Abstract:
:The cholinergic presynaptic terminals of Torpedo electric organ have been examined morphometrically following stimulation by KCI and sucrose. The objective was to confirm correlations predicted by the vesicle hypothesis between miniature end-plate potentials (MEPPs) and morphometric changes in terminal ultrastructure. Both secretegogues generated high frequencies of MEPPs and also distinctive though differing ultrastructural changes. The synaptic vesicles show classes of 68 and 90 nm diameters and both store acetylcholine (ACh). KCl stimulation depleted the 90 nm class first whereas sucrose reversed the order of depletion. Very few instances of actual vesicle fusion were seen. Dose-response correlations between vesicle density and secretegogue strength (mM) and duration were higher with sucrose. Both secretegogues produced declines in vesicle numbers and densities and yielded multimodal distributions of large vesicles with an average 160 nm mean diameter. No meaningful correlations were detected between numbers of MEPPs and vesicles and little evidence was found to indicate that vesicles were fusing to terminal plasma membrane in numbers approximating MEPP release. Linear regression analysis was used to quantitatively examine relationships between the vesicle membrane pool and other pools of the putative exo/endocytotic pathway. Correlation coefficients between vesicle and terminal plasma membrane pools were non-significant and of positive sign, indicating independent, similar responses. Non-significant, negative coefficients were obtained when vacuole and 160 nm vesicle membrane values were included. These tests further argue against claims that vesicles are actively fusing with the plasma membrane. These conflicting findings for both secretegogues preclude meaningful correlations between vesicle changes and numbers of MEPPs generated and again emphasize the difficulty of validating the vesicle hypothesis by ultrastructural means. On the other hand, the study shows that vesicular, vacuolar and terminal membrane pools are dynamically changing during transmitter release, presumably interacting with cytosolic membrane constituents. A dynamical release process therefore has been proposed to account for the two classes of MEPPs, the rapid changes in class ratio and the mutable characteristics of the bell-MEPP that presently challenge the quantal-vesicular claims of prepackaged, immutable, exocytotically released packets of transmitter. This model features a state for each MEPP class with class and size determined at moment of release. For example, a single flicker of a channel would generate the sub-MEPP (defined subunit of an MEPP) and 7-20 flickering channels would generate the bell-MEPP.
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Brain Resjournal_title
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Fox GQ,Kriebel MEdoi
10.1016/s0006-8993(97)00109-1subject
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1997-04-25 00:00:00pages
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1872-6240pii
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