Dynamics of the holes in human erythrocyte membrane ghosts.
Dynamics of the holes in human erythrocyte membrane ghosts.
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10.1016/s0021-9258(18)33813-4
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1982-10
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M. Lieber;T. Steck
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M. Lieber;T. Steck
RESULTSEffect of Hemolysis Buffer on Hole Size-It appears from micrographs of cells fixed during osmotic lysis that the hemolytic hole is transiently quite large, exceeding 1 pm in radius (4-7). Since ghosts prepared by hemolysis and washed in 5 mM NaPi (pH 8.0), 10~ LM MgS04 typically have holes of 140 A (I), they must recover rapidly and nearly completely from the osmotic stress. We therefore asked what parameters determine the hole radius at rest. In a representative experiment, red cells were suspended in 40 volumes of various hypotonic buffers at 0 “C, allowed to stand for 15 min, and ghost hole sue assayed immediately. Hemolysis in 5 m NaPi (pH 8) created a mean hole radius of 56 8.(Repeated washing of the ghosts in this buffer enlarges the hole size to 100-150 A.) Increasing the osmotic activity of the lysis medium to 60 mosm by the addition of 45 m sucrose produced ghosts with a hole radius of 52 A, an insignificant change. Lysis at the same osmotic activity in 20 mM Nap,(pH 8) brought the hole radius to 18 A. Hemolysis in 5 m Nap, at pH 6 (10 mosm) produced a mean hole radius of 20 A. The presence of 300 lll~ glycerol in the hemolysis buffer did not alter hole size. We have also observed that gradual hemolysis by dialysis produced holes of identical size with those caused by rapid dilution into 5 mM Nap,(1). We conclude that the ionic strength and pH of the lysis buffer rather than its osmotic activity determined hole size. We therefore explored these ionic parameters in further detail. Effect of Cations and Anions on Hole Size-It has long been known that the permeability of ghosts to macromolecules can be reversed in a temperature, salt, and pH-sensitive fashion (8-14). We have shown that the kinetic course of sealing represents a gradual closure of the single hole in each ghost (1). Two features of this process were further investigated: the initial rate of change of hole size and the final (plateau) hole sue achieved following prolonged incubation. Washed ghosts were suspended in warm solutions of varied NaCl concentration and the hole radius followed until it stabilized (see Fig. 10 of Ref. 1). As shown in Fig. 1, the plateau radius typically decreased from> lo0 8, in 5 II~ M NaPi to reach a minimum near 20 8, in the presence of 50 mM Na’.