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Fan Z, Deckel Y, Lowe LA, Loo DWK, Yomo T, Szostak JW, Nisler C, Wang A. Lipid Exchange Promotes Fusion of Model Protocells. SMALL METHODS 2023; 7:e2300126. [PMID: 37246261 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202300126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Vesicle fusion is an important process underlying cell division, transport, and membrane trafficking. In phospholipid systems, a range of fusogens including divalent cations and depletants have been shown to induce adhesion, hemifusion, and then full content fusion between vesicles. This work shows that these fusogens do not perform the same function for fatty acid vesicles, which are used as model protocells (primitive cells). Even when fatty acid vesicles appear adhered or hemifused to each other, the intervening barriers between vesicles do not rupture. This difference is likely because fatty acids have a single aliphatic tail, and are more dynamic than their phospholipid counterparts. To address this, it is postulated that fusion could instead occur under conditions, such as lipid exchange, that disrupt lipid packing. Using both experiments and molecular dynamics simulations, it is verified that fusion in fatty acid systems can indeed be induced by lipid exchange. These results begin to probe how membrane biophysics could constrain the evolutionary dynamics of protocells.
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- Ziyan Fan
- School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, UNSW RNA Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, UNSW RNA Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, UNSW RNA Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, UNSW RNA Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Laboratory of Biology and Information Science, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, P. R. China
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- School of Chemistry, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, UNSW RNA Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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Ca2+-dependent secretion is a process by which important signaling molecules that are produced within a cell-including proteins and neurotransmitters-are expelled to the extracellular environment. The cellular mechanism that underlies secretion is referred to as exocytosis. Many years of work have revealed that exocytosis in neurons and neuroendocrine cells is tightly coupled to Ca2+ and orchestrated by a series of protein-protein/protein-lipid interactions. Here, we highlight landmark discoveries that have informed our current understanding of the process. We focus principally on reductionist studies performed using powerful model secretory systems and cell-free reconstitution assays. In recent years, molecular cloning and genetics have implicated the involvement of a sizeable number of proteins in exocytosis. We expect reductionist approaches will be central to attempts to resolve their roles. The Journal of General Physiology will continue to be an outlet for much of this work, befitting its tradition of publishing strongly mechanistic, basic research.
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- Arun Anantharam
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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Lamblet M, Delord B, Johannes L, van Effenterre D, Bassereau P. Key role of receptor density in colloid/cell specific interaction: a quantitative biomimetic study on giant vesicles. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2008; 26:205-216. [PMID: 18480963 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2007-10317-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2007] [Accepted: 03/19/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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This paper presents an experimental study of the adsorption of colloids on model membranes mediated by specific ligand-receptor interactions. The colloids consist of lipid multilamellar liposomes (spherulites) functionalized with the B-subunit of Shiga Toxin (STxB), while the membranes are lipid Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV) containing STxB lipid receptor, Globotriaosylceramide (Gb3). Through confocal microscopy and flow cytometry, we show the specificity of the adsorption. Moreover, we show that flow cytometry can be used to efficiently quantify the kinetics of colloid adsorption on GUVs with very good statistics. By varying the bulk colloid concentration and receptor density in the membrane, we point out the existence of an optimum Gb3 density for adsorption. We propose that this optimum corresponds to a transition between reversible colloid adsorption at low Gb3 density and irreversible adsorption, and likely spherulite fusion, at high density. We compare our results both to STxB-colloids adhering on living cells and to free STxB proteins interacting with GUVs containing Gb3. This biomimetic system could be used for a quantitative evaluation of the early stage of virus infection or drug delivery.
