK14 cells, thus, in this respect, the SVK14 cells resemble normal keratinocytes. The morphologic data are in good agreement with biochemical studies published earlier (Ponec M et al, J Invest Dermatol 83:436-440, 1984). Both investigations suggest that LDL receptor activity is modulated during the process of terminal differentiation.
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Guyton JR, Bocan TM, Schifani TA. Quantitative ultrastructural analysis of perifibrous lipid and its association with elastin in nonatherosclerotic human aorta. ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (DALLAS, TEX.) 1985; 5:644-52. [PMID: 4074197 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.5.6.644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Nonatherosclerotic areas in human arteries display an age-related accumulation of cholesteryl ester in the form of small, perifibrous lipid droplets in the deeper intimal layers. We treated human aortic specimens with an osmium-thiocarbohydrazide-osmium sequence en bloc after glutaraldehyde fixation in order to provide electron dense staining of neutral lipid for ultrastructural study. Neutral lipid was quantified in terms of area fractions on thin sections. Extracellular lipid, primarily in the form of small (less than 300 nm) droplets, accounted for 91% of the lipid found in the deep intimal region. Seventy-four percent of extracellular lipid appeared in droplets or aggregates that were demonstrated as adjacent to or within elastic fibers in the plane of section. The fraction of lipid adjacent to elastin in three dimensions is likely to be considerably higher than 74%. The results support the concept that an interaction between elastin or its associated components and lipids or lipoproteins may be important in extracellular lipid deposition in human arteries.
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Simionescu N, Simionescu M. Interactions of endogenous lipoproteins with capillary endothelium in spontaneously hyperlipoproteinemic rats. Microvasc Res 1985; 30:314-32. [PMID: 4088094 DOI: 10.1016/0026-2862(85)90063-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In spontaneously hyperlipoproteinemic old Sprague-Dawley rats, endogenous lipoproteins (LP) in the size range of 15 to 40 nm were directly visualized within the blood vessels due to specimen mordanting with tannic acid. LP morphometric analysis at the level of the endothelium of diaphragm capillaries revealed that particles of the dimensions of low-density lipoproteins, high-density lipoproteins (HDL1), and very low density lipoproteins occur in endothelial structures involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis coated pits-vesicles, endosomes, lysosomes) and transcytosis (plasmalemmal vesicles and transendothelial channels). No such particles could be detected in the intercellular junctions. Intravenously injected cationized ferritin (CF) of pI 8.4 bound uniformly to LP forming an CF-LP complex. Examined at 5, 20, and 60 min after CF administration, the CF-LP complex was found to be taken up by endothelium only by endocytosis (adsorptive via coated pits-vesicles, and fluid phase through a fraction of plasmalemmal vesicles). CF-LP complexes are progressively accumulated within lysosomes. These findings reveal the importance of the net surface charge of macromolecular complexes for their intracellular sorting and fate.
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Ponec M, Havekes L, Kempenaar J, Lavrijsen S, Wijsman M, Boonstra J, Vermeer BJ. Calcium-mediated regulation of the low density lipoprotein receptor and intracellular cholesterol synthesis in human epidermal keratinocytes. J Cell Physiol 1985; 125:98-106. [PMID: 2413059 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041250113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Unlike cells cultured under physiological Ca2+ concentrations (1-2 mM), keratinocytes cultured in media containing Ca2+ in low concentrations (less than 0.1 mM) do not stratify. The latter cells also differ with respect to several features of the regulation of cholesterol synthesis. In keratinocytes cultured in medium containing high Ca2+ concentrations (1.6 mM) and fetal calf serum, the rate of cholesterol synthesis was 20-30 times higher than in keratinocytes exposed to a low Ca2+ concentration. The rate of cholesterol synthesis did not change when high-calcium cells were deprived of extracellular sources of cholesterol but increased (8-10 fold) in deprived low-calcium cells. Furthermore, the addition of low density lipoprotein (LDL) reduced cholesterol synthesis markedly in low-calcium cells but had no effect on high-calcium cells. Finally, in keratinocytes cultured at low calcium concentrations the association and degradation of 125I-LDL was 20-30 times higher than in keratinocytes cultured under high-calcium conditions. Switching of the cells from the low-calcium to the high-calcium medium resulted in the induction of terminal differentiation within 15 hours and was accompanied by increased cholesterol and protein synthesis, increased competence of cells to form cornified envelopes, and reduced association of 125I-LDL. A gradual increase of the extracellular Ca2+ concentration was accompanied by a corresponding increase of cholesterol and protein synthesis and a decrease of the response of intracellular cholesterol synthesis to changes in the extracellular concentrations of lipoprotein. Various morphological techniques showed virtually no binding and internalization of LDL by keratinocytes cultured at the high-calcium level, whereas both were observed at the low-calcium level. Once internalized, the LDL was delivered to dense bodies representing lysosomes. It is concluded that in human epidermal keratinocytes, the expression of the LDL receptor and the endogenous synthesis of cholesterol are regulated by the conditions determined by the differentiation stage of the cells.
