Abstract:
:A variety of peptide-secreting endocrine cells contain a population of recycling microvesicles that share several major membrane polypeptides with neuronal synaptic vesicles (SVs). The function of these synaptic-like microvesicles (SLMVs) remains to be elucidated. It was previously suggested that SLMVs of pancreatic beta cells may store and secrete gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). GABA, the major nonpeptide inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system, is stored in and secreted from SVs. GABA uptake into SVs is mediated by a transporter that is driven by a vacuolar proton ATPase. GABA is also present at high concentration in the endocrine pancreas where it is selectively localized in insulin-secreting beta cells, the core cells of pancreatic islets. GABA is not present in peripheral islet cells (mantle cells), represented primarily by glucagon-secreting alpha cells. In this study, an immunoisolation procedure was used to purify SLMVs from cell lines derived from mouse beta cells and alpha cells. SLMVs obtained from the beta-cell line, but not those obtained from the alpha-cell line, displayed a GABA-transport activity dependent upon a proton electrochemical gradient generated by a vacuolar proton ATPase. These data support the hypotheses that (i) SLMVs have a secretory function similar to that of SVs and (ii) beta-cell SLMVs are involved in the secretion of GABA, which in turn may have a paracrine function on mantle cells of the islet.
journal_name
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S Aauthors
Thomas-Reetz A,Hell JW,During MJ,Walch-Solimena C,Jahn R,De Camilli Pdoi
10.1073/pnas.90.11.5317subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-06-01 00:00:00pages
5317-21issue
11eissn
0027-8424issn
1091-6490journal_volume
90pub_type
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