CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENDOPLASMIC-RETICULUM
CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENDOPLASMIC-RETICULUM
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DOI:
10.1083/jcb.109.5.2045
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发表时间:
1989-11-01
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
CHEN, LB
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作者:
LEE, C;FERGUSON, M;CHEN, LB
To study the construction of the ER, we used the microtubule-disrupting drug nocodazole to induce the complete breakdown of ER structure in living cells followed by recovery in drug-free medium, which regenerates the ER network within 15 min. Using the fluorescent dye 3,3''-dihexyloxacarbocxyanine ioidide to visualize the ER, we have directly observed the network construction process in living cells. In these experiments, the ER network was constructed through an iterative process of extension, branching, an intersection of ne ER tubules driven by the ER motility previously described as tubule branching. We have tested the cytoskeletal requirements of this process. We find that newly formed ER tubules are aligned with single microtubles but not actin fiber of vimentin intermediate filaments. Microtubule polymerization preceded the extenison of ER tubules and, in experiments with a variety of different drugs, appeared to be necessary condition for the ER network formation. Furthermore, perturbations of the pattern of microtubule polymerization with microtubule-specific drugs caused exactly correlated perturbations of the pattern of ER construction. Induction of abnormally short, nonintersecting microtubules with 20 .mu.M taxol prevented the ER network formation; ER tubules only entended along the few microtubules contacting the aggregated ER membranes. This requirement for a continuous network of intersecting microtubules indicates that ER network formation takes place through the branching and movement of ER membranes along microtubules. Cytochalsain B had no apparent effect on the construction of the ER network during recovery, despite apparently complete disruption of actin fibers as stained by phalloidin. Blockage of protein synthesis and disorganization of intermediate filaments with cycloheximide pretreatment also failed to perturb ER construction.