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McDonald K. Osmium ferricyanide fixation improves microfilament preservation and membrane visualization in a variety of animal cell types. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1984; 86:107-18. [PMID: 6539826 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(84)80051-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Using a fixation formula which includes adding potassium ferricyanide (K3Fe(CN)6) to the osmium step and an en bloc aqueous uranyl acetate step before dehydration we have looked at cells from mammals, birds, amphibia, algae, and higher plants and we have collaborated in fixing cells of teleost fish. In every cell type except the algae and higher plants the final EM image was improved by the OsFeCN-uranium method. The most common improvement was an increase in the membrane contrast but more significantly, some cells show improved preservation of microfilaments. We conclude that the OsFeCN adds contrast to all classes of membrane and does not destroy microfilaments to the extent that osmium alone does. Adding uranyl acetate to the cells may protect delicate filamentous structures from collapse during dehydration and embedding. We have preliminary evidence in PtK1 cells that addition of tannic acid after OsFeCN may function in a similar manner. This method is recommended for any animal cell type where improved visualization of membranes and filaments is required.
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Takahashi K, Naito M. Lipid storage disease: Part I. Ultrastructure of xanthoma cells in various xanthomatous diseases. ACTA PATHOLOGICA JAPONICA 1983; 33:959-77. [PMID: 6650173 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1983.tb02142.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The fundamental ultrastructure of lipid storage in the xanthoma cells of various xanthomatous diseases, including familial hyperlipoproteinemia type IIa, III, and V, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, Wolman's disease, Tangier disease, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease, and normolipidemic cutaneous xanthomatosis, revealed lipid vacuoles, either membrane-bound or with no single unit membrane, cholesterol crystals, multivesicular or multilocular lipid bodies, myelin-like bodies, and ceroid granules (residual bodies). According to the presence or absence of such a single unit membrane and enzyme cytochemical demonstration of acid phosphatase activity, these lipid storage inclusions were largely classified into lysosomal and non-lysosomal ones; the former included membrane-bound lipid vacuoles, cholesterol crystals, multivesicular or multilocular lipid bodies, myelin-like bodies, and ceroid granules and the latter was lipid vacuoles with no limiting membrane. The ultrastructural relationship on formation of these lysosomal and non-lysosomal lipid storage inclusions and pathogenesis of the lipid storage in the xanthoma cells of the disorders were presented. As for the origin of the xanthoma cells, the majority of them were considered to be derived from macrophages in many of the disease; however, transformation of fibroblasts into xanthoma cells was confirmed in xanthomatous diseases, such as Hand-Schüller-Christian disease.
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Vermeer BJ, Mateysen AA, van Gent CM, van Sabben RM, Emeis JJ. The lipid composition and localization of free and esterified cholesterol in different types of xanthomas. J Invest Dermatol 1982; 78:305-8. [PMID: 7069209 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12507376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The lipid composition of 17 xanthomatous lesions from 16 patients with different types of hyperlipoproteinaemia was analyzed. The relative amounts of free cholesterol, cholesterolesters, and phospholipids in xanthomas obtained from patients who subsequently showed regression of their remaining type of xanthomas were different in comparison with xanthomas which did not show regression. One tendinous xanthoma contained more than 50% free cholesterol and resembled in lipid composition the gruel plaques found in atherosclerotic lesions. The relative amounts of free cholesterol, cholesterolesters, and phospholipids in regressing xanthomas were similar to those of fatty streaks found in arteries of children between the ages of 5-10 yr. Histochemical studies using an enzymatic method demonstrated that free and esterified cholesterol were located in focal areas of xanthomatous tissue. It is concluded that the physical state of lipids in xanthomatous lesions can vary remarkably and plays an important role with regard to the possibility of regression.
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