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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2010

Chromogranin B gene ablation reduces the catecholamine cargo and decelerates exocytosis in chromaffin secretory vesicles.

Jésica Díaz-Vera, Yézer G Morales, Juan R Hernández-Fernaud, Marcial Camacho, Mónica S Montesinos, Federico Calegari, Wieland B Huttner, Ricardo Borges, José D Machado

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. How intravesicular composition affects exocytosis.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2018
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  20. ATP: The crucial component of secretory vesicles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jésica Díaz-VeraUnit of Pharmacology, Medical School, La Laguna University, 38071 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Yézer G Morales
Juan R Hernández-Fernaud
Marcial Camacho
Mónica S Montesinos
Federico Calegari
Wieland B Huttner
Ricardo Borges
José D Machado
Max Planck Society · DEInstitute of Molecular Biology · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromogranins/secretogranins (Cgs) are the major soluble proteins of large dense-core secretory vesicles (LDCVs). We have recently reported that the absence of chromogranin A (CgA) caused important changes in the accumulation and in the exocytosis of catecholamines (CAs) using a CgA-knock-out (CgA-KO) mouse. Here, we have analyzed a CgB-KO mouse strain that can be maintained in homozygosis. These mice have 36% less adrenomedullary epinephrine when compared to Chgb(+/+) [wild type (WT)], whereas the norepinephrine content was similar. The total evoked release of CA was 33% lower than WT mice. This decrease was not due to a lower frequency of exocytotic events but to less secretion per quantum (approximately 30%) measured by amperometry; amperometric spikes exhibited a slower ascending but a normal decaying phase. Cell incubation with L-DOPA increased the vesicle CA content of WT but not of the CgB-KO cells. Intracellular electrochemistry, using patch amperometry, showed that L-DOPA overload produced a significantly larger increase in cytosolic CAs in cells from the KO animals than chromaffin cells from the WT. These data indicate that the mechanisms for vesicular accumulation of CAs in the CgB-KO cells were saturated, while there was ample capacity for further accumulation in WT cells. Protein analysis of LDCVs showed the overexpression of CgA as well as other proteins apparently unrelated to the secretory process. We conclude that CgB, like CgA, is a highly efficient system directly involved in monoamine accumulation and in the kinetics of exocytosis from LDCVs.

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Adrenal GlandsAnimalsCatecholaminesChromaffin CellsChromatography, High Pressure LiquidChromogranin BDopamine AgentsElectrochemistryElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalExocytosisLevodopaMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutSecretory VesiclesSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationCatecholaminesChromogranin BDopamine AgentsLevodopa

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PMID20089903
PMCPMC6633114
OpenAlexW2077736929

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