The role of vesicles in the transport of ferritin through frog endothelium

The Journal of Physiology
G Clough, C C Michel

Abstract

1. The transport of ferritin molecules by endothelial cell vesicles has been quantitatively investigated by electron microscopy. Single mesenteric capillaries of pithed frogs were perfused with solutions containing 6.7 g ferritin 100 ml.-1 for known periods before fixation in situ with osmium tetroxide. 2. Two series of experiments were carried out: in the first series the perfusate contained bovine serum albumin (1.0 g 100 ml.-1); in the second series the perfusate contained no protein other than the ferritin. To assess the molecular radius of ferritin in solution, the free diffusion coefficient of ferritin was measured in the presence and absence of albumin. 3. The free diffusion coefficient of ferritin in saline solution (110 m-mole 1.-1) was found to be 0.35 X 10(-6) cm2 sec-1 at 21 degrees C and was not affected by the presence of bovine serum albumin. This indicates that there is no significant binding of albumin to ferritin in solution and yields a value for the Stokes-Einstein radius of ferritin of 6.1 nm. 4. In all perfusion experiments the percentage of luminal vesicles containing ferritin exceeded the percentage of labelled cytoplasmic vesicles, which in turn exceeded the percentage of labelled abluminal vesicles. 5....Continue Reading

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