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J Struct Biol ; 202(1): 35-41, 2018 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29217280

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Polynoid worm elytra emit light when mechanically or electrically stimulated. Specialized cells, the photocytes, contain light emitting machineries, the photosomes. Successive stimulations induce light intensity variations and show a coupling within and between photosomes. Here, we describe, using electron tomography of cryo-substituted elytra and freeze-fracturing, the structural transition associated to light emission: undulating tubules come closer, organize and their number forming photosomes increases. Two repeating undulating tubules in opposite phase compose the photosome. Undulations are located on three hexagonal layers that regularly repeat and are equally displaced, in x y and z. The tubule membranes within layers merge giving rise to rings that tend to obey to quasi-rhombohedral symmetry. Merging may result either from close-association, hemifusion (one leaflet fusion) or from fusion (two leaflets fusion). Although the resolution of tomograms is not sufficient to distinguish these three cases, freeze-fracturing shows that hemifusion is a frequent process that leads to an reversible anastomosed membrane complex favoring communications, appearing as a major coupling factor of photosome light emission.


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Tomografía con Microscopio Electrónico/métodos , Membranas Intracelulares/metabolismo , Luz , Orgánulos/metabolismo , Poliquetos/metabolismo , Animales , Estimulación Eléctrica , Técnica de Fractura por Congelación/métodos , Membranas Intracelulares/ultraestructura , Orgánulos/ultraestructura , Poliquetos/citología , Poliquetos/ultraestructura
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J Cell Biol ; 191(1): 199-210, 2010 Oct 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20921141

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The entry of enveloped viruses into cells requires the fusion of viral and cellular membranes, driven by conformational changes in viral glycoproteins. Many studies have shown that fusion involves the cooperative action of a large number of these glycoproteins, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We used electron microscopy and tomography to study the low pH-induced fusion reaction catalyzed by vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (G). Pre- and post-fusion crystal structures were observed on virions at high and low pH, respectively. Individual fusion events with liposomes were also visualized. Fusion appears to be driven by two successive structural rearrangements of G at different sites on the virion. Fusion is initiated at the flat base of the particle. Glycoproteins located outside the contact zone between virions and liposomes then reorganize into regular arrays. We suggest that the formation of these arrays, which have been shown to be an intrinsic property of the G ectodomain, induces membrane constraints, achieving the fusion reaction.


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Fusión de Membrana/fisiología , Glicoproteínas de Membrana/fisiología , Virus de la Estomatitis Vesicular Indiana/patogenicidad , Proteínas Virales de Fusión/fisiología , Proteínas Virales/fisiología , Internalización del Virus , Cristalografía por Rayos X , Concentración de Iones de Hidrógeno , Liposomas/ultraestructura , Glicoproteínas de Membrana/química , Estructura Terciaria de Proteína , Virus de la Estomatitis Vesicular Indiana/metabolismo , Virus de la Estomatitis Vesicular Indiana/ultraestructura , Proteínas Virales de Fusión/química , Proteínas Virales/química , Virión/metabolismo , Virión/patogenicidad , Virión/ultraestructura
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