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- M Lamblet
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Paris, France
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Walde P, Ichikawa S. Enzymes inside lipid vesicles: preparation, reactivity and applications. BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING 2001; 18:143-77. [PMID: 11576871 DOI: 10.1016/s1389-0344(01)00088-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 439] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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There are a number of methods that can be used for the preparation of enzyme-containing lipid vesicles (liposomes) which are lipid dispersions that contain water-soluble enzymes in the trapped aqueous space. This has been shown by many investigations carried out with a variety of enzymes. A review of these studies is given and some of the main results are summarized. With respect to the vesicle-forming amphiphiles used, most preparations are based on phosphatidylcholine, either the natural mixtures obtained from soybean or egg yolk, or chemically defined compounds, such as DPPC (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) or POPC (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine). Charged enzyme-containing lipid vesicles are often prepared by adding a certain amount of a negatively charged amphiphile (typically dicetylphosphate) or a positively charged lipid (usually stearylamine). The presence of charges in the vesicle membrane may lead to an adsorption of the enzyme onto the interior or exterior site of the vesicle bilayers. If (i) the high enzyme encapsulation efficiencies; (ii) avoidance of the use of organic solvents during the entrapment procedure; (iii) relatively monodisperse spherical vesicles of about 100 nm diameter; and (iv) a high degree of unilamellarity are required, then the use of the so-called 'dehydration-rehydration method', followed by the 'extrusion technique' has shown to be superior over other procedures. In addition to many investigations in the field of cheese production--there are several studies on the (potential) medical and biomedical applications of enzyme-containing lipid vesicles (e.g. in the enzyme-replacement therapy or for immunoassays)--including a few in vivo studies. In many cases, the enzyme molecules are expected to be released from the vesicles at the target site, and the vesicles in these cases serve as the carrier system. For (potential) medical applications as enzyme carriers in the blood circulation, the preparation of sterically stabilized lipid vesicles has proven to be advantageous. Regarding the use of enzyme-containing vesicles as submicrometer-sized nanoreactors, substrates are added to the bulk phase. Upon permeation across the vesicle bilayer(s), the trapped enzymes inside the vesicles catalyze the conversion of the substrate molecules into products. Using physical (e.g. microwave irradiation) or chemical methods (e.g. addition of micelle-forming amphiphiles at sublytic concentration), the bilayer permeability can be controlled to a certain extent. A detailed molecular understanding of these (usually) submicrometer-sized bioreactor systems is still not there. There are only a few approaches towards a deeper understanding and modeling of the catalytic activity of the entrapped enzyme molecules upon externally added substrates. Using micrometer-sized vesicles (so-called 'giant vesicles') as simple models for the lipidic matrix of biological cells, enzyme molecules can be microinjected inside individual target vesicles, and the corresponding enzymatic reaction can be monitored by fluorescence microscopy using appropriate fluorogenic substrate molecules.
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- P Walde
- Institut für Polymere, ETH-Zentrum, Universitätstrasse 6, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Fray JC. Regulation of renin secretion by calcium and chemiosmotic forces: (patho) physiological considerations. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1097:243-62. [PMID: 1742329 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4439(91)90078-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- J C Fray
- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655
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Sulzer D, Holtzman E. Acidification and endosome-like compartments in the presynaptic terminals of frog retinal photoreceptors. JOURNAL OF NEUROCYTOLOGY 1989; 18:529-40. [PMID: 2478669 PMCID: PMC7089201 DOI: 10.1007/bf01474548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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By using the 'acidotropic' vital dye, Acridine Orange, we have found that the presynaptic terminals of rod and cone photoreceptors in retinas of Rana pipiens maintain a low pH relative to the surrounding medium through an energy dependent mechanism. When this pH is raised, by exposing the retinas to weak bases like ammonium chloride, the terminals exhibit large, membrane-delimited compartments, many of which accumulate endocytic tracers. This effect is partly reversed when the weak bases are removed. We infer that among the acidified structures within the terminals are endocytic compartments with at least some of the characteristics of the endosomes that participate in receptor-mediated endocytosis in other cell types. One role of these structures in the terminals may be in the recycling of synaptic vesicles.
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- D Sulzer
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York 10027
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Chernomordik LV, Melikyan GB, Chizmadzhev YA. Biomembrane fusion: a new concept derived from model studies using two interacting planar lipid bilayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 906:309-52. [PMID: 3307918 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(87)90016-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- L V Chernomordik
- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow
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A new liposome fusion assay has been developed that monitors the mixing of aqueous contents at neutral and low pH. With this assay we have investigated the ability of H+ to induce membrane destabilization and fusion. The assay involves the fluorophore 1-aminonaphthalene-3,6,8-trisulfonic acid (ANTS) and its quencher N,N'-p-xylylenebis(pyridinium bromide) (DPX). ANTS is encapsulated in one population of liposomes and DPX in another, and fusion results in the quenching of ANTS fluorescence. The results obtained with the ANTS/DPX assay at neutral pH give kinetics for the Ca2+-induced fusion of phosphatidylserine large unilamellar vesicles (PS LUV) that are very similar to those obtained with the Tb3+/dipicolinic acid (DPA) assay [Wilschut, J., & Papahadjopoulos, D. (1979) Nature (London) 281, 690-692]. ANTS fluorescence is relatively insensitive to pH between 7.5 and 4.0. Below pH 4.0 the assay can be used semiquantitatively by correcting for quenching of ANTS due to protonation. For PS LUV it was found that, at pH 2.0, H+ by itself causes mixing of aqueous contents, which makes H+ unique among the monovalent cations. We have shown previously that H+ causes a contact-induced leakage from liposomes composed of phosphatidylethanolamine and the charged cholesteryl ester cholesteryl hemisuccinate (CHEMS) at pH 5.0 or below, where CHEMS becomes protonated. Here we show that H+ causes lipid mixing in this pH range but not mixing of aqueous contents. This result affirms the necessity of using both aqueous space and lipid bilayer assays to comprehend the fusion event between two liposomes.
