Hydrophobic ion transfer between membranes of adjacent hepatocytes: a possible probe of tight junction structure.

Abstract:

:The topology of the tight junction is probed by introducing dipicrylamine (dpa-), a lipid-soluble anion, into the membranes of hepatocyte pairs in culture. Once partitioned into the membrane, dpa- ions are free to move in the hydrophobic core of the membrane, where their mobile charges greatly increase membrane capacitance. If tight junctions are lines of membrane fusion, dpa- will cross the tight junction without traversing a polar headgroup layer. Furthermore, the electric potential across the tight junction will be equal to the difference in membrane potentials of the two cells. dpa- can therefore be expected to move electrophoretically from cell membrane to cell membrane across the junction in response to an intercellular voltage difference. Experiments performed under double whole-cell clamp show that this transfer occurs as follows: First, dpa- causes an intercellular current unrelated to gap junctions to flow in response to an intercellular voltage difference. Second, this electrophoretic removal or addition of dpa- from a cell's membrane through the tight junction must reduce or increase its dpa- content and thus its capacitance. Experiments confirm this prediction: We detect rapid, symmetric, and reversible changes in membrane capacitance in response to changes in the membrane potential of the neighboring cell. Finally, we find that hepatocyte membranes contain a negatively charged endogenous molecule that contain a negatively charged endogenous molecule that can move from cell to cell like dpa- under the influence of an intercellular potential difference. We conclude that membrane fusion occurs at tight junctions and that this hydrophobic intercellular pathway can play a role in intercellular communication.

authors

Turin L,Béhé P,Plonsky I,Dunina-Barkovskaya A

doi

10.1073/pnas.88.20.9365

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-10-15 00:00:00

pages

9365-9

issue

20

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

88

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