Ca2+- and Mg-ATP-dependent shape change of human erythrocyte ghosts and triton shells

Experimental Cell Research
Y JinbuS Tsukita

Abstract

Human erythrocyte membranes (ghosts) prepared from fresh blood changed in shape from spherical to crenated, when suspended in 10(-7)-10(-6) M Ca2+-EGTA buffers. Although the ghosts from long-stored ACD blood (10 weeks) were less sensitive to 10(-7)-10(-6) M Ca2+, the ghosts obtained from this blood after it had been preincubated with adenine and inosine for 3 h at 37 degrees C were highly sensitive to Ca2+. When these highly sensitive ghosts were incubated in 10 mM Tris-Cl buffer (pH 7.4) or 1 mM MgCl2 (pH 7.4) at 0 degrees C, they gradually lost Ca2+ sensitivity within 60 min, but they recovered Ca2+ sensitivity again after re-incubation with 2 mM Mg-ATP for 20 min at 37 degrees C followed by washing with 1 mM MgCl2 (pH 7.4). The shape of these highly Ca2+-sensitive ghosts immediately changed from crenate to disc on addition of 1 mM Mg-ATP even at 6 degrees C in the presence of 10(-7)-10(-6) M Ca2+. A similar shape change was also observed when ghosts treated with 0.5% Triton X-100 (Triton shells) were used. Triton shells from fresh blood ghosts or from long-stored blood ghosts which had been preincubated with 2 mM Mg-ATP for 20 min at 37 degrees C shrank immediately in the presence of 10(-6) M Ca2+ and then swelled on additio...Continue Reading

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