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Hoekstra D. Kinetics of intermixing of lipids and mixing of aqueous contents during vesicle fusion. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(82)90517-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Miller DC, Dahl GP. Early events in calcium-induced liposome fusion. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1982; 689:165-9. [PMID: 7104348 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(82)90201-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Calcium-induced interaction of liposomes composed of pure phosphatidylserine (PS) has been studied using a rapid-mixing, rapid-freeze device. Freeze-fracture electron microscopy of this material revealed that liposomes react very rapidly after addition of calcium ions. After only 10 ms (the resolution of the technique) vesicle fusion was apparent. At the same time, however, vesicles also collapsed, and appeared as aggregates of flattened membranes. This may explain controversies which have arisen over vesicle fusion studied with more indirect methods.
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Covarrubias M, Tapia R. A procedure for detecting changes in the internal Ca2+ concentration in isolated nerve endings using the metallochromic dye arsenazo III. Neuroscience 1982; 7:1641-6. [PMID: 6181431 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(82)90022-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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A method for detecting changes in the internal concentration of Ca2+ in synaptosomes from mouse brain is described. Synaptosomes were fused with phosphatidylcholine-phosphatidylserine unilamellar liposomes previously loaded with the metalochromic, Ca2+ -sensitive dye arsenazo III, in order to introduce the dye into the synaptosomes. The fusion was promoted by La3+. Changes in the differential absorption between 660 and 690 nm, which indicate changes in Ca2+ concentration, were followed in a double beam spectrophotometer. It was found that both in the dye-loaded liposomes and in the fused synaptosomes, the addition of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 to the medium containing Ca2+ produced a notable change in the differential absorbance 660-690 nm. When the depolarizing alkaloid veratridine was added, there was no response in the liposomes, whereas a change in the differential absorbance 660-690 nm was detected in the fused synaptosomes containing arsenazo but only when Na+ was present in the medium. These fused synaptosomes were able to release labeled gamma-aminobutyric acid as a response to veratridine, in a Na+ -dependent manner, similarly to control non-fused synaptosomes. These results demonstrate the feasibility of fusion to introduce Ca2+ -sensitive dyes into isolated nerve endings from the mammalian brain and therefore to detect changes in their internal Ca2+ concentration.
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Bruni A, Palatini P. Biological and pharmacological properties of phospholipids. PROGRESS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 1982; 19:111-203. [PMID: 6758038 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6468(08)70329-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Matthews BF, Cress DE. Liposome-mediated delivery of DNA to carrot protoplasts. PLANTA 1981; 153:90-94. [PMID: 24276711 DOI: 10.1007/bf00385322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/1981] [Accepted: 07/17/1981] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The encapsulation of DNA within liposomes and subsequent fusion of the liposomes with carrot (Daucus carota L.) protoplasts were examined to determine optimum conditions for effective liposome-mediated delivery of DNA to protoplasts. Escherichia coli [(3)H]DNA could be encapsulated with 50% efficiency using encapsulation volumes as low as 0.5 ml. Incorporation of liposome-encapsulated [(3)H]DNA by carrot protoplasts increased linearly for 2.5 h, and increasing the ratio of protoplasts to liposomes increased the total amount of radioactive label incorporated within the protoplasts. Liposome-mediated incorporation of [(3)H]DNA by protoplasts increased over a range of polyethylene glycol concentrations up to 20%, but Ca(2+) did not increase liposome-mediated incorporation when present in the liposome-protoplast incubation mixture. Optimum incorporation was observed when the pH of the liposome-protoplast incubation medium was decreased to 4.8. Encapsulation experiments using DNA of the plasmid pBR322 indicated that an average of 200-1,000 intact copies of pBR322 were sequestered within each nucleus after liposome delivery.
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- B F Matthews
- Cell Culture and Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, Plant Physiology Institute, Agricultural Research, Science and Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 20705, Beltsville, MD, USA
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Ekerdt R, Dahl G, Gratzl M. Membrane fusion of secretory vesicles and liposomes. Two different types of fusion. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1981; 646:10-22. [PMID: 6791690 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(81)90265-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Carson SD, Konigsberg WH. Coagulation factor III (tissue factor) interaction with phospholipid vesicles induced by cadmium: characterization of the reconstituted protein-membrane complex. Biosci Rep 1981; 1:197-205. [PMID: 7295892 DOI: 10.1007/bf01114905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Coagulation factor III (tissue factor) is a membrane glycoprotein which serves as a cofactor in the proteolytic activation of factor X and factor IX by factor VIIa. Mixing of human placental factor III apoprotein with vesicles of bovine brain phospholipids does not produce significant reconstitution of factor III activity, but, when the mixture of apoprotein and vesicles is made 5 mM with CdCl2, the apoprotein is incorporated into the vesicles. Ultracentrifugation on sucrose density gradients demonstrated that the active factor III-lipid complex formed by reconstitution with vesicles had a density indistinguishable from that of the complex formed by detergent dialysis. Vesicles isolated after centrifugation were shown to range in diameter from 20 nm to over 100 nm using the electron microscope. Gel filtration showed that factor-III activity was associated with all size-classes of vesicles. The presence of factor III activity in the smallest vesicles argues for a specific cadmium-mediated reconstitution of the apoprotein with phospholipid vesicles.
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Wilschut J, Düzgüneş N, Fraley R, Papahadjopoulos D. Studies on the mechanism of membrane fusion: kinetics of calcium ion induced fusion of phosphatidylserine vesicles followed by a new assay for mixing of aqueous vesicle contents. Biochemistry 1980; 19:6011-21. [PMID: 7470445 DOI: 10.1021/bi00567a011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 398] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We describe an assay for following the mixing of aqueous contents during fusion of phospholipid vesicles. Terbium is encapsulated as the Tb(citrate)3(6-) chelation complex in one population of vesicles, dipicolinic acid (DPA) in another. Vesicle fusion results in the formation of the fluorescent Tb(DPA)3(3-) chelation complex. The presence of EDTA (0.1 mM) and Ca2+ (greater than 1 mM) prevents the formation of the Tb/DPA complex in the external medium. We have studied the Ca2+-induced fusion of small or large unilamellar vesicles (SUV or LUV, respectively) composed of phosphatidylserine (PS). In addition, vesicle aggregation was monitored by light scattering, and release of vesicle contents was followed by carboxyfluorescein (CF) fluorescence enhancement. The addition of Ca2+ induced an immediate enhancement in Tb fluorescence with both SUV and LUV, which occurs on the same time scale as aggregation but much faster than the release of CF. The release of contents from LUV occurs with a considerable delay. It is estimated that the initial fusion of SUV is accompanied by 10% leakage of the internal volume per fusion event; in contrast, fusion of LUV is essentially nonleaky. Massive release of vesicle contents appears to be a secondary phenomenon related to the collapse of fused vesicles. The initial rate and the extent of Tb fluorescence enhancement are markedly dependent on the Ca2+ concentration. Threshold Ca2+ concentrations are 1.2 and 2.4 mM for SUV nd LUV, respectively. At saturating Ca2+ concentrations (greater than 10 mM), the rate of fusion of LUV is slightly lower than that of SUV at the same vesicle concentration. At any Ca2+ concentration, the rates of both SUV and LUV fusion are consistent with vesicle aggregation being rate limiting. When measured at a subsaturating Ca2+ concentration, fusion is essentially second order over a wide range of relatively low vesicle concentrations, whereas at higher vesicle concentrations the order is decreased. This suggests that at high vesicle concentrations (and at relatively low Ca2+ concentrations) aggregation may proceed faster than fusion.
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Sunamoto J, Hamada T, Murase H. Liposomal Membranes. IV. Fusion of Liposomal Membranes Induced by Several Lipophilic Agents. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 1980. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.53.2773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Hampton R, Holz R, Goldstein I. Phospholipid, glycolipid, and ion dependencies of concanavalin A- and Ricinus communis agglutinin I-induced agglutination of lipid vesicles. J Biol Chem 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)43638-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Sunamoto J, Iwamoto K, Kondo H. Liposomal membranes. VII. Fusion and aggregation of egg lecithin liposomes as promoted by polysaccharides. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1980; 94:1367-73. [PMID: 6156681 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(80)90570-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Carson SD, Konigsberg WH. Cadmium increases tissue factor (coagulation factor III) activity by facilitating its reassociation with lipids. Science 1980; 208:307-9. [PMID: 7367861 DOI: 10.1126/science.7367861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The coagulant activity of partially purified and delipidated tissue factor (TF) (coagulation Factor III) has previously been recovered by dialysis of the apoprotein after addition of mixed brain lipids and deoxycholate. Inclusion of cadmium chloride in the relipidation mixture greatly increases the recovered activity of highly purified TF from human placenta by promoting incorporation of TF into phospholipid vesicles; TF that had not been incorporated into vesicles showed no coagulant activity. Thus, TF must be present in a lipid bilayer for expression of coagulant activity. In vitro, cadmium induces fusion of lipid vesicles and may contribute to the incorporation of proteins in membranes.
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Hoekstra D, Yaron A, Carmel A, Scherphof G. Fusion of phospholipid vesicles containing a trypsin-sensitive fluorogenic substrate and trypsin: a new method to study membrane fusion activity in a model system. FEBS Lett 1979; 106:176-80. [PMID: 499492 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(79)80722-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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