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Function suggests nano-structure: towards a unified theory for secretion rate, a statistical mechanics approach.
Hammel, Ilan; Meilijson, Isaac.
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  • Hammel I; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel. ilanh@patholog.tau.ac.il
J R Soc Interface ; 10(88): 20130640, 2013 Nov 06.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24004560
ABSTRACT
The inventory of secretory granules along the plasma membrane can be viewed as maintained in two restricted compartments. The release-ready pool represents docked granules available for an initial stage of fast, immediate secretion, followed by a second stage of granule set-aside secretion pool, with significantly slower rate. Transmission electron microscopy ultra-structural investigations correlated with electrophysiological techniques and mathematical modelling have allowed the categorization of these secretory vesicle compartments, in which vesicles can be in various states of secretory competence. Using the above-mentioned approaches, the kinetics of single vesicle exocytosis can be worked out. The ultra-fast kinetics, explored in this study, represents the immediately available release-ready pool, in which granules bound to the plasma membrane are exocytosed upon Ca(2+) influx at the SNARE rosette at the base of porosomes. Formalizing Dodge and Rahamimoff findings on the effect of calcium concentration and incorporating the effect of SNARE transient rosette size, we postulate that secretion rate (rate), the number (X) of intracellular calcium ions available for fusion, calcium capacity (0 ≤ M ≤ 5) and the fusion nano-machine size (as measured by the SNARE rosette size K) satisfy the parsimonious M-K relation rate ≈ C × [Ca(2+)](min(X,M))e(-K/2).
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Vesículas Secretórias / Via Secretória / Modelos Biológicos Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Animals / Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Vesículas Secretórias / Via Secretória / Modelos Biológicos Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Animals / Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article