Membrane domains and macromolecular transport in intestinal epithelial cells.
Membrane domains and macromolecular transport in intestinal epithelial cells.
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肠上皮细胞的膜结构域和大分子运输。
DOI:
10.1164/ajrccm/138.6_pt_2.s10
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发表时间:
1988
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Kraehenbuhl,JP
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作者:
Neutra,MR;Wilson,JM;Weltzin,RA;Kraehenbuhl,JP
Epithelial cell plasma membranes are organized as biochemically and functionally distinct domains and subdomains. We have explored the composition and maintenance of specific membrane regions during endocytosis and transepithelial vesicular transport in specialized cells of the intestinal epithelium. A unique membrane glycoprotein has been identified in apical endocytic subdomains and endosomal tubules of absorptive cells in suckling rat ileum. This endocytic system is involved in sorting and transepithelial transport of peptide growth factors as well as delivery of milk macromolecules to Iysosomes. In M cells of follicle-associated epithelium, we have shown that membrane-bound proteins are efficiently transported to a specialized subdomain of basolateral membrane. The apical membranes of these cells bear immunoglobulin binding sites and transport monoclonallgA antibodies to the basolateral side, where they may interact with cells of the mucosal immune system. AM REV RE5PIR DI5 1988; 138: 510-516The plasma membranes of polarized epithelial cells are organized as two major domains separated by a belt-like intramembrane barrier, the tight junction. Dramatic differences in the protein composition of these domains have been documented in intestinal absorptive cells (1, 2), where a highly specialized apical domain faces the intestinal lumen while the basolateral domain is exposed to interstitial fluid. Recent studies on membrane protein sorting in cultured epithelial monolayers, primarily MDCK cells, indicate that maintenance of distinct domains depends not only on the junctional barrier but also on the interaction of basolateral surfaces with extracellular substrates (3-6). In addition to cellsubstrate contact, cell-cellcontacts appear to provide the intracellular organization necessary for correct delivery of vesicles containing apical membrane components to the noncontacting domain (7). The molecular features that may" address" intramembrane and secretory proteins to the two major domains are currently under study using molecular cloning and cell transfection methods and have been reviewed elsewhere (8-10). Less attention has been focused on the specialized membrane regions of distinct compositions that existwithin major domains. For example, the" basolateral" surface of a columnar epithelial cellincludes lateral surfaces that interact with adjacent epithelial cells and a basal surface that interacts with extracellular matrix (ECM) components of the basal lamina. Lateral membranes of some cells are known to be enriched in cell-cell adhesion molecules (II, 12), and basal surfaces are expected to contain a concentration of receptors for ECM. We have observed that in intestinal and other epithelial cells, Na, K-ATPase is concentrated primarily in lateral plasma membranes and is largely excluded from the basal subdomain (13). This intramembrane heterodimer associates with the submembrane cytoskeleton, and it has been suggested that this association may direct it to the basolateral domain and perhaps tether it in place (14). Specificmembrane-associated proteoglycans are also concentrated in the lateral subdomain of various epithelial cells (15). It is not known in what other respects these subdomains differ in composition or exactly how such differences are maintained in the absence of a junctional barrier between them.