ROLE OF LYSOSOMES IN REGULATING OF VITELLOGENIN SECRETION IN THE MOSQUITO FAT-BODY
ROLE OF LYSOSOMES IN REGULATING OF VITELLOGENIN SECRETION IN THE MOSQUITO FAT-BODY
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-1910(86)90088-0
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发表时间:
1986-01-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
RAIKHEL, AS
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作者:
RAIKHEL, AS
Trophocytes of the mosquito fat body produce large amounts of the yolk-protein precursor, vitellogenin, that is then accumulated by developing oocytes. Vitellogenin synthesis is a highly regulated process and is turned on and off according to the stage of the reproductive cycle; it is maximal 27 h after blood feeding and then rapidly declines. Here, I report a new mechanism involved in cellular regulation of vitellogenin secretion, e.g. the lysosomal breakdown of vitellogenin. The activities of four lysosomal enzymes rose sharply about 30 h after blood-feeding and remained high for the next 12 h. Video-enhanced fluorescence, combined with visualization of vitellogenin by immunolabelling and of lysosomes by acridine orange, demonstrated that this intense lysosomal activity was directed toward the specific degradation of vitellogenin; the latter diminished in the cytoplasm and was concentrated in large lysosomes, only later did it disappear entirely from the trophocytes.