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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 105, Issue 2 333-345, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
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AK Rajasekaran, T Morimoto, DK Hanzel, E Rodriguez-Boulan and G Kreibich
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021.
A striking reorganization of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) from a tubulo-vesicular (TV-RER) to a stacked cisternal (SC-RER) configuration was observed when the secretory activity of AR42J cells, a cell line derived from a rat pancreatic acinar carcinoma, was induced by dexamethasone. Treatment with 10 nM dexamethasone resulted in a 6.6-fold increase in the intracellular and a 4.6-fold increase in the secreted amylase activity, respectively. On the basis of the morphometric analysis of thin-section electron micrographs it has been previously reported that this increase in secretory activity is accompanied by a 2.4-fold or 30-fold increase in the size of the RER. We have developed a new biochemical method to determine the size of the RER by quantifying the membrane-bound ribosomes. Using this procedure we did not detect any change in the size of the RER after induction of an active secretory state in AR42J cells. Electron microscopic observation showed the predominance of SC-RER in dexamethasone-treated cells compared to the abundance of TV-RER in control cells. Laser scanning confocal microscopy showed a patchy distribution of ER staining in dexamethasone-treated cells compared to more basal localization in control cells. On the basis of our observations we conclude that in AR42J cells the increase in secretory activity induced by dexamethasone is accompanied by a reorganization of the RER rather than by an increase in ER surface area, as reported by others. Our results suggest that SC-RER is a biosynthetically more efficient form of the RER, which is found predominantly in actively secreting cells.
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