CYTOPLASMIC REGULATION OF TIGHT-JUNCTION PERMEABILITY - EFFECT OF PLANT CYTOKININS
CYTOPLASMIC REGULATION OF TIGHT-JUNCTION PERMEABILITY - EFFECT OF PLANT CYTOKININS
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpcell.1980.239.3.c75
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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BENEDETTI, EL
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作者:
BENTZEL, CJ;HAINAU, B;BENEDETTI, EL
The significance of the leaky tight junction might be understood better if cells of the epithelial monolayer possessed mechanisms to regulate molecular flow through the junction. To test this possibility, Necturus gallbladder, a representative leaky epithelium, was studied before, during and after mucosal exposure to plant cytokinins [kinetin and zeatin] and 2 other microfilament-active drugs, cytochalasin B and phalloidin. Concomitant with morphological changes in microfilaments, cytokinins induced rapid reversible increases in transepithelial resistance and potential difference (PD) and decreases in NaCl dilution potentials, with no change in the ratio of relative cell membrane resistances. Cytochalasin B (0.2-1.2 .mu.M) and phalloidin (0.6-12.7 .mu.M) caused similar changes in transepithelial resistance and PD. When the intramembranous structure of tight junctions was studied by freeze fracture, peak cytokinin-induced increments in transepithelial resistance were associated with more disorder in the strand meshwork resulting in a small increase in tight junction depth, but there was no evidence of de novo strand assembly. Permeability of the tight junction of Necturus gallbladder apparently is subject to rapid reversible modulation, possibly under cytoskeletal control.