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Colchicine‐induced tubular, vesicular and cisternal organelle aggregates in absorptive cells of the small intestine of the rat. II.—Endocytosis studies
Author(s) -
Ellinger A.,
Pavelka M.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
biology of the cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1768-322X
pISSN - 0248-4900
DOI - 10.1111/j.1768-322x.1986.tb00486.x
Subject(s) - colchicine , vesicle , horseradish peroxidase , golgi apparatus , biology , endocytosis , microbiology and biotechnology , organelle , endocytic cycle , endosome , acid phosphatase , axoplasmic transport , biochemistry , cell , endoplasmic reticulum , membrane , enzyme , genetics
Administration of the antimicrotubular agent colchicine to adult rats (0.5 mg/100 g of body weight for 6 hr) induces formation of extended aggregates of tubular, vesicular, and cisternal organelles in the absorptive cells of the small intestine. The phosphatase reaction pattern (thiamine pyrophosphatase, acid phosphatase, acid trimetaphosphatase) suggests that the majority of them belongs to the lysosomal system (Ellinger and Pavelka, 1984). The present study extends these findings and examines the uptake and fate of intravenously injected horseradish peroxidase (HRP) at the basal and lateral cell surfaces and of intraluminally applied HRP at the apical cell surface. HRP, applied to control animals and animals pretreated with colchicine, was internalized at both apical and basolateral cell surfaces of the absorptive cells, and delivered into endosome‐like vesicles, multivesiculated bodies (mvbs), dense bodies (dbs), and in several instances into Golgi cisternae. Following intraluminal application, evidence was obtained for the transport of HRP across the cell; in contrast, intravenously applied HRP was never detected at the apical cell surface. Colchicine pretreatment did not stop the uptake of HRP, which was rapidly sequestered to the clustered tubules, vesicles, and cisternae, as well as to the mvbs and dbs. After longer intervals, the portion of HRP‐reactive tubules, vesicles, and cisternae within the clusters increased: 60 min after HRP‐administration all of them contained HRP‐activity. These results indicate that the colchicine‐induced clustered organelles are recipients of endocytic materials internalized at the apical as well as at the basolateral cell